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Ongoing labor dispute sees Micron pause construction at its $4.5bn memory fab in Taoyuan, Taiwan – report
Micron is latest memory chip maker to face push back from employees over profit sharing bonuses
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Almost 600,000 Nvidia H200s stranded in Hong Kong as Chinese gov’t stalls on import approvals – report
Some companies have secured limited amount of chips as large-volume shipments remain stalled
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Quint Computing raises €9.1 million for development of fault tolerant quantum computing architecture
German startup was also awarded a €2.2 million Pathfinder grant by the European Innovation Council
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Two dead and five injured following fire at Panasonic chip packaging facility in Taiwan
Fire broke out at 2:00 am local time on November 4
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OpenAI promises to drop NDAs and increase community transparency, following anti-data center wave
Publishes Compute Campus Policy and National Community Compact
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Universal Quantum launches iQPU to help efficiently scale quantum computers
Company says the processor will be integrated into the systems it's currently making for customers
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Nvidia tells data center partners to cut China exposure, limits RTX chip sales to mainland
As both the US and China look to decouple
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SambaNova partners with Supermicro for SN50 RDU deployments
Server maker will initially purchase 10,000 SN50 chips from SambaNova
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Oracle drops Tencent as cloud client, losing multi-billion-dollar contract - report
Comes amidst growing pressure to reduce US companies' ties to Chinese customers
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AMD's data center revenue surges, leads to "largest and most profitable quarter" yet
Blowing off fears of a data center slowdown
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Foxconn details quantum ambitions, wants to become world’s “largest quantum computer manufacturer”
However, technology not expected to be viable for at least two years, company said
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Canada joins EuroHPC JU initiative
Becomes the program’s 39th participating state
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Megaspeed exec with close ties to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang suspected of spying for China
Nvidia and the Chinese Embassy reject claims of targeted spying
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SpaceXAI launching two additional data center campuses in Mississippi to further expand Colossus 2
Sites, dubbed Gun Range and Spam, will both be operational by end of the year, Musk claimed
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman meets with Samsung execs as memory chip shortage deepens
Follows comments made by Altman on a podcast about underutilization of DRAM in desktop computers
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Google's Project Suncatcher runs first workload on orbital TPU, but company admits space data centers cost 100x more than terrestrial
AI poetry proves the system works, but finances remain unclear
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FuriosaAI raises $620m at a post-money valuation of approximately $2.9bn
South Korean chip startup said funds will help accelerate development of its third-generation AI inference chip
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SpiNNcloud rebrands to Sparxity, announces cluster deployment at Jülich center in Germany
Company said rebrand reflects its vision to “only compute what matters”
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Intel says Israel fab explosion will cost company $600m in losses, as Q3 ‘26 revenue hits $16.5bn
Intel Foundry operating losses down QoQ, with chipmaker claiming 14A customer announcements are coming soon
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Lightmatter's lead ASIC engineer Clifford Chao joins OpenAI as silicon lead
Also worked at Google on TPUs
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NTT expands AI data center footprint with Paris and Singapore deployments
Brings company’s AI factory total to four sites across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the Middle East
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Akamai launches AI inference service
Company adds new GPUs to cloud fleet, targets next year for Vera Rubin hardware
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Cerebras chips have shorter lifespans than statements suggest, short-seller report claims
Culper research claims the lifespan “undermines the entire business”
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Bull signs MoU with Czech telco České Radiokomunikace for AI Gigafactory
The agreement also aims to strengthen AI adoption and infrastructure in Central and Eastern Europe
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Extreme Networks fined for channeling networking equipment to Russian missile contractor
Extreme trouble for networking firm after inadvertent sanctions breach
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Blockchain and crypto firm Blockmate Ventures enters neocloud market with purchase of Nvidia B200 cluster
Company has partnered with Scannit for the venture, with the latter to host the hardware in an undisclosed data center
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NIP Group agrees $27.3m Bitcoin mining hardware deal
E-sports company continues to expand Bitcoin mining efforts
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Nvidia Vera Rubin and Vera CPUs now generally available on Oracle
And other AI hardware deployments soon to arrive