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 ….

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 ….

Qualcomm Unveils Rack-Scale AI Inference Chips

Qualcomm Technologies today announced the launch of its AI inference solutions for data centers: the Qualcomm AI200 and AI250 chip-based accelerator cards, and racks. The AI200 and AI250 are expected to be commercially available in 2026 and 2027 ….

Arm and Meta Announce Extension of AI Partnership

Arm and Meta announced the extension of their partnership to scale AI across multiple layers of compute – spanning AI software and data center infrastructure. The multi-year partnership builds on the ongoing hardware and software co-design efforts between the two companies, combining Arm AI chips with Meta’s AI-driven products, infrastructure, and open technologies. “From milliwatt-scale […]

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

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 ….

@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 ….

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 ….

News Bytes 20251006: Big Cloud Balances BYO vs Merchant AI Chips, Surprise Players in AI Infrastructure Market

Good October day to you! HPC-AI, the industry that never sleeps, has served up its usual stew of news of late, here’s a fast (8:38) review of recent developments ….

NVIDIA: Disney, Foxconn, Hitachi and TSMC Among Blackwell Server Users

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Aug. 26, 2025—NVIDIA today released a list of companies adopting NVIDIA RTX PRO Servers powered by the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPU. The list includes Disney, Foxconn, Hitachi Ltd., Hyundai Motor Group, Lilly, SAP and TSMC. Built with NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, RTX PRO Servers use the […]