DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Government & Military, AMD
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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AFRL unveils 14 petaflops Flyer supercomputer
System will support the US Department of Defense
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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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US introduces 25 percent export tariff on chips “important” to nation's technology policies
Nvidia H200 and AMD MI325X GPUs will be subject to the levy
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HPE unveils GX5000 supercomputing platform, will build two new AMD-based supercomputers for ORNL
Expects to start delivering GX5000-based systems from early 2027
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US authorities tracking AI chip shipments to stop them being diverted to China – report
Trackers have been attached to shipments of Dell and Supermicro servers, sources claim
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Trump originally wanted 20% cut of revenues from Chinese sales of Nvidia’s “obsolete” H20 chips
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang met with Trump to negotiate the figure down to 15 percent
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Nvidia and AMD agree to pay US gov’t 15% of China chip sales in order to obtain export licenses - report
Deal was struck by the parties last week
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AMD to resume shipments of Instinct MI308 chips to China following Department of Commerce approval
Follows news that Nvidia will be allowed to export its H20 chips to China
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GlobalFoundries pledges $16bn investment to reshore chip manufacturing at New York and Vermont fabs
Company says it will collaborate with Apple, AMD, and Qualcomm, amongst others
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TSMC proposes JV with chip firms to share ownership of Intel’s foundry division - report
Nvidia, AMD, Qualcomm, and Broadcom have all been approached, sources claim
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NEC to supply supercomputer for fusion science research in Japan
System is set to go live in July 2025
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DoD launches new biological defense supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore Lab
Specs not shared, but same architecture as upcoming El Capitan system
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Chip stocks fall as Biden reportedly weighs up new China export sanctions
Semiconductor equipment manufacturers could be targeted by new restrictions
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Tokyo Tech launches new supercomputer
AMD & Nvidia-powered HPE Cray system offers 66.8 petaflops
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Chinese government issues 'rip and replace' order for US-made chips in country’s telco networks
Chinese telcos have until 2027 to comply with the guidance
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China bans use of Intel and AMD chips in gov't PCs and servers
List of approved technologies contains only Chinese-made solutions
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AMD's China-focused AI chip sale blocked by US Commerce Department
Despite designing a less powerful chip specifically for the Chinese market, AMD can’t sell it without a license
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HPE delivers Austral supercomputer to CRIANN in France
Company gets 2 petaflops system
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UK government plans to spend up to £100m on AI chips
Government officials in talks with Nvidia, AMD and Intel
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NCAR launches 20 petaflops supercomputer in Wyoming
HPE system launches more than a year later than originally planned
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Navy DoD Supercomputing Resource Center to install 17.7 petaflops 'Blueback' supercomputer
Replaces three older systems
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Installation of El Capitan supercomputer begins at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
The two exaflops supercomputer is underway
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GE's research division to launch new Menlo supercomputer
General Electric sticks with Cray-based systems
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US DOE launches 'Crusher' supercomputer as testbed for Frontier exascale system
Frontier's full launch slips to next year
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Intel and AMD halt chip sales to Russia, TSMC joins in on sanctions
Cutting Russia off from the latest chips
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DoD awards $68m contract to Penguin Computing for two supercomputers
One for the Air Force, and another for the Navy
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National Supercomputing Centre Singapore to use AMD Epyc 7003 Series processors
AMD continues to eat up HPC market share
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Chip makers, big tech, and cloud companies launch Semiconductors in America Coalition to lobby government
Primarily focused on getting funding for the CHIPS Act