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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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Rescale Secures $115M Series D
SAN FRANCISCO — April 7, 2025 — Rescale, a digital engineering platform, today announced a $115 million Series D with participation from Applied Ventures, Atika...
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HPC News Bytes 20250407: Tariffs and the Technology Industry, Intel-TSMC Deal?, DARPA Taps Wafer Scale, Sandia and Laser-Based Cooling, Optical I/O News
Good April day to you! It was a wild week for more than the HPC-AI sector last week, here’s a brief (7:39) look at some key developments: U.S. tariffs, the technology...
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Report: TSMC to Operate Intel Fabs under Tentative Joint Venture
The online technology publication The Information reported today that Intel and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company have reached a tentative agreement to...
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Sandia Labs Tests Laser-Based Photonic Data Center Cooling
Minnesota-based startup Maxwell Labs has entered into an R&D agreement with Sandia and the University of New Mexico to demonstrate laser-based photonic cooling...
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Alice & Bob Selected by DARPA for the Quantum Benchmarking Initiative
Boston and Paris – April 3, 2025 – Fault-tolerant quantum computing company Alice & Bob today announces its selection as a performer in the U.S. Defense Advanced...
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Data Center Cooling: PFCC and ENEOS Collaborate on Materials R&D with NVIDIA ALCHEMI Software
March 31, 2025 — Preferred Computational Chemistry Inc. (PFCC) announces that it will team up with ENEOS Corp. to enable AI-driven formulation optimization of chemicals...
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Lightmatter Announces Passage L200, Co-Packaged Optics for AI
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.– Photonic supercomputing company Lightmatter announced Passage L200, which the company said is the first 3D co-packaged optics (CPO) product...
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Ansys, Baker Hughes, and Oak Ridge Report Supercomputing Record on Frontier Exascale Supercomputer
PITTSBURGH, April 1, 2025 – Ansys (NASDAQ: ANSS) today announced results from the largest commercial Fluent CFD simulation ever run on AMD Instinct MI250X GPUs....
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DARPA Tabs Cerebras and Ranovus for Military and Commercial Platform
AI compute company Cerebras Systems said it has been awarded a new contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop a system combining...
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Lumen and Ciena Report 1.2 Tbps Wavelength Service from Denver to Dallas
Lumen Technologies and Ciena recently reported they have established a 1.2 terabit wavelength service trial across 3,050 kilometers (more than 1,800 miles) on Lumen's...
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Optical I/O: Ayar Labs Launches 8 Tbps UCIe Optical Chiplet for AI Scale-Up Architectures
Optical interconnect company Ayar Labs announced the TeraPHY optical I/O chiplet, which Ayar said is the first optical Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe)...
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TSMC Holds 2nm Capacity Expansion Ceremony, Volume Production Slated for Second Half of Year
TSMC today held a 2 nanometer (2nm) capacity expansion ceremony at the construction site of Fab 22 in the Southern Taiwan Science Park (STSP), bringing together...
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AI Factory: AMD in $4.9 Billion Acquisition of ZT Systems
On the heels of winning a 30,000 GPU cluster deal with Oracle, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced a move into the AI infrastructure arena, reflecting a trend toward...
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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute E6 Shapes Powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC CPUs
SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 31, 2025 — Today, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announced 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors power the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Compute E6 Standard...
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Pasqal Selected for 140-Qubit Quantum Computer to Be Hosted at CINECA
March 27, 2025 — Pasqal, a neutral-atom quantum computing company, announced the signing of the procurement contract with the European High Performance Computing...
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Fluidstack to Deploy Exascale GPU Clusters in Europe with NVIDIA, Borealis Data Center and Dell
March 25, 2025 – Fluidstack, an AI cloud platform, announced it is deploying and managing exascale clusters across Iceland and Europe in collaboration with Borealis...
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Hyperscale Data Completes First Installation of Nvidia GPUs for HPC Customer
LAS VEGAS, March 28, 2025 — Hyperscale Data, Inc. (NYSE American: GPUS), a diversified holding company, today announced the successful installation of its first...
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Gates Announces Large-Diameter Hose for Data Center Cooling
DENVER, March 28, 2025—Gates (NYSE: GTES), a manufacturer of power transmission and fluid power solutions, today announced the launch of Data Master MegaFlex, a...
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CIQ Fuzzball Federation Capabilities for Deployment of AI and HPC Workloads Across Regions, Clouds and Data Centers
March 27, 2025, Reno, Nev. – CIQ today announced the availability of federation capabilities in their Fuzzball performance-intensive computing platform. This release...
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