DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
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The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
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AMD acquires AI research firm World Labs in all-stock deal worth $8.2bn
World Labs’ CEO will join chip giant as EVP and chief scientist
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Samsung to fuel Korean robot ambitions as exclusive AI network provider
AI-RAN, 5G SA partnership with KT and SK Telecom to guarantee Korea's 6G and physical AI foothold in the 2030s
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Google rumored to have partnered with AMD on TPU v10, as shipments of current generations revised down - report
Details disclosed in a report from research firm SemiAnalysis
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AMD acquires AI chip startup Taalas to further support inference workloads
Financial terms or expected timeline for completion were not disclosed
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AMD posts Q2 ‘26 revenue of $11.5bn, with data center revenue up 107% for the quarter
Data center revenue now represents 58 percent of total revenue
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Vultr adds AMD Instinct MI455X GPUs to its cloud platform
Two companies recently partnered with the University of Cambridge for a global environmental monitoring project
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Core Scientific secures AMD as customer at five sites
Chip firm signs on for initial 500MW, could expand to 2.5GW
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AMD and Schneider Electric launch reference standards for Helios AI rack
Will help developers incorporate rack into AI data centers
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AMD partners with big chip co. Cerebras for ultra-low-latency and high throughput AI inference system
Helios and Cerebras go up against Nvidia's NVL72 and Groq LPX
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Meta to deploy custom AMD Instinct MI450-based GPU, is 'lead customer' for Venice Epyc CPU
As part of ongoing 6GW AMD rollout
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OpenAI to deploy AMD Helios rackscale system as first part of up to 6GW partnership
Company has already tested the beefy AI rack
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AMD launches Instinct MI400 Series GPUs for AI workloads
Targets both frontier AI and supercomputing
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AMD officially launches Helios rackscale system, with MI455X GPUs, Venice Epyc CPUs, and Pensando
Following ZT acquisition, company looks to compete with Nvidia's system-level approach
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AMD to invest up to $5bn in Anthropic, AI company to deploy up to 2GW of Instinct MI450 GPUs
First gigawatt expected in H1 2027
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Microsoft to deploy AMD Helios rackscale solution to support inference workloads and Azure services
AMD will start shipping Helios in H2 2026
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AI cloud startup General Compute raises $400m in debt financing
Funding round underwritten by Upper90
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Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center awarded $10m by NSF for Bridges-3 supercomputer
New flagship system expected to be operational by summer 2027
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Marvell boosts custom silicon push with AMD engineering lead hire
Engineering lead behind AMD EPYC efforts joins custom XPU team
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AFRL unveils 14 petaflops Flyer supercomputer
System will support the US Department of Defense
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Rackspace to deploy 30MW of AMD AI chips in its data centers
Aims to support enterprise customers in regulated industries
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AMD acquires storage software startup MEXT
Startup's software treats flash like DRAM, potentially avoiding high memory storage costs
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Arista Networks joins the 1.6T race with AI-centric switch platform
7060XE7 line taps Broadcom’s Tomahawk 6 while AMD enlisted for use in scale-out AI fabric designs
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UK Gov't to deploy new supercomputer by 2030, with British chips (hopefully)
All part of Blighty's cunning new AI Hardware Plan
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Bull delivers Finland’s national supercomputer Roihu to CSC’s Kajaani data center
System is powered by AMD Turin CPUs and Nvidia GH200 superchips
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Dell announces PowerStore Elite storage platform, unveils 18th generation of PowerEdge servers
Company says the hardware represents a "reimagining" of the modern data center
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AMD debuts MI350 PCIe card to accelerate enterprise AI workloads
Chip giant extends accelerator peripheral lineup as it looks to meet bandwidth-booming workload demands
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AMD posts Q1 2026 data center revenue of $5.8bn, forecasts $120bn server CPU income by 2030
Despite significant double-digit data center growth, total revenue remained flat quarter-on-quarter
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AMD signs additional 25MW data center lease with Riot in Texas
Chip designer expands on initial lease signed with cryptominer in January