SK hynix Partners with TSMC on HBM

Seoul, April 19, 2024 – Memory company SK hynix Inc. announced today a memorandum of understanding with TSMC to produce next-generation HBM and enhance logic and HBM integration through advanced packaging technology. The company plans to proceed with the development of HBM4, or the sixth generation of the HBM family, slated to be mass produced […]

CONTACT Software Presents AAS Applications at Hannover Messe 2024

April 19, 2024 — CONTACT Software is pushing the use of the Asset Administration Shell with its Elements platform. In Hannover, the company and its partners will showcase several new AAS applications for the digital twin. As a cross-enterprise standard for the digital twin, the Asset Administration Shell (AAS) offers significant potential for machinery and […]

Lenovo and NVIDIA Partner on New Hybrid AI Solutions

[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] Lenovo unveiled the expansion of its ThinkSystem AI portfolio designed for the most demanding AI, data analytics and HPC workloads, featuring two powerful 8-way NVIDIA GPU systems combining massive computational capabilities with power efficiency. Engineered for generative AI, the Lenovo systems incorporate support for the NVIDIA HGX AI supercomputing platform, including NVIDIA H100 and H200 Tensor Core GPUs and the new Grace Blackwell….

Panasas in Manufacturing and Fulfillment Partnership with Avnet 

SAN JOSE, April 18, 2024 — Data solutions company Panasas and Avnet (Nasdaq: AVT) today announced an agreement enabling Panasas to use Avnet Integrated, the systems integration arm of Avnet, as its primary manufacturing and fulfillment operations partner. Panasas said the partnership will enable Panasas to benefit from Avnet’s global supply chain and worldwide manufacturing footprint, “strengthening Panasas’ […]

Quantum: D-Wave Introduces Anneal Feature

PALO ALTO, Calif – April 18, 2024 — Quantum computing company D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS) today launched the fast-anneal feature, available on all of D-Wave’s quantum processing units (QPUs) in the Leap real-time quantum cloud service. The fast-anneal feature has been a key part of D-Wave’s research milestones, including work published in Nature Physics (2022) and Nature (2023), […]

Eviden Delivers 104 Pflops Nvidia-Powered EXA1-HE Supercomputer for CEA

Paris – April 17, 2024 – CEA (The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission) and Eviden, the Atos advanced computing business unit, today announce the delivery of the EXA1 HE supercomputer, based on Eviden’s BullSequana….

CIQ Launches Support for Upstream Kernels in Rocky Linux

RENO, Nev.—April 17, 2024—CIQ today launched supported, upstream kernels for Rocky Linux via the CIQ Enterprise Linux Platform, designed for enhanced performance, hardware compatibility and security. CIQ said the new offering was built to meet the ultra-high performance, compatibility and security needs of the most advanced customers, and is now available to everyone. Development of […]

Riverlane Wins DARPA Quantum Benchmarking Program Grant

April 17, 2024 — Quantum computing company Riverlane has been selected for Phase 2 of the Quantum Benchmarking program funded by the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The aim of the program is to design key quantum computing metrics for practically relevant problems and estimate the required quantum and classical resources needed to reach […]

LBNL Leads Quantum Data Storage, Visualization Project

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has announced that national lab and university researchers recently released two papers introducing new methods of data storage and analysis to make quantum computing more practical and exploring how visualization helps in understanding quantum computing. “This work represents significant strides in understanding and harnessing current quantum devices for data encoding, processing, and visualization,” […]

Microsoft and NVIDIA Together Advance AI

[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] Think of the Microsoft Azure cloud platform as analogous to a general contractor who brings together the most skilled and knowledgeable artisans, technologically speaking, offering the latest and most powerful advanced AI capabilities. This would include the latest NVIDIA AI hardware….