DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - IBM
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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IBM and ETH Zurich collaborate on quantum computer to be hosted in Lugano, Switzerland
New system at Swiss National Supercomputing Center will be accessible to private firms and other higher education institutions
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IBM announces availability of its Nighthawk r2 quantum processor
Company claims the chip delivers improvements in quality and speed over Nighthawk r1
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IBM mainframe chip to run Arm and Z workloads on the same cores
Two worlds on one chip
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IBM successfully demonstrates connection and cooling of two cryogenic modules
Company says demo is important milestone on its path to deploying first fault-tolerant quantum computer
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IBM and Together AI sign $240m Nvidia HGX B300 cloud deployment deal
Cluster expected to go live in Q1 2027
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IBM acquires HRL Laboratories to further boost quantum computing R&D efforts
Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed
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IBM CEO: Z revenue is "deferred not destroyed"
IBM executives attempt to assuage concerns after poor quarterly performance
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IBM releases preliminary results for Q2 2026, sees shares drop by more than 20 percent
CEO Arvind Krishna writes letter to investors to explain "performance shortfall"
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IBM expands mainframe portfolio with new z17 and LinuxONE Systems offerings
Single frame and rack mount configurations help to address data center cost and space constraints, company said
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IBM details major chip breakthrough with new sub-1nm ‘nanostack’ 3D architecture
Company claims technology provides up to 50 percent more performance or 70 percent greater energy efficiency
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IBM announces five-year, $10bn quantum investment
Company says investment will help support its quantum roadmap beyond 2029
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Services Australia signs AU$110m contract with IBM for mainframe upgrade
Contract period will run until end of June 2031
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US Dep’t of Commerce awards nine quantum computing companies $2bn in exchange for non-controlling equity stakes
Plus a round up of other quantum computing news
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NorthC data center outside Amsterdam suffers fire
Firefighters still fighting blaze
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IBM files for new quantum computing facility in Poughkeepsie, New York
Plans to expand campus with new 511,000 sq ft facility
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IBM unconcerned about memory shortage impact on company supply chain
Continues seeing progress in infrastructure segment
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Iowa State University to shut down mainframe
Company switching to cloud-based system
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IBM, Arm team up to build ‘dual-architecture’ hardware for AI and data-intensive workloads
Pair have come a long way since their salad days of co-creating IoT starter kits
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New Zealand's Datacom acquires Auckland data center from T4
Veteran ICT firm takes over former IBM facility
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Australian Taxation Office signs AU$104.8m contract for IBM z17 mainframe
Home Affairs department also signs AU$35m for non-mainframe IBM deal
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Former IBM factory site in Scotland earmarked for data center & BESS development
Slate Island Developments eyes 99MW BESS at former typewriter and personal computer site outside Glasgow
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IBM outlines blueprint for integrating quantum computers into supercomputing environments
Reference architecture maps path for solving scientific challenge no single compute approach is capable of
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DARPA to research modular sub-kelvin cryocoolers that don't use helium-3
Could help solve a critical quantum computing supply chain challenge
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Italian court suspends €47m quantum computing contract with IBM following tender process appeal
Unsuccessful bidder Tea Tek claims procedural process was unfair
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IBM unveils new FlashSystem offerings, can be co-managed by its AI agents, says company
Product portfolio will be available from March 6
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IBM's mainframe business sees highest annual revenue in 20 years
z17 system sees strongest first three quarters in two decades
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IBM signs Edge AI deal with Datavault AI
Companies to roll out AI services to Available Infrastructure micro data centers in New York and Philadelphia.
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All England Lawn Tennis Club renews cloud and AI partnership with IBM
Signs new multi-year contract