SDxCentral Magazine - Issue 2
7-Eleven networks in Taiwan, Verizon’s CTO, OpenAI's networking, and AMD's head of networking tech
News - AI & HPC
The latest news on networking, cloud, and AI infrastructure
Featured
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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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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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SoftBank demos virtual hyperscaler to rival NTT networking standard
SoftBank's wide-area workload shift tech aims to sate AI compute demand regardless of power bottlenecks
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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
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Mysterious Chinese silicon firm joins Lenovo, Naddod as SONiC members
Network ASIC developer Zhanwang joins optics vendor and PC giant as general members
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Nu Quantum CEO on the $15B Q-day networking proposition
Carmen Palacios-Berraquero warns against setting post-quantum network standards too soon
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Cisco and Nvidia: Quantum networks will be hybrid or bust
And open interopability is key
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Quantum networking enters the commercialization stage with zero supply pains
And pesky AI agents to boot, according to all-star quantum panel
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Nebius acquires inference optimization startup Inferize to accelerate AI deployments
Alums behind Intel-acquired Granulate snapped up to cut cold starts and boost GPU efficiency
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Viavi targets 100G AI inference validations with enterprise-scale testing platform
CyberFlood CF50 generates realistic encrypted traffic
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Vdura's storage platform update targets neoclouds with multitenancy and tiering
Storage vendor pitches V12 of its flagship Data platform as a way to keep GPU clouds fed for less
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NetApp expands AI infra push with GPU-optimized storage, metadata discovery
Sovereign controls and OCI partnership part of drive for ‘AI era’ dominance
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Intel and Softbank 'ZAM' memory alternative gets packaging boost
Saimemory to drive production of AI boosting ZAM chips in new MoU with Shinko
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DeepSeek teams up with Huawei to beef up Ascend chip programming tools
Chinese lab taps Microsoft’s TileLang in push for simpler AI programming
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Bell rings up Cisco for Canadian AI sovereignty
Canada compute gets sovereign boost
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GlobalFoundries bets big on photonics to meet soaring Chinese data center demand
Foundry giant balancing eastern infra buildout with U.S. expansion
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NetApp expands AI infra push with Peak:AIo acquisition
Third acquisition in as many months boosts AI cloud storage efforts