HPC News Bytes 20251020: Exascale Day!, Happy 50th and 100th to you Seymour Cray, City-Sized AI Supercomputers, HPC-Quantum Integration

A good autumnal morning to you! The future and the past of HPC-AI is much on our minds today as we observe great deeds done and ….

AMD Showcases ‘Helios’ Rack-Scale Platform on the OCP Open Rack Wide Spec

Today at the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit in San Jose, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) showcased a static display of its “Helios” rack scale platform for the first time. Developed based on the new Open Rack Wide (ORW) specification, introduced by Meta, AMD said Helios extends the AMD open hardware philosophy from silicon to system […]

OpenAI and Broadcom to Deploy 10 GW of OpenAI-Designed AI Accelerators

When it comes to AI compute, the big cloud platform providers are chip-agnostic, adopting processors from the big chip companies (mostly NVIDIA) along with their own custom-designed GPUs ….

Flex Announces Platform for AI Infrastructure Deployment

SAN JOSE — Oct. 13, 2025 — Flex (NASDAQ: FLEX) today announced what is said is the first integrated platform designed for gigawatt data centers supporting AI and HPC. By uniting power, cooling, compute, and Flex’s global services into pre-engineered, modular reference designs for data centers, the new infrastructure platform enables operators to deploy infrastructure […]

@HPCpodcast: Silicon Photonics – An Update from Prof. Keren Bergman on a Potentially Transformational Technology for Data Center Chips

In this episode of the @HPCpodcast, sponsored by CoolIT, we catch up with optical I/O expert and repeat guest ….

HPC News Bytes 20251013: AMD’s Big OpenAI Deal, Intel’s New 2nm Server CPU from Fab 52, SC25 Coming Up

A good mid-October day to you! As news weeks go in the HPC-AI world last week was quite something, led by what may come to be regarded as one of the biggest news ….

Infineon to Support for 800 Volt AI Data Center Power Architecture Announced by NVIDIA

Munich and Santa Clara, CA – 13 Oct. 2025 – Infineon Technologies AG (FSE: IFX / OTCQX: IFNNY) supports the 800 Volt direct current (VDC) power architecture announced by NVIDIA at Computex 2025 for AI infrastructure. The exponential growth of artificial intelligence is rapidly outstripping the capacity of the current 54 V data center power […]

Intel Announces 18A-based 2nm Clearwater Forest Server CPU from Fab 52 in Arizona

Intel today unveiled its most advanced semiconductor process and previewed Xeon 6+ (code-named Clearwater Forest), its first Intel 18A-based 2nm data center server chip ….

Honeywell and LS Electric in Partnership for Data Centers and Battery Energy Storage

CHARLOTTE, N.C., Oct. 8, 2025 — Honeywell (NASDAQ: HON) today announced a global strategic collaboration with LS ELECTRIC (KRX:010120) to jointly develop hardware and software solutions that simplify the power management and distribution for data centers, helping improve operational efficiency and resiliency. By combining LS ELECTRIC’s experience in power systems with Honeywell’s building automation and controls, data […]

What the OpenAI Deal Means for AMD in AI Factory Compute

Of all the days since the last “AMD winter” (i.e., sometime before Lisa Su took over as CEO in 2014), yesterday is among the most memorable and, the company believes, significant (perhaps it’s time to put to rest recollections ….