HPC News Bytes 20251006: Quantum (Information) Supremacy at UT Austin, Big Cloud Balances BYO vs Merchant AI Chips, Surprise Players in AI Infrastructure Market

Good October day to you! HPC-AI, the industry that never sleeps, has served up its usual stew of news of late, here’s a fast (8:38) review of recent developments: University of Texas at Austin researchers report provable quantum ….

Cerebras Raises $1.1B at $8.1B Valuation

Cerebras Systems’ dinner plate-size chip technology has been a curiosity since the company introduced the Wafer Scale Engine in 2019. But it’s become more than just a curiosity to the AI industry — and to the venture community. Today, Cerebras announced an oversubscribed $1.1 billion Series G funding round at $8.1 billion valuation. This as […]

Schneider Electric Unveils Liquid Cooling Portfolio for HPC and AI

Rueil-Malmaison, France, September 29, 2025 – Schneider Electric today unveiled its portfolio of end-to-end liquid cooling solutions for hyperscale, colocation and high-density data center environments, engineered to enable the AI factories. Available globally, the Motivair by Schneider Electric cooling solutions meet the power and GPU-intensive demands of high-density data centers reliably, and at scale. The complete […]

Fourier Cooling Launches Prefab Data Centers for HPC and AI

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 29, 2025 — Fourier Cooling Solutions, an AI and HPC data center infrastructure company, today announced its launch and introduced prefabricated, containerized data centers engineered to scale with the evolution of GPUs, CPUs for artificial intelligence and high-performance computing. With GPUs and high-computing servers increasing in power density, liquid cooling has become the […]

HPC News Bytes 20250929: ‘World Models’ Next Big AI Thing?, ‘Central Park-Sized’ Data Centers, Silicon Cooling Advancement, How to Tame a 6K+ Qubit Array

Good late-September morning to you! The HPC-AI world last week barreled ahead at breakneck ….

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.”

Cloudera Announces Data Platform Updates

Santa Clara, CA — Sept. 25, 2025 — Cloudera today announced updates to its platform, specifically Cloudera Iceberg REST Catalog and Cloudera Lakehouse Optimizer, both “strengthening the company’s commitment to delivering the best open data lakehouse powered by Iceberg,” the company said. With these updates, Iceberg REST Catalog provides open interoperability for sharing data seamlessly, […]

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.

Nortek Data Center Cooling Unveils Skidded CDU with Multi-Megawatt Capacity

OKLAHOMA CITY, September 24, 2025 – Nortek Data Center Cooling (Nortek DCC), a Madison Air company, today announced the launch of its Skidded Coolant Distribution Unit (CDU), a liquid cooling solution engineered for high-density AI, HPC and hyperscalers. Designed to scale beyond 5 megawatts, the skidded CDU delivers precision cooling while reducing on-site labor, accelerating deployment timelines and lowering […]

NVIDIA Says It Will Invest up to $100B in OpenAI

OpenAI and NVIDIA today announced a partnership to deploy at least 10 gigawatts of NVIDIA systems for OpenAI’s AI infrastructure to train its models in puruit of superintelligence. NVIDIA intends to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI ….