More public money funneled into startup

The MoU will run until 2030

Will have landing points across Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, and California when complete in 2028

Will provide developers in the region with access to company’s inferencing services

And signs other Open RAN deals with HPE and StarHub

First on-premise delivery of a Quantinuum system

Group plans to open a new R&D facility later this year

The agreement will see Intel provide chips to support the project

Will collaborate on several initiatives

The service is also free

Acquires spectrum on the tech giant's Canada-Japan cable

Move has been described as “misappropriation” by opposition politicians

The agreement will see the telcos work together to ensure connectivity is available when possible during natural disasters

System will be housed at the company’s IIM-1 fab in Hokkaido

Data center set to go live in March 2026

Plus a roundup of other supercomputing news

Trials found 36 percent energy saving per rack

Efforts supported by Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry

System is set to go live in July 2025

Company expanding its Ishikari data center in Hokkaido to accommodate new hardware

AI platform now has 6,000 GPUs installed

Wants to sell around a third of the stake

DigitalBridge takes a majority stake of 75.62 percent in the business

Samsung will support KDDI's Open RAN deployment in the country