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NTT Docomo’s venture arm has invested in Ayar Labs, a US startup developing next-generation optical I/O technologies. -
China’s antitrust regulator has opened an investigation into chip-making giant Nvidia over alleged breaches of anti-monopoly behaviours.
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Google has unveiled its latest quantum computing chip, Willow, a next-generation hardware unit that dramatically reduces quantum computational errors and can perform complex calculations exponentially faster than classical supercomputers.
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IBM researchers claim to have uncovered a way for fibre optic-level speeds to work in data centres, unveiling a new co-packaged optic (CPO) module that could revolutionise AI training efforts.
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Elon Musk’s OpenAI rival xAI is set to further expand its Colossus supercomputer facility, with an announcement from the Greater Memphis Chamber claiming the site will scale to a whopping one million GPUs.
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A new supercomputer has come online in the UK that’s set to power AI and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads.
Forthcoming events
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Amazon Web Services announced the general availability of instances powered by its custom Trainium2 and teased its next-generation custom silicon: Trainium3.
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Capacity boldly goes where no data centre has gone before: into space
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The US Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has further tightened export rules for advanced semiconductor shipments to China.
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Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has retired from the company and stepped down from the board of directors as the semiconductor giant tries to turn its fortunes around.
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AMD has released the latest version of its ROCm software stack for GPUs, adding tools to cut down AI development times.
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Qualcomm has reportedly cooled its interest in embattled semiconductor giant Intel after rumours swirled around a possible takeover.
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Just outside of the city of Bologna at the foot of the Apennine Mountains lies a juggernaut of a computing system capable of performing 250 petaFLOPS, that’s 250 quadrillion calculations per second.
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Microsoft has unveiled its first in-house developed DPU, or data processing unit, to equip its cloud servers with an extra performance boost.
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Samsung Electronics has inaugurated its new semiconductor research and development facility, NRD-K, in Korea.
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has unveiled new supercomputing solutions designed to power intense workloads like AI language and multi-modal model training featuring innovative cooling features.
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Amazon has launched a $110 million programme to offer its custom Trainium chips to power generative AI-focused research efforts.
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AMD has unveiled its second-generation Versal adaptive system-on-chips (SoCs) to address the growing demands of data-intensive applications.
