Warmest December greetings! AI technology and its impacts splashed around the world last week, here’s a fast (10:52) review of new developments, including: Nvidia H200 exports to China ….
HPC News Bytes 20251215: On-Off-On GPU Exports to China, the US-China Power Gap, Pocket-Sized HPC, Regulating AI
December 15, 2025 by
Sandia’s Newest and Least Conventional Supercomputer Takes the Stage
December 8, 2025 by
Sandia National Laboratories has announced the arrival of its newest most unconventional supercomputer. Designed through a collaboration between Sandia and NextSilicon, the “Spectra” prototype ….
HPC News Bytes 20251208: Marvell’s Celestial AI-Optical I/O Buy, ASML’s U.S. EUV Laser Competitor, HPC and Parkinson’s Research at SDSC
December 8, 2025 by
A good December day to you! The world of HPC-AI generated a notably colorful array of developments last week, here’s a quick (9:12) run-through of recent news: Marvell in AI with Celestial AI ….
Report: AI Back-End Networks Continue Shift to Ethernet
December 5, 2025 by
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – Dec. 5, 2025 – According to a recently published report from industry analyst firm Dell’Oro Group, Ethernet accounted for more than two-thirds of data center switch sales in AI back-end networks both during the quarter and across the first three quarters of the year — up from less than half in […]
The Infrastructure Revolution for AI Factories
December 4, 2025 by
Organizations risk being held back not by their compute power but by access to the data needed to fuel it. When input/output performance falls short or data orchestration can’t keep GPUs continuously supplied with data ….
Vultr and AMD Expand AI Supercluster Collaboration
December 4, 2025 by
West Palm Beach, FL. – Dec. 4, 2025 – Vultr, a privately-held cloud infrastructure company, today announced an expansion of its AI workload collaboration with AMD (NASDAQ: AMD). Vultr will launch an AI supercluster, powered by AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs deployed in its new Springfield, Ohio cloud data center. This 50 MW expansion delivers unprecedented performance […]
ZincFive Raises $30M for AI Data Center Batteries
December 4, 2025 by
PORTLAND, Oregon — Dec. 4, 2025 — ZincFive, the a nickel-zinc (NiZn) battery-based company, today announced it has closed an oversubscribed $30 million Series F funding round. With this funding, the company has raised $254 million since its founding in 2016 and now intends to scale its commercial footprint and manufacturing capacity to meet accelerating […]
Study: 6% of AI Managers Say Their Data Infrastructure Is AI Ready
December 3, 2025 by
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Dec. 3, 2025 – Only 6 percen t of enterprise AI leaders say their data infrastructure is fully ready for AI: a readiness gap that has become one of the biggest constraints on AI progress. That’s a central finding of CData Software’s new report, The State of AI Data Connectivity: 2026 Outlook, which draws […]
DOE Funds $800M, Selects TVA and Holtec for Deployment of Small Modular Reactors
December 2, 2025 by
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the selection of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and Holtec Government Services to support early deployments of advanced light-water small modular reactors (SMRs) in the United States. The project teams will receive up to $800 million in federal cost-shared funding to advance initial projects in Tennessee and […]
Fermi America and MVM EGI Announce Cooling Agreement for 11GW Energy Grid in West Texas
December 1, 2025 by
AMARILLO, Texas, Dec. 1, 2025 — Fermi America (Nasdaq: FRMI), in partnership with the Texas Tech University System, today announced it has signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding with MVM EGI Zrt., a hybrid dry–wet cooling company, to develop a cooling system for Fermi’s 11-gigawatt private energy grid campus. Under the non-binding MOU, Fermi America […]
