HPC News Bytes 20260309: AI in 2035, AI Demand and CPU Shortages, Foxconn’s Great Expectations for 2026, EuroHPC Summit Postponed

A wonderful March morning to you! The world of HPC-AI churned out its usual plethora of important news last week, here’s a brief (10:35) discussion of recent developments, including: AI+HW 2035: Shaping the Next Decade – a visionary paper from 12 researchers, now CPUs are in short supply, too ….

NVIDIA to Manufacture AI Supercomputers in U.S.

NVIDIA today said it is working with manufacturing partners to design and build factories that will produce NVIDIA AI supercomputers — i.e., “AI factories” — entirely in the United States… NVIDIA said that within four years, it plans to produce up to half a trillion dollars worth of AI infrastructure in the U.S. through partnerships ….

SoftBank, ZutaCore and Foxconn Join on Rack-Integrated Solution with Liquid Cooling for NVIDIA H200s

Feb. 28, 2025 — SoftBank Corp., ZutaCore and Hon Hai Technology Group (Foxconn) today announced that they implemented ZutaCore’s two-phase direct liquid cooling technology*1 in an AI server using NVIDIA accelerated computing. The companies said this is the first implementation*2 of ZutaCore’s two-phase DLC*1 using NVIDIA H200 GPUs. In addition, SoftBank designed and developed a rack-integrated […]

HPC News Bytes 20241014: AMD Rollout, Foxconn’s Massive AI HPC, AI Drives Nobels, Are LLM’s Intelligent?

A good mid-October morn to you! Here’s a brief (6:30) run-through of developments from the world of HPC-AI, including: AMD’s products rollout, Foxconn’s big Blackwell AI HPC in Taiwan, AI for science drives Nobel Prizes, Meta AI guru’s AGI skepticism

Foxconn to Install Blackwell-Powered 90 AI Exaflops Supercomputer

Nvidia and  Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Foxconn are building what the companies said is Taiwan’s largest supercomputer. The system, to be housed at the Hon Hai Kaohsiung Super Computing Center, will be powered by Nvidia’s Blackwell architecture and feature the GB200 NVL72 ….