xMEMS Raises $21M Series D

Santa Clara, CA – October 30, 2025 – xMEMS Labs, Inc., the inventor of the world’s first piezoelectric MEMS (piezoMEMS) µCooling fan-on-a-chip thermal management solution and the leader in solid-state silicon speakers, today announced the closing of a $21 million Series D funding round. The round was led by Boardman Bay Capital Management (BBCM), with […]

Supermicro Expands Collaboration with NVIDIA

SAN JOSE and WASHINGTON, Oct. 28, 2025 — Super Micro Computer, Inc. (SMCI), an AI/ML, HPC, cloud, storage and 5G/Edge company, is showcasing its advanced AI infrastructure solutions at NVIDIA GTC in Washington, D.C. this week, highlighting systems tailored for federal customers. Supermicro announced its plans to deliver NVIDIA AI platforms, including the NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL144 and […]

Accelerating Breakthroughs in Higher Education & Research with NVIDIA RTX PRO™ 6000 Blackwell Server Edition

NVIDIA RTX PRO™ 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, accelerated by the groundbreaking NVIDIA Blackwell architecture, delivers unparalleled GPU accelerated performance and energy ….

Flex to Collaborate with NVIDIA on Giga-Scale AI Factories

WASHINGTON, D.C.— October 28, 2025 – Flex (NASDAQ: FLEX) today announced it is supporting the development of modular data center systems with NVIDIA. The collaboration will leverage Flex’s advanced manufacturing capabilities and footprint to deliver high-performance, energy-efficient AI factories at scale, with an emphasis on meeting growing infrastructure demands in the U.S. “Flex is at […]

HPC News Bytes 20251027: Quantum Advantage and Government Investments, an HPC Systems Startup Delivers Update

Quantum computing has very much been in the news of late, along with an interesting high-precision HPC architecture from an Israeli startup. Here’s a not-so-fast (11:12) run-through of recent ….

NextSilicon Says Maverick-2 Chip Delivers up to 10x Boost at Half the Power

The intriguing startup NextSilicon, which has generated attention in HPC and other advanced computing markets since its founding in 2017, today disclosed architecture and performance ….

Achieving AI Scale-Up Supremacy with Co-Packaged Optics

AI architectures are approaching an inflection point, and that is why a new generation of scale-up architectures is needed. Enabling thousands of XPUs to operate as one massive chip for trillion-parameter AI models ….

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 ….

DOE Announces Fusion Power Roadmap, Including HPC and AI Strategy

Oct. 17, 2025 — The U.S. Department of Energy released its Fusion Science and Technology (FS&T) Roadmap, a national strategy to accelerate the development and commercialization of fusion energy on the most rapid, responsible timeline in history. The Roadmap defines DOE’s Build–Innovate–Grow strategy to align public investment and private innovation to deliver commercial fusion power […]

Air Force Issues Call for Proposals for AI Data Centers

Oct. 17, 2025 — The U.S. Department of the Air Force announced it is accepting proposals for the development of artificial intelligence data centers . The Air Force said projects must include greater than 100 megawatts of new load and at least $500 million in capital expenditures, adding that it is seeking monetary consideration for […]