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 ….
HPC News Bytes 20251117: SC25 Starts!, Conflicting Tales of China AI Chip Bans, Quantum in the News, NSF Supercomputing Centers Hit 40
November 17, 2025 by
Tsavorite Announces Omni Processing Unit for AI Compute – Integrates CPU, GPU and Memory
November 11, 2025 by
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
October 7, 2025 by
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
May 27, 2025 by
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) ….
Axelera AI Wins EuroHPC Grant of up to €61.6M for AI Chiplet Development
March 6, 2025 by
AI hardware maker Axelera AI has unveiled Titania, which the company described as a high-performance, low-power and scalable AI inference chiplet. Part of the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking’s effort to develop a ….
Q.ANT and IMS CHIPS Launch Pilot Production Line for Photonic AI Chips in Stuttgart
February 24, 2025 by
Q.ANT, a photonic AI chip company, said today it has launched a dedicated production line for its AI chips at the Institute of Microelectronics Stuttgart (IMS CHIPS).Capable of producing up to 1,000 wafers per year, the pilot line enables Q.ANT to refine its chip architecture to meet evolving market requirements. It also serves as the […]
SambaNova Reports Fastest DeepSeek-R1 671B with High Efficiency
February 18, 2025 by
Palo Alto, CA – Generative AI company SambaNova announced last week that DeepSeek-R1 671B is running today on SambaNova Cloud at 198 tokens per second (t/s), “achieving speeds and efficiency that no other platform can match,” the company said. DeepSeek-R1 has reduced AI training costs by 10X, but its widespread adoption has been hindered by […]
SambaNova Launches AI Inference Cloud Platform
September 10, 2024 by
PALO ALTO, CA — Sept. 10th, 2024 — AI chips and models company SambaNova Systems announced SambaNova Cloud AI inference service powered by its SN40L AI chip. The company said developers can log on for free via an API today — no waiting list — and create their own generative AI applications using both the […]
Google in $1.67B AI Chip Patent Infringement Trial
January 12, 2024 by
Designing an AI specialty chip that gains traction is a sure way to riches. That’s why so much money – $1.67 billion – is at stake in a patent infringement lawsuit brought against Google. Reuters reported this week on a federal trial in Boston in which computer scientist Joseph Bates, founder of Singular Computing….
HPC News Bytes 20231120: SC23 Overview – Exascale Update, New AI Chips, Quantum Village, UCIe-PCIe-Ultra Ethernet
November 20, 2023 by
In this edition of the HPC News Bytes podcast, Shahin takes us on a rapid (5:04) tour of SC23, analyzing the key developments and new technologies that highlighted last week’s conference in Denver: Conference attendance expands to 14,000; exascale update and future; raft of new chips, many focused on AI; Quantum Village at SC23; UCIe, PCIe and Ultra Ethernet
