DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - IT Hardware & Semiconductors, Dan Swinhoe, DCD
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Nvidia partners with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR for $500bn financing program
Chip company aims to 'secure capital at attractive rates' for Nvidia customers
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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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Quantum firm Atom Computing secures $100m Series C funding
Third Point Ventures, DCVC, and Cisco Investments put money into Atom's atomic array-based tech
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IQM quantum computer launches at Oak Ridge national lab
Government lab is IQM's first US deployment
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France’s GENCI to procure on-premise quantum computer from Alice & Bob
18-qubit system due live next year
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Orca deploys quantum computer in Japan
Company partners with Toyota Tsusho on enterprise deployment
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Tensordyne tapes out new inferencing chip
Company aims to take on Nvidia with new chip
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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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Lawrence Livermore deploys Lynx supercomputer
New cluster to support NNSA's nuclear stockpile management
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Alice & Bob to offer on-premise quantum computer
Helium system first on-premse system offering cat-qubits
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Singapore launches new national supercomputer
Aspire 2B offers 115 petaflops of compute via AMD CPUs and Nvidia GPUs
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Italy’s CINECA launches two quantum computers in Bologna
Launches systems from IQM and Pasqal, as well as upgrades to Leonardo HPC cluster
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Australia’s Monash University launches supercomputer at CDC data center
Nvidia system launches in CDC's Brooklyn facility outside Melbourne
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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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Broadcom, Apollo, and Blackstone launch 20GW XPU platform
Initial $35 billion to serve Anthropic, via Fluidstack
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Naver to deploy 55MW of Nvidia hardware in South Korea
Cloud provider aiming to deploy hundreds of megawatts of AI capacity globally in the coming years
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South Korea's LG to deploy Nvidia AI factory
LG Uplus building data center to accomodate Nvidia kit
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Three 1990s Cray supercomputers up for sale at auction in the UK
No bids at time of writing for historical computing gear
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Quantum computing startup FrostByte raises €1.3 million for cryogenic CMOS tech
TU Delft spin-out raises pre-seed money
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NTT to support Rapidus liquid-cooled GPU server deployment in Japan
Liquid-cooled deployment needed for chip design and manufacture
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Iowa State University to shut down mainframe
Company switching to cloud-based system
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Parking lot solar-GPU canopy deployment planned in Texas
Unnamed Medical real estate firm set to pilot concept
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Scotland's DataVita to host supercomputer for London's UCL
One of four systems funded by UKRI
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German cloud firm Hetzner hikes prices by up to 50 percent due to ‘drastic’ component price increases
Company says increase necessary to keep quality of service
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Indian cloud provider NxtGen AI adopts diamond-cooled GPU servers
Company partners with Akash Systems for H200 servers
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Quantum Art raises $100m in Series A funding
Quantum computing firm targeting quantum advantage with trapped-ion systems
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Nu Quantum secures $60 million Series A investment
Money to accelerate development of quantum networking tech
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UK startup pitches placing compute hardware in street lights
Nvidia Jetsons in iLamps