System would allow companies to process up to 330 wafers an hour, up from 220 at present

First gigawatt scheduled for deployment later this year, with companies to align across silicon, systems, and software roadmaps

Funding round included participation from BlackRock, European Investment Council Fund, and Samsung Catalyst Fund

Chip will support agentic AI workloads, with SoftBank named as first customer for new hardware offering

Deal values the quantum computing company at $1.8 billion

Working with academia and industry

New identity reflects its “greater impact from reshaping storage to defining the future of data management”

Company has raised more than $200m since emerging from stealth in 2024

Generative AI giant is seeking a $730 billion valuation

Comments made after celebratory dinner with engineers from Nvidia and memory chipmaker SK Hynix

Company merged with special purpose acquisition company Churchill X last year

Microsoft Research Cambridge has published its findings on the benefits of borosilicate glass in science journal Nature

Company will also establish APAC’s largest Nvidia DGX Cloud cluster

Agreement represents the first “large-scale” Nvidia Grace-only deployment

Japanese chipmaker will gain access to GF’s FD-SOI platform, amongst other technologies

Companies will codevelop AI infrastructure based on AMD’s forthcoming Helios platform

Trump official previously accused research lab of being “one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country”

A second IQM system of 150 qubits will be installed by the end of 2026

Startup also opening lab in San Francisco's Mission Bay

Company says its approach is more precise than conventional methods

Australian quantum computing is now searching for a permanent new chief executive

Penalty is twice the value of the illegal shipments made by the company

Chinese tech company expecting to receive sample chips by end of March

Latest funding round saw company valued at $1bn