IBM mainframe chip to run Arm and Z workloads on the same cores
Two worlds on one chip
News - Sebastian Moss, DatacenterDynamics
The latest news on networking, cloud, and AI infrastructure
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Former architect for Google's Global Internet Edge & CDN network infrastructure joins SpaceX-xAI
Paul Schultz joins the Starlink company ahead of IPO
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Intel teases Crescent Island AI data center GPU, supports up to 480GB of LPDDR5X
Air-cooled GPU for inference workloads
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Nvidia Vera CPU enters full production, pitched at agentic AI workloads
New rack to feature 256 liquid-cooled Vera CPUs
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says company has $1T in orders through 2027
Up from $500 billion a year ago
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DARPA launches PICASSO program to revolutionize very large-scale photonic circuits
Seeking proposals to scale up circuits for transceivers, accelerators, and other chip types
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US launches Genesis Mission, training AI with government datasets to further science
Will use DOE supercomputers and the cloud
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Major Cloudflare outage brings down sites around the world (including SDx)
Smaller platforms like ChatGPT and X also impacted as malicious attack ruled out
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Microsoft Azure reports issues, a day after increased latencies at AWS
None seem to be full outages, but have caused problems
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Major AWS outage brings down much of the web
Perplexity, Snapchat, Fortnite, Airtable, Canva, Amazon, Slack, and more
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OpenAI's Stargate hiring for principal network engineer to define global routing and backbone architecture
Connecting millions of GPUs around the world for training and inference
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Oracle appoints Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia as co-CEOs
Safra Catz becomes executive vice chair of the board
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Nvidia pulls back on its own cloud platform, per report
DGX Cloud gets reworked, will mostly be for internal research
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KKR hires former AWS CEO Adam Selipsky for AI and tech advisor role
As it spends billions on its data center buildout
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Oracle continues widespread layoffs across U.S., India, Philippines, and beyond
The company has yet to communicate the move internally or externally
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US government takes 10% stake in Intel
Intel CEO agrees to $8.9B deal after recent Trump calls for his resignation
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Significant layoffs at Oracle, job cuts impact US and India OCI teams
Scale of the cuts not yet known
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Trump: Expect ~100% semiconductor tariffs – unless on the make in America
Specifics were lacking from the U.S. president
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Global data center capex projected to grow to $1.2tn by 2029
50GW of new capacity expected in five years, Dell’Oro says
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8.8 magnitude earthquake causes Internet outages in Kamchatka, Russia
And tsunami warnings across the Pacific
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Chip designer Qualcomm to buy competitor Alphawave Semi for $2.4bn in data center push
High-speed wired connectivity and compute company to move under Qualcomm
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AWS' quantum general manager joins Google
Simone Severini retains professorship at UCL
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Qualcomm announces data center CPUs, will support Nvidia's NVLink Fusion
After lawsuits and delays impacted its data center return
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Microsoft cuts 6,000 jobs as it continues AI spend
Azure engineers impacted as company cuts three percent of staff
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Silicon Valley Power stockpiles discontinued GE Vernova JMUX, expects substation costs to go up with tariffs
As it ramps up substation buildout to meet data center demand