HPC News Bytes 20260209: Who Has AI Sovereignty?, Bullish on Eviden, Intel’s Latest GPU Attempt, AI Predictions

A good Valentine’s Day week to you! It was a somewhat retrospective, reflective week in the world of HPC and AI, here are our brief (9:50) thoughts ….

HPC News Bytes 20260202: Microsoft’s Inference Chip, H200 (Not H20) GPUs for China, Mega AI Data Center Deals

A happy month of February to you! The big players have dominated the HPC-AI news front of late, here’s a fast (8:44) recap of recent developments, including: Microsoft Maia 200 ….

Cerebras Scores $10B Deal with OpenAI

Since Cerebras came on the scene in 2019 with its unusual dinner plate-size wafer scale GPU, there was always the potential for a break-out moment when someone or something would elevate the lightning-fast processer ….

HPC News Bytes 20260112: Big Chip News at CES, TSMC’s Arizona Expansion, Sandia’s Neuromorphic News

A good January day to you! There was major chip news last week, most of it coming out of the big CES show in Las Vegas, along with other developments ….

NVIDIA Releases Details on Next-Gen Vera Rubin AI Platform — 5X the Performance of Blackwell

Those who anticipated NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang would delay delivering an update on its next big AI chip — the Vera Rubin processor first discussed last March at the company’s GTC conference in San Jose — until the upcoming GTC conference in two months were surprised last night when Huang released details about the chip […]

HPC News Bytes 20251215: On-Off-On GPU Exports to China, the US-China Power Gap, Pocket-Sized HPC, Regulating AI

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 20251117: SC25 Starts!, Conflicting Tales of China AI Chip Bans, Quantum in the News, NSF Supercomputing Centers Hit 40

A happy Supercomputing Conference week to you from St. Louis! Here’s a fast (9:50) rundown of recent HPC and AI developments: China feeling the bite of AI chip export ….

Tsavorite Announces Omni Processing Unit for AI Compute – Integrates CPU, GPU and Memory

AI compute startup Tsavorite Scalable Intelligence, founded by Intel veterans in 2023, today announced its composable, compute architecture. The Omni Processing Unit (OPU) unifies CPU, GPU, memory and scale up/scale out connectivity in a single device, the company said ….

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 ….

TSMC to Add Chip Design Center in Germany for AI, Other Sectors

TSMC announced today it will open a new chip design center in Munich by the third quarter of this year, something viewed as European Union victory as it pursues self-reliance in chip production. According to an article on the MarketScreener (with Reuters) ….