ARMONK, N.Y. and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Dec. 8, 2025 — IBM (NYSE: IBM) and data streaming company Confluent today announced they have entered into an agreement under which IBM will acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Confluent for $31 per share, representing an enterprise value of $11 billion. Confluent provides an […]
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
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 ….
IBM Collaborates Across Four National Quantum Innovation Centers for Quantum-Centric Supercomputing
November 4, 2025 by
Nov. 4, 2025 — Today, the United States Department of Energy announced the continued funding of the National Quantum Information Science Research Centers (NQISRCs). IBM released the following statement: We applaud the DoE for continuing to promote quantum science in the United States, and we are committed to the success of these centers and accelerating […]
IBM and Groq Partner on Enterprise AI Deployment on watsonx Orchestrate
October 21, 2025 by
ARMONK, N.Y. and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 20, 2025 — IBM and Groq today announced a partnership to provide access to Groq’s AI inference technology, GroqCloud, on watsonx Orchestrate. The partnership is intended to provide high-speed AI inference capabilities at a cost that helps accelerate agentic AI deployment. As part of the partnership, Groq and IBM plan to integrate […]
IBM in OEM Partnership with Cockroach Labs
October 8, 2025 by
NEW YORK, Oct. 7, 2025 — Cockroach Labs, the company behind the distributed SQL database CockroachDB, today announced an OEM partnership with IBM to bring CockroachDB PostgreSQL for IBM to market. This collaboration gives enterprises a trusted path to modernize mission-critical applications with a cloud-native PostgreSQL database engineered for active-active business continuity across hybrid environments—including IBM LinuxONE, Linux […]
IBM AI Development Environment Combining with Anthropic Claude LLM’s
October 7, 2025 by
IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Anthropic today announced a partnership for development of enterprise-ready AI by combining Anthropic’s Claude family of large language models into IBM’s software portfolio. The companies said ….
HSBC Reports on Quantum-Enabled Algorithmic Trading with IBM
September 26, 2025 by
25 September 2025 — British bank and financial services company HSBC announced what it said is the world’s first-known empirical evidence of the potential value of current quantum computers for algorithmic bond trading. Working with a team from IBM, HSBC leveraged an approach that utilized quantum and classical computing resources to deliver up to a […]
HPC News Bytes 20250901: MIT Quantum Report, AMD+IBM=HPC+Quantum, Meta’s Data-Center-in-a-Tent, NVIDIA Earnings, Hot Chips 2025
September 1, 2025 by
Happy first day of September to you! It’s been an interesting week in the world of HPC-AI, here’s a rapid (8:10) romp through recent developments, including ….
AMD and IBM to Collaborate on ‘Quantum-Centric Supercomputing’
August 26, 2025 by
Today, IBM and AMD announced plans to develop computing architectures combining quantum computers and high-performance computing, known as quantum-centric supercomputing. AMD and IBM are collaborating ….
SNIA Announces Storage.AI
August 4, 2025 by
Santa Clara, CA., August 4, 2025 – SNIA, a not-for-profit organization for technologies related to handling and optimizing data, today announced Storage.AI, an open standards project designed for efficient data services related to AI workloads. Storage.AI will focus on industry-standard, non-proprietary, and neutral approaches to solving AI-related data problems to optimize the performance, efficiency, and […]
