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 ….

HPC News Bytes 20260126: Intel and Other Chip Stocks in Spotlight, Industry-Wide Supply Shortage, Micron Build-Up in Upstate New York, US Chip Investments by Region

Good late January morning to you! The HPC-AI industry threw its weight around last week in its usual fashion, here’s a ….

@HPCpodcast: DDN’s Paul Bloch on High Performance Storage Strategies for AI Data Centers

Our special guest today is Paul Bloch, President and Co-founder of DDN, the high performance storage and intelligent data platform company.
AI runs on massive amounts of fast and reliable data, which makes topics related to ….

What I Saw at the Revolution

If it’s not too late to take stock of 2025 in HPC-AI, then holding up the Supercomputing Conference as a trends test site might be a good approach. I’m no perennial* but I’ve been to about half of the 37 SCs , including all 11 since 2015. Looking ….

HPC News Bytes 20260112: Big Chip News at CES, TSMC’s Arizona Expansion, Sandia’s Neuromorphic News

A good January day to you! There was major chip news last week, most of it coming out of the big CES show in Las Vegas, along with other developments ….

DDN Powers Integrated Compute, Data, and Offload at Scale for NVIDIA Rubin Platform

Los Angeles — DDN today announced deep collaboration with NVIDIA to support the company’s next-generation AI factory architecture unveiled at CES 2026, including the NVIDIA Rubin platform and NVIDIA BlueField-4 DPU. DDN and NVIDIA are enabling enterprises and hyperscalers to operationalize large-scale AI faster by eliminating data bottlenecks that limit performance, utilization, and time-to-value. As generative and agentic AI workloads evolve toward million-token context windows, distributed inference, […]

VAST Data Redesigns Inference Architecture for Agentic AI with NVIDIA

NEW YORK – – VAST Data, the AI Operating System company, today announced a new inference architecture that enables the NVIDIA Inference Context Memory Storage Platform – deployments for the era of long-lived, agentic AI. The platform is a new class of AI-native storage infrastructure for gigascale inference. Built on NVIDIA BlueField-4 DPUs and Spectrum-X […]

NVIDIA Releases Details on Next-Gen Vera Rubin AI Platform — 5X the Performance of Blackwell

Those who anticipated NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang would delay delivering an update on its next big AI chip — the Vera Rubin processor first discussed last March at the company’s GTC conference in San Jose — until the upcoming GTC conference in two months were surprised last night when Huang released details about the chip […]

Commonwealth Fusion Systems in Digital Twins Collaboration with Siemens and Nvidia

DEVENS, Mass. (January 6, 2026) — Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) today announced collaborations with NVIDIA and Siemens to develop a digital twin of its SPARC fusion machine that will apply artificial intelligence, data and project management tools to accelerate commercial fusion. The digital twin will leverage troves of data from the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio of […]

HPC News Bytes 20260105: Denied H20s, China Now Granted H200s, Meta Acquires Manus, Sandia’s Photonics Quantum Chip

A happy and prosperous 2026 to you! The world of HPC-AI transitioned to the new year while generating its fair share of news, here’s a rapid (8:35) recap of recent developments, including ….