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Vertical Semiconductor awarded $73m in CHIPS Act funding to support vGaN transistor development
The agreement will see the Department of Commerce take a minority stake in the company
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Telefónica and IQM will install Madrid's first quantum computer
The project expands the collaboration between Telefónica and IQM, which have already supplied two quantum computers to the Galicia Supercomputing Center (CESGA)
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US Department of Commerce commits up to $389m in R&D funding to power semiconductors for fusion and advanced computing
Google-backed CFS and Microsoft-backed Helion to receive R&D funding
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Supermicro launches 100% liquid cooled Nvidia Vera CPU rack
Rack scale solution can be deployed alone or alongside Nvidia Vera Rubin NVL72
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SK Hynix puts the kibosh on Solidigm IPO plans
Volatile market blamed for pause in public offering plans after months of investor qualms
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HPE expands Private Cloud AI solution to support mixed Nvidia hardware clusters, launches Vera CPU rack
Expanding support for agentic AI
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Dell unveils Nvidia Vera CPU offerings, launches its first Groq 3 LPU rack-scale inference solution
All have been purpose-built for agentic AI, Dell said
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Former OpenAI head of data centers joins Nvidia to help lead DSX Platform team
Chris Malone announced new role two months after OpenAI departure was reported
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Infineon and Nvidia to develop gallium nitride power conversion tech for 800VDC data center racks
Latest agreement in support of the move to 800VDC
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General Compute signs on to purchase Positron AI hardware
Will start with Atlas systems and later adopt Titan
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Vultr to deploy 20MW AMD MI355X cluster in Chennai, India
Says it will be the country's largest AMD Instinct deployment
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Nvidia GTC Berlin keynote disrupted by Greenpeace activists
‘Nvidia, clean up your dirty business,’ - protesters heckle Jensen Huang
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Nvidia launches DSX POD, claims the Vera-Rubin reference architecture will make AI data centers more water and energy efficient
Details released at GTC Berlin event, taking place this week
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AI chip startup Tenstorrent raises $1.5bn at $6.2bn valuation
Funding will support ongoing development of company’s Galaxy servers
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Optical switching startup Salience Labs raises $125m with AMD and Intel participating in round
Series B raise will support continued development and deployment of optical circuit switching technology
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Wolfspeed signs agreement with Infineon for supply off 200mm silicon carbide substrates
Multi-year deal will directly support Infineon’s conversion to 200mm SiC manufacturing
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NTT deploys Nvidia GPU test cluster at Munich 2 data center
Allows customers to test AI applications on Nvidia Blackwell hardware
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D-Wave delivers Advantage2 quantum computer to Italy
System has been funded by SQT and will support the region's quantum computing ambitions
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Two workers killed, third injured, in explosion at Intel’s Kiryat Gat fab in Israel
Company says it is cooperating with authorities on investigation into incident
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Nvidia joins The Earthshot Prize as new founding member
Will provide finalists with resources and compute to scale technology
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Celestica debuts liquid-cooled CPO switch for AI fabrics
DS6005 targets AI network efficiency through Broadcom switch silicon
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Photonics quantum firm Orca Computing deploys PT-3 system at Digital Realty’s LHR19 data center
Quantum computer was installed and operational within 24 hours, and is already powering two projects
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GlobalFoundries to build and operate two new chip fabs in NY as part of $21bn US-Japan deal
First facility is expected to be operational in 2029
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Credo pushes past copper limits with 1.6T optical cable
ZeroFlap ALC looks to bring copper-class reliability to AI scale-out networks
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Microchip Technology updates its networking and storage products to better support AI and HPC workloads
Expanded data center portfolio will help customers address multiple infrastructure challenges, the company said
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Meta details next-gen AI infra: Custom multiterabit switches & unified fabrics
OCP provides a glimpse at the stack set to power Muse agent workloads
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Microsoft unveils Azure Maia 300, says chip will be its “primary inference system”
Meanwhile, Maia 200 has already been deployed across multiple geographies
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Nvidia opens up Vera Rubin rack and tray designs to OCP
MGX 1.2 spec doubles down on liquid cooling