HPC News Bytes 20250505: Japan’s Rapidus 2nm Chips, $7T Data Center Forecast, NVIDIA and Trade Restrictions, ‘Godfather of AI’ Issues Warning

Good May morning to you! Here’s a somewhat rapid (10:11) run-through of recent news from the world of HPC-AI ….

HPC News Bytes Podcast 20230807: PCIe over Optical, Quantum at Oak Ridge, Domain-Specific Architectures, Intel Expands Oregon Fabs

Kicking off the week with a fast (4:17) review of the latest HPC news: McKinsey reported on the rise of domain-specific architectures that quantifies the slowdown of Moore’s Law and lists five DSA-boosting trends; Intel’s plans for a massive, billions-dollars-plus expansion of chip fabs in Oregon; PCI-SIG’s new workgroup to deliver PCIe technology over optical connections; Oak Ridge National Lab scientists used a Quantinuum quantum computer to produce “an intriguing scientific result” in solar cell research.