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The latest news from the data center, telco, and cloud sector
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Intel posts flat Q1 2025 revenue, reduces capex and says expect job cuts in Q2
CEO Lip-Bu Tan wants to return Intel to its engineering roots
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GreenSquareDC collaborates with Green Critical Minerals to develop VHD graphite heat sinks
Green Critical claims new material can offer better thermal management than copper or aluminum
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Synopsys announces first-pass silicon success using TSMC N2 process, certifies EDA flows for A16 and N2P technologies
Companies said achievements demonstrate “strengths and innovation” of longstanding partnership
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Intel planning 20,000 more jobs cuts as part of restructuring - report
Second round of layoffs employees have faced in a 12 month period
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Intel CEO shakes up leadership team, appoints new chief technology and AI officer
Multiple business groups will now report directly to Lip-Bu Tan
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Huawei unveils Ascend 920 AI chip, will start shipping 910C to Chinese customers from May – report
Chip launch follows additional US export restrictions on Nvidia H20 GPUs to China
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Bitcoin and AI infrastructure startup Auradine closes $153m funding round
Company also launched new AuraLinks AI business unit
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ASML misses analyst expectations in Q1 2025, says demand “remains strong” despite tariff uncertainty
Company posted net sales of €7.7bn for the three month period
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US gov’t imposes restrictions on Nvidia H20s, chipmaker claims will cost it $5.5bn
Follows Nvidia's announcement it plans to produce AI supercomputers in the US
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Telus to deploy 500 Nvidia Hopper GPUs at Rimouski data center later this year
Canadian telco also planning to expand its Kamloops site to house a supercomputer
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KDDI, Sakura Internet and Hi-Res to establish GPU system in Japan
Companies aim to develop system to enable stable and rapid use of GPUs
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Nvidia GB200s now available 'at scale' on CoreWeave
Early customers include IBM, Mistral AI, and Cohere
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South Korean gov’t announces increase in chips industry support package amidst incoming US tariffs
Government also approved Samsung’s request to increase work week for chip employees above legal maximum
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AMD unveils first 2nm Epyc CPU ‘Venice,’ announces chip production at TSMC Arizona fab
Company’s 6th-gen processor has been taped out on TSMC’s N2 process technology
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Alex Palcuie joins Anthropic's growing AI Reliability Engineering team
Working across GPUs, TPUs, and Trainiums
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Nvidia claims it will make AI supercomputers in the US, with new factories
How many components will be purely US-based is unclear
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Intel sells 51% stake in Altera to Silver Lake for $8.75bn
Intel first acquired the FPGA chip company in 2015 for $16.7bn
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Trump: Chips tariffs still coming, Chinese electronics still taxed but in a “different Tariff ‘bucket’”
President says there will be some flexibility with semiconductor tariffs
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UALink Consortium releases 200G 1.0 specification for AI accelerator interconnects
Group working to establish an open industry standard for AI interconnect solutions
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Sparrow Quantum raises $24m to expand production of photonic quantum chips
Funding round included participation from European Innovation Council
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nEye Systems raises $58m for optical switch technology
Startup has raised $72.5m since founding in 2020
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US gov’t decides not to further restrict Nvidia H20 exports to China, follows Jensen Huang’s visit to Mar-a-Lago
Additional controls were due to come into force this week
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Google Cloud launches instances equipped with 5th Gen AMD Epyc processors
Available via C4D and H4D virtual machines
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NTT launches AI inference chip for low-power video processing at the Edge
Will look to commercialize the offering in 2025
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Oracle and Google expand multicloud offering
Add new regions, bring availability to company partners, and plan new service
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European Commission plans network of AI clusters across continent
Commission also plans to propose Cloud and AI Development Act to triple EU data center capacity
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Axiom Space purchases Kepler on-orbit compute payloads ahead of late-2025 constellation rollout
Axiom advances its orbital data center (ODC) project with strategic collaboration