TSMC today said it will expand its investment in advanced semiconductor manufacturing in the U.S. by an additional $100 billion. Building on the company’s ongoing $65 billion investment in its advanced chip fabs in Phoenix, TSMC’s total investment in the U.S. is expected to reach $165 billion.
HPC News Bytes 20250303: DOGE and Fears at U.S. Science Agencies, Cat Qubits for AWS Quantum, GPUs vs. ASICs for AI Compute
March 3, 2025 by Leave a Comment
A happy start to March to you! We offer a quick (8:28) run through recent news from the world of HPC-AI, including: DOGE-led government layoffs and funding disruptions at U.S. ….
SoftBank, ZutaCore and Foxconn Join on Rack-Integrated Solution with Liquid Cooling for NVIDIA H200s
February 28, 2025 by
Feb. 28, 2025 — SoftBank Corp., ZutaCore and Hon Hai Technology Group (Foxconn) today announced that they implemented ZutaCore’s two-phase direct liquid cooling technology*1 in an AI server using NVIDIA accelerated computing. The companies said this is the first implementation*2 of ZutaCore’s two-phase DLC*1 using NVIDIA H200 GPUs. In addition, SoftBank designed and developed a rack-integrated […]
Quantum Machines Raises $170M Series C
February 25, 2025 by
February 25, 2025 — Quantum Machines (QM), a provider of quantum control solutions, today announced it has raised $170 million in Series C funding, bringing the company’s total funding to date to $280 million. The investment comes as the majority of quantum computing companies now rely on QM’s technology to build and scale their systems, according to […]
Toward 1M Qubits? Microsoft Quantum Chip Is Based on ‘New State of Matter’
February 19, 2025 by
Microsoft today said its new quantum chip is the first to be powered by a new Topological Core architecture that “will realize quantum computers capable of solving meaningful, industrial-scale problems in years ….
Exascale: GE Aerospace Goes Airborne with Frontier and Aurora
February 14, 2025 by
Since 2022, GE Aerospace (NYSE: GE) has competed successfully for more than 3 million supercomputing hours under a U.S. Department of Energy peer-reviewed proposal process, incuding time on two of the three American exascale supercomputers — Frontier ….
Toward AGI: AI Innovation Will Be Driven by Applications, Not LLMs
February 13, 2025 by
DeepSeek’s LLM has caused a stir, but … companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are aiming higher, their sights are set on artificial general intelligence, for which LLMs will be a component. No matter how fast, powerful, or efficient they get, LLMs alone won’t be enough to achieve AGI.
HPE Ships Its First NVIDIA Grace Blackwell System
February 13, 2025 by
HOUSTON – FEBRUARY 13, 2025 – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE:HPE) announced today that it has shipped its first NVIDIA Blackwell family-based solution, the NVIDIA GB200 NVL72. This rack-scale system by HPE is designed to help service providers and large enterprises quickly deploy very large, complex AI clusters with advanced, direct liquid cooling solutions to optimize efficiency and performance. […]
Applied Digital Closes $375M Financing with SMBC to Support HPC Campus
February 12, 2025 by
DALLAS, Feb. 12, 2025 — Applied Digital Corporation (Nasdaq: APLD), a builder of digital infrastructure for HPC applications, announced today that the company, through its HPC subsidiary APLD HPC Holdings LLC (“APLDH”), closed a $375 million financing with Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) of Japan. The company used a portion of the proceeds to repay […]
Laser-Based LightSolver Partners With Ansys on CAE
February 11, 2025 by
TEL AVIV – February 11, 2025 – LightSolver, inventors of a new laser-based computing paradigm, today announced a partnership with Ansys (NASDAQ: ANSS), a provider of engineering simulation software. Following a successful test run on LightSolver’s platform, the two companies are working to integrate LightSolver’s technology with Ansys LS-DYNA nonlinear dynamics structural simulation software to accelerate […]
