SDxCentral Magazine - Issue 2
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News - The Silicon & Supercomputing Channel
The latest news on networking, cloud, and AI infrastructure
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Nvidia targets 15x optics capacity expansion by 2027 to meet CPO demand
CEO Jensen Huang says ‘capacity is the constraint’
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Nvidia GTC Berlin keynote disrupted by Greenpeace activists
‘Nvidia, clean up your dirty business,’ - protesters heckle Jensen Huang
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Nvidia wraps OpenShell around full-stack silicon to stop AI agents going rogue
OpenShell guardrails stretched from edge to the data center
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Nvidia launches DSX POD, claims Vera Rubin will make AI data centers more efficient
Details released at GTC Berlin event, taking place this week
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NTT wins support for quantum network interoperability talks
Industry executives backed further discussion of the networks needed to connect quantum computers, AI infrastructure, and data centers
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Toshiba brings shared-hub design to quantum-safe networking
The QSN Platform uses optical switching to serve multiple sites from shared equipment
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Huawei targets ‘zero-outage networks’ with all-optical LIGHTS concept
Vendor outlines target-state spec for optical connectivity
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NTT DoCoMo taps Classiq to bring quantum software to enterprise customers
Telecom vendor's ICT arm will sell Classiq’s development platform and help Japanese enterprises build and test quantum applications
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Cisco-backed chiplet interconnect upstart in line for acquisition: report
Early talks with Arm led to nothing, but investors reportedly informed of purchase
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Man behind Netflix’s data center network cut in brutal layoffs
6% of its global workforce were slashed, including architects and software engineers
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IonQ targets enterprise security with up to $1.3B Elisity deal
The proposed acquisition pairs quantum-safe cryptography with controls that limit who and what can communicate across a network
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AMD, Intel back optical upstart pushing for denser photonics inside AI racks
Salience Labs banks on strategic silicon diversity for its optical circuit switches
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Celestica debuts liquid-cooled CPO switch for AI fabrics
DS6005 targets AI network efficiency through Broadcom switch silicon
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Ultra Ethernet Consortium releases Version 1.1 to boost scale-up networking and congestion control
Standard update targets AI network bottlenecks
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Meta details next-gen AI infra: Custom multiterabit switches & unified fabrics
OCP provides a glimpse at the stack set to power Muse agent workloads
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Cisco nabs Nvidia for pluggable power up, snuggles closer to SONiC
More power out and less power consumption
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Nvidia gears up to smash CPU hegemony as Vera starts shipping
Dedicated ‘discrete’ processor platform segregates agentic workloads from NVL72 to boost performance
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Nvidia adds Google Falcon support to meet growing transport diversity demands
Falcon swoops in to join MRC
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Meta builds custom 'IceCube' AI network switch using Nvidia's Spectrum-6 ASICs
Switch pairs FBOSS OS with 102T chip for 100K+ GPU clusters
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Nvidia opens up Vera Rubin rack and tray designs to OCP
MGX 1.2 spec doubles down on liquid cooling
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AMD unveils Helion rack to support agentic AI workloads
Company says rack is customizable, with CPU-only version available
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CoreWeave entices Google engineering VP to lead compute and storage teams
Google Distributed Cloud engineering VP follows Chen Goldberg across
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Astera Labs to extend PCIe 7 for copper and optical connections
‘Industry first’ portfolio looks to bridge copper-to-optical divide to drive AI infra scaling
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Nvidia-backed Upscale unveils fabric that lets engineers break vendor lock-in and mix rival XPUs
Upscale’s Token Fabric to create network bridge for the dream of heterogeneous computing
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Lambda poaches AWS director to lead software and AI networking engineering
Fiachra Groarke joins neocloud given early access to Nvidia CPO switches
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EU backs QIA quantum network prototype with $53M grant
The 42-month program aims to connect two metropolitan quantum networks over long-distance fiber using quantum repeaters
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Seagate, Toshiba compete to buy the bit that actually records data on their drives: report
Pair battling it out for TDK's hard drive head unit so it can focus on batteries and sensors
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Clockwork.io secures $31M to keep AI workloads resilient against infra failures
LinkedIn and WhiteFiber tapping software suite to prevent GPU downtime