SoftBank to acquire data center Arm chip company Ampere Computing for $6.5bn
Oracle will sell its position
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AI servers and modular data center solution among HPE's new Nvidia-supported offerings
New launches coincide with Nvidia's GTC conference
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Nvidia announces Vera Rubin Superchip for late 2026
A new GPU and a new Arm CPU
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Nvidia announces latest DGX SuperPOD with Blackwell Ultra GPUs
Featuring DGX GB300 and DGX B300 systems
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Nvidia shows off its latest data center GPU: The Blackwell Ultra
As well as new DGX systems to boot
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Nvidia unveils silicon photonics networking switches to reduce data center power consumption
Freeing up the power envelope for more GPUs
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Qualcomm signs PPA with Recurrent Energy in Spain
Deal will see Recurrent Energy supply 50,000 MWh annually
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Taara exits Alphabet’s X labs, secures external funding
Freespace optics company reveals new optical chip
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IQM to integrate 54-qubit Radiance system with Italy’s Leonardo supercomputer
Quantum computer will be delivered and installed in Q4 2025
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IBM to place quantum computer in Spain for Basque government
Upgrades prior agreement from a System One
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Digital Realty to host quantum computer in Amsterdam for SURF
16-qubit system to integrate with Snellius supercomputer
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Intel appoints former board member Lip-Bu Tan as CEO
Will start new role on March 18
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Eviden and Supermicro partner to offer Nvidia GB200 NVL72 access in new markets
Companies will sell the servers to customers across Europe, India, the Middle East, and South America
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Optical interconnect startup Celestial AI raises $250m
Brings total raised by the company to $515m
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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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Cerebras plans six new AI data centers in North America and Europe
First facility due to come online in Q2 2025
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ASML and Imec sign five-year agreement to support chip research and sustainability efforts
Partnership will see ASML install its technology at Imec’s European pilot line
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Meta begins testing in-house AI training chips – report
Reportedly manufactured by TSMC
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Altera launches Agilex 3 chips for low-power applications
Company also updates its AI software suite, introduces new package options for MAX 10 FPGAs
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AI startup Juvoly deploys first Nvidia DGX B200 system in Netherlands
System will be hosted at NorthC Datacenters' facility in Rotterdam
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ASML plans 'new' reuse and repair center in Beijing amid ongoing US-China chip war
But report claims it is merely an upgrade of an existing facility
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HPE to cut 2,500 jobs, warns expected semiconductor tariffs will affect server business going forward
CFO Marie Myers said “recent tariff announcements have created uncertainty for our industry”
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Lenovo partners with Krutrim to build India’s largest supercomputer
System will be used to develop Krutrim 3 LLM
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Axelera AI launches inferencing chiplet, supported by funding from EU's RISC-V project
Titania chiplet uses Digital In-Memory Computing architecture
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OpenAI and Oracle to deploy 64,000 GB200 GPUs at Stargate Abilene data center by 2026 – report
Chips will be installed in phases, with 16,000 expected to be in place by end of summer 2024
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SambaNova partners with SoftBank to expand its AI cloud throughout APAC
Will provide developers in the region with access to company’s inferencing services
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Australian startup Cortical Labs unveils 'world’s first' commercial biological computer
Company says its Synthetic Biological Intelligence is a “more advanced and sustainable form of AI”
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QuantWare raises €20m for quantum chip scaling technology
Company claims it can provide pathway to one million qubit processors