Optical illusion: Is co-packaged optics the savior the data center industry has been waiting for?
As demands on data center networks grow, is CPO finally ready to take center stage?
Long Reads - The Compute, Storage & Networking Channel
In-depth features about the data center, AI, semiconductor, telco, and energy markets
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Giving extra time to video content
How sports teams are looking to tap into decades of archived footage
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Can we power it? Yes we GaN
Is the data center industry finally catching up to the promise of gallium nitride?
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Arm's race: Building the AGI CPU
Britain's chip design champion is making its own silicon for AI data centers
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The Edge of tomorrow
Axelera AI founder Fabrizio del Maffeo wants to bring Edge AI hardware to the world
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Nvidia’s LPU gamble
The GPU kingpin on life beyond the GPU
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Cornelis Networks enjoys supercomputing success as Ethernet vision crystalizes
Intel spinout CEO makes the case for Omni-Path as it toasts Top500 supercomputer spot
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Can you really make chips in space?
Will orbital semiconductor manufacturing ever become a reality?
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Quantum of promise: How to build a quantum chip
Inside the complex world of quantum processor manufacturing
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Connecting the cloud, part II: The network
Outside the data center
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The next era of silicon?
Elad Raz, founder and CEO of Israeli chip startup NextSilicon, on how his firm can take on Nvidia. Maybe
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Storage wars: Is this the end for hard drives in the data center?
Could the shortages facing the HDD market ultimately lead to the technology being replaced?
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Nvidia wants to reinvent the RAN
All eyes on bringing AI to the RAN for the 6G future
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The profundity and paradox of time
How time keeps modern society – and data centers – in one piece
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AI is driving a networking evolution
Providers acknowledge the challenge of running complex systems
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Ethernet is winning the AI supercomputing battle
HPE's Slingshot shows how 'Ethernet plus' beats proprietary interconnects
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Compute, storage, and networking: A 2025 retrospective
US manufacturing booms, Nvidia splashes the cash, and quantum machines advance
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2025 data center M&A in review
A look at notable deals and trends in the data center M&A space
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Quantum for good: Are trapped ion qubits the future of drug discovery?
Universal Quantum is on a mission to help develop a cure for endometriosis
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Data mining
Going underground at Norway's Lefdal Mine data center
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Building OpenAI's Stargate
Talking to the ChatGPT-maker about its trillion-dollar data center vision
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How to build a supercomputer
DCD gets up close and personal with Hunter, the most powerful supercomputer at the Stuttgart HPC center
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DDN CEO Alex Bouzari on surviving the age of AI
“People don't understand. They just pour money into AI and then they freak out - it's the Dotcom Bubble all over again”
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Making connections: The pursuit of chiplet interconnect standardization
A closer look at Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express technology
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Vive la révolution: The inside story of the big French AI data center build-out
Can it become Europe's AI capital?
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How Arm is building infrastructure for a systems-level world
Chip design giant has gone from playing catch-up to being a market-leading triple threat in 15 years
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Cloud vs on-prem: Customers and quantum computers
DCD talks to on-premise and cloud customers of quantum computers
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Inside a quantum data center
DCD visits quantum data centers from IBM and IQM in Germany