Nvidia’s Groq deal facing DOJ probe amid regulator scrutiny into acqui-hires: report
Justice Department investigation joins FTC inquiry into potential de facto big tech mergers
News - IT Hardware & Semiconductors, Ben Wodecki, SDxCentral
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
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Huawei bets big on near-packaged optics with 7.2T module to fuel AI scaling
Vendor champions open NPO play over CPO for AI networks
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Optics startup Quintessent secures $40m to revolutionize interconnects for AI
Ciena among backers of DWDM link player using gallium arsenide over supply-chain-constrained indium phosphide
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Nvidia’s ultra-low-latency AI inference LPX racks hit full production
Neocloud Nebius among early adopters of platform promising 4x faster responsiveness for AI agents
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Could a tiny ‘rainbow’ chip be the key to faster 6G communications?
Scientists develop rice-sized chip for next-gen millimeter-wave connectivity
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Arista smashes revenue records with $3bn+; CEO bullish on supply chain overhaul
Multi-year purchase commitments triple as Arista tightens supply to push further into non-Nvidia accelerator networking
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Meta rebuilds its AI storage stack from the ground up to stop GPUs sitting idle
An inside look at how the wannabe cloud provider cuts data wait times by up to 97 percent
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Marvell boosts custom silicon push with AMD engineering lead hire
Engineering lead behind AMD EPYC efforts joins custom XPU team
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Stop shrinking, start speeding: Huawei says it has found a way past Moore's Law
Huawei’s τ Scaling Law argues the future of chips lies in time, not transistor size
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Cisco plans to bring SONiC foundation to customers beyond just hyperscalers
Blog post inadvertently reveals SONiC support for data center switches will extend to enterprises, neoclouds
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AMD debuts MI350 PCIe card to accelerate enterprise AI workloads
Chip giant extends accelerator peripheral lineup as it looks to meet bandwidth-booming workload demands
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Everpure, formerly Pure Storage, now 70% more expensive amid memory crunch
CEO defends delicate pricing moment for Everpure and promises it's not profiteering
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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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Google's 105-qubit Willow quantum processor opens for early access
Researchers invited to use not-yet-public chip that’s five times more reliable than its predecessor
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Corning unveils suite of next-gen optical tech to connect AI data centers
Multicore fiber and CPO offerings on display at OFC 2026
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Nvidia pumps $2bn into optical developer Lumentum
Agreement bolsters R&D and manufacturing efforts while securing Nvidia's future access rights to critical laser components
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Taara launches photonics chip to break bottlenecks with light-based connectivity
CEO details how the innovation, which shrinks free space optics into a fingernail-sized piece of hardware, could extend to data centers and space
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Next-gen switches & servers: Everything unveiled at Cisco Live EMEA 2026
Showcase in Amsterdam debuts 100Tbps network silicon, ultra-high bandwidth pluggable optics, and a unified control plane
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Nvidia's BlueField Astra brings unified network control to AI clusters
Next-gen Rubin platform will see DPUs help control all network I/O to and from the compute node
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AI's appetite for copper poses a 'systemic risk' to data center buildout
First memory chips. Then lasers. Now, copper looks to be the next commodity to pose ‘systemic risk’ to the digital infrastructure space
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GlobalFoundries expands silicon photonic production with AMF acquisition
Singaporean firm builds photonic hardware for use in telecoms and networks
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Nvidia enlists Arm as NVLink Fusion partner in major AI interconnect coup
Neoverse integration means custom hardware from AWS, Google, and Microsoft can integrate with Nvidia GPUs
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Nvidia reveals next-gen DPU to help offload gigascale AI infrastructure
BlueField-4 and new ConnectX-9 SuperNIC set to launch as part of the 2026 Vera Rubin slate
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AWS builds separate cabinet to bypass Nvidia networking hardware
Hyperscaler couldn’t fit its custom network cards in Nvidia’s racks, so it built a sidecar
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Fujitsu, Nvidia partner to power AI agents with custom AI infrastructure
Japanese giant’s Monaka CPUs will combine with Nvidia hardware to support industry-specific AI agents
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Nvidia hires staff from networking firm Enfabrica, and signs tech license in $900m deal - report
Apparently secures Nvidia licenses for GPU interconnect solutions
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Ericsson joins AstraZeneca, Saab in Swedish AI infrastructure JV
Linköping-based venture aims to establish one of Sweden's largest enterprise AI supercomputers
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Nvidia opens NVLink fabric to hyperscaler custom silicon
Deep-dive on scale-up tech shows how NVLink Fusion will let rivals integrate their hardware with Nvidia AI infrastructure