SDxCentral Magazine - Issue 2
7-Eleven networks in Taiwan, Verizon’s CTO, OpenAI's networking, and AMD's head of networking tech
News - The Silicon & Supercomputing Channel, AWS
The latest news on networking, cloud, and AI infrastructure
Featured
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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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Cisco turns Splunk green with Nvidia compute
AI Pod solution sees Splunk's debut on Nvidia's on-premises accelerated computing
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Qualcomm returns to data center market with multigeneration AWS AI deal
Custom silicon and optics part of strategic partnership
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Nvidia expands NVLink Fusion strategy to supercharge custom silicon memory
AWS taps new NVHBM to accelerate Trainium4 infrastructure
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AWS expands compute-optimized Graviton5 instances with C9g and C9gd VMs
Instances feature boosted performance and secure isolation for intensive workloads
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AWS raises GPU Capacity Block prices again as AI demand outstrips supply
Price hikes for GPU reservation service jump for the second time in just six months
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AWS unveils sovereign-centric micro serverless virtual machines
Hyperscaler leans on its Firecracker tech to power isolated environment offering
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QuEra, AWS target fault-tolerant quantum computing on Amazon Braket by 2028
Planned Libra system aims to feature more than 256 error-corrected logical qubits and target Megaquop-scale performance
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CIQ launches Fuzzball 4.0 to simplify HPC and AI infrastructure orchestration
Update adds native object caching and cross-platform orchestration
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AWS launches Graviton5-powered EC2 instances
New processor doubles core counts as AWS targets emerging agentic AI workloads
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AWS adopts random graph network architecture as default cloud fabric
Resilient Network Graphs architecture cuts router counts by 69% while reducing network power consumption by 40%
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Kubernetes efficiency is going backwards as AI drives GPU waste
Report finds average GPU utilization at 5% across enterprise clusters
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AWS partners with big chip co. Cerebras for AI 'inference disaggregation'
Will be deployed on Amazon Bedrock in AWS data centers
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Top 5 hardware stories of 2025: Broadcom-OpenAI, AWS doubles down on custom & Nvidia marches on
AWS doubles down on custom silicon and the looming memory crisis to come
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AMD poaches AWS leader for Helios rack development
Arvind Balakumar leaves hyperscaler for Ethernet scale up venture
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AWS expands custom silicon push with homegrown fiber optic transponders
Custom hardware delivers 73% more bandwidth while cutting power consumption by 35%
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Cloudian enlists AWS, Nvidia to power pay-as-you-go edge AI service
Vendor’s HyperScale AI Data platform to meet increasing demand for data sovereignty
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OpenAI signs U.K. data residency deal
New arrangements to kick in from Friday
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AWS builds separate cabinet to bypass Nvidia networking hardware
Hyperscaler couldn’t fit its custom network cards in Nvidia’s racks. So it built a sidecar
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Red Hat, SUSE rival hyperscalers in Gartner container rankings
Hyperscalers dominate in latest Magic Quadrant list as VMware struggles while China's cloud leaders rise
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AWS launches Blackwell-powered instances, boosts SageMaker AI tools
Cloud giant debuts its most powerful EC2 instances ever and tools to make it easier for enterprises to build their own AI models
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Amazon faces DPU patent lawsuit over Nitro server infringement
Xockets claims Amazon execs met the firm to learn about its DPU tech, then implemented it in millions of servers without permission
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IonQ's Forte Enterprise available on Amazon's Braket quantum computing service
Joins company’s Aria-1, Aria-2, and Forte on the service
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STMicroelectronics unveils new data center photonics chip for AI workload interconnects
The PIC100 offering is the first from STMicroelectronics' new product portfolio
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AWS Trainium's lead mechanical thermal engineer joins OpenAI
Kenny Huynh moves to generative AI company
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Amazon's Kuiper nabs Google custom chip director to build space silicon
Maruthy Vedam goes from TPUs to satellite semiconductors
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AWS offers instances using HPE Compute Scale-up Server 3200
Ideal for large in-memory databases
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Marvell Technology signs five-year cloud computing deal with AWS
Chip firm seals mutually beneficial agreement with cloud provider