Bezos: Space-based Gigawatt Data Center in a Decade-Plus

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, speaking at the Italian Tech Week conference, this week predicted a gigawatt-scale data center will be running in space within the next 10-plus years. A key reason to place massive data centers in space ….

SiPearl Launches Sovereign HPC Processor Athena1

SiPearl, the European fabless designer of sovereign processors for HPC, AI and data centers, today announced the launch of the Athena1 processor for dual-use applications. Based on Rhea1, SiPearl’s first generation ….

VDURA Selected for Large Defense GPU Installation

AI and HPC infrastructure company VDURA, formerly called Panasas, today announced it has been selected by a Tier-1 U.S. federal system integrator to support a large defense GPU deployment. While details ….

Quantum: ‘Optical Tweezers’ Help Caltech Researchers Claim Qubit Record

Caltech physicists report they have created the largest qubit array assembled to-date: 6,100 neutral-atom qubits trapped in a grid by lasers. Previous arrays of this kind contained only hundreds of qubits.

How MiTAC Helps Organizations Scale for Both AI Training and Inference

“Our design philosophy is centered around our customers. They need solutions that are not just technically advanced but also seamlessly integrated, easily scalable, and reliable.”

Microsoft: In-Chip ‘Microfluidics’ Improves Silicon Cooling 3X

Microsoft reported today it has successfully tested a new cooling system that removed heat up to three times better than cold plates. The system is called microfluidics, an approach that brings liquid coolant directly inside the silicon.

Microsoft Standing up $3.3B ‘Most Powerful’ AI Data Center in Wisconsin with $4B Facility to Follow

In its not-so-modest opinion, Microsoft calls it the world’s most powerful AI data center. In a blog post from vice chair and president Brad Smith, he calls it ….

Chandrasekaran to Receive ACM Computing Honor

The University of Delaware announced that Professor Sunita Chandrasekaran has been named winner of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)’s SIGHPC Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing Award ….

NVIDIA Takes Surprise Stake in Intel

The implications, the possibilities, the sheer surprise of today’s news that NVIDIA has taken a $5 billion stake in Intel has come as a shock to the tech system. Wall Street was staggered as well, boosting Intel stock by more than 30 percent ….

Partnership Formed for UK AI Infrastructure

NVIDIA announced that it is investing in accelerating the AI industrial revolution in the United Kingdom, working with partners including CoreWeave, Microsoft and Nscale to build the nation’s AI infrastructure.