HPC News Bytes 20250428: Zettascale at the Salishan Conference, TSMC’s A14 Fab, Intel’s New CEO: ‘We Need to Change’

Good end-of-April to you! Here’s a quick (8:05) review of recent doings in the world of HPC-AI, including: the Salishan Conference takes on HPC-AI divergence and FugakuNext zettascale, TSMC’s A14 fab, Intel’s 18A fab and AmKor CoWoS packaging in Arizona, Intel’s earnings, new AI compute strategy and CEO Lip Bu Tan’s warning ….

The AI Factory Heats Up: Liquid Cooling Options Explained

The compute power required by AI and HPC is driving a transition from 10-15 megawatt data centers to 50-100 megawatt and even gigawatt AI factories. With next gen AI superchips operating at 2,800 watts and beyond ….

JEDEC Collaborates to Release JESD270-4 HBM4 Standard for AI and HPC

ARLINGTON, Va., USA – April 16, 2025 – JEDEC Solid State Technology Association, developer of standards for the microelectronics industry, today announced the publication of its highly anticipated High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) DRAM standard: HBM4. Designed as an evolutionary step beyond the previous HBM3 standard, JESD270-4 HBM4 will further enhance data processing rates while maintaining essential features […]

Deloitte Reports on Nuclear Power and the HPC-AI Data Center Energy Gap

Even as the HPC-AI sector cheers on more powerful chips, denser servers, faster fabrics, bigger memory and mammoth, multi-hundreds of billion-dollar AI data centers, a voice is whispering ….

OmniScale Media and SC Conference Extend Partnership Through 2026

Vancouver, WA—April 16, 2025—OmniScale Media, the strategic communications partner for innovative technology brands, today announced a two-year partnership extension with the SC Conference, the international event for high-performance computing (HPC), networking, storage, and analysis. Fresh off 2024’s record 18,104 attendees—a 30 percent increase over 2023’s record attendance—OmniScale will drive strategic communications for SC25 and SC26 […]

Compu Dynamics Launches HPC and AI Data Center Infrastructure Solutions

CHANTILLY, Va.– Compu Dynamics, a provider of data center construction and operations services, announced the launch of its AI and High-Performance Computing Services unit. The portfolio encompasses the spectrum of data center needs, from initial design and procurement to construction, operation, and ongoing maintenance, with a particular emphasis on cutting-edge liquid cooling technologies for AI and HPC environment. Compu Dynamics’ new […]

Liquid Cooling: CoolIT Systems Announces Row-Based Coolant Distribution Unit

Calgary, AB, April 15, 2025 — AI ad HPC liquid cooling company CoolIT Systems today introduced the CHx2000, which the company said is the highest-performance row-based coolant distribution unit (CDU). This follows CoolIT’s announcement of the CHx1500 CDU in early March 2025. In production and shipping from CoolIT’s multi-gigawatt capacity manufacturing facilities, CHx2000 offers a […]

Altair Partners with DATAsolution in South Korean for AI and HPC

TROY, Mich., April 14, 2025 — Altair announced a reseller partnership with DATAsolution, a company specializing in data analytics and infrastructure solutions. This collaboration combines Altair’s artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) technology with DATAsolution‘s expertise in data infrastructure to deliver customized solutions and enhance customer support. DATAsolution will distribute Altair’s data analytics and AI platform, Altair RapidMiner, as […]

HPC News Bytes 20250414: Argonne’s Reactor Monitor, AI on the Moon, TSMC under $1B Penalty Threat, HPC-AI in Growth Mode

A happy Tax Day (U.S.) Eve to you! It’s been an eventful week in the HPC-AI industry, here’s a rapid (8:39) run-down of recent news ….

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 ….