Oct 21, 2026
Samsung Electro-Mechanics and NVIDIA Partner on ABF Substrate Supply
Samsung Electro-Mechanics and NVIDIA will jointly expand ABF substrate production in South Korea under a multiyear supply agreement.
Chips & Data Centers
Advancements in semiconductor technology, GPU development, and data center infrastructure that power AI computing capabilities.
Nov 13
Vertiv launches power panel for 100 kW-plus AI racks
Nov 13
DOE's AI-FORTS program builds AI cyber defences for the energy grid
Nov 13
Huang called Nvidia's interim CEO "a deer in the headlights", WSJ reports
Nov 13
SEMIFIVE's custom AI chip orders jump 437% to a record quarter
Oct 21, 2026
AI Data Center Projects Push Up US Warehouse Demand and Rents
JLL says AI data center construction increased demand for nearby warehouse space and helped raise US industrial rents in the third quarter.
Oct 21, 2026
Memphis City Council Rejects 18 Month Data Center Pause
The Memphis City Council deadlocked on a proposal to pause new data centers and expansions for 18 months while officials develop regulations.
Oct 21, 2026
NVIDIA Brings DSX Power and Cooling Controls to European AI Factories
NVIDIA says its DSX platform can reduce cooling water use and power demand at European AI factories through liquid cooling, dynamic power allocation and grid responsive workload controls.
Oct 21, 2026
Generative Bionics Plans European Robot Training Network With AMD
Generative Bionics plans three Physical AI Data Factory sites to train its GENE.01 humanoid, starting with a 5,000-square-metre hub in Italy, on AMD Helios systems.
Oct 21, 2026
Texas Continued Processing Data Center Permits During Abbott Pause
Texas regulators took 35 permitting actions involving data center projects after Governor Greg Abbott directed agencies to halt approvals.
Oct 21, 2026
Photon Bridge Raises €10 Million for AI Chip Laser Links
Photon Bridge has raised a €10 million seed round for laser sources that link AI chips in data centres with optical connections.
Oct 20, 2026
Pichai Says Google Sacrifices Cloud Revenue for Frontier AI
Google is prioritizing computing capacity for frontier AI research even when that limits the cloud resources it can sell, CEO Sundar Pichai said.
Oct 20, 2026
ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent Place $35 Billion in Nvidia GPU Orders
The three Chinese technology companies ordered more than 3 million RTX PRO 5500 workstation graphics cards, but Nvidia may be unable to supply the requested quantities.
Oct 20, 2026
Filings Link General Catalyst to Proposed $66 Billion Wyoming AI Data Center
Public filings connect General Catalyst and Aethel Energy to a proposed $66 billion AI data center project in Lost Cabin, Wyoming.
Oct 20, 2026
AWS Opens Bedrock Access to OpenAI GPT Models From Canada
AWS now lets customers access OpenAI GPT-5.6, GPT-6 and GPT-6.1 models from its two Canadian regions through Amazon Bedrock.
Oct 20, 2026
Zohran Mamdani Backs Broader New York Data Center Moratorium
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani will urge Governor Kathy Hochul to sign legislation that would expand and codify the state's data center moratorium.
Oct 20, 2026
AMD and Intel Unify PyTorch Optimizations for x86 CPUs
AMD and Intel will combine their PyTorch CPU optimization work in oneDNN, giving developers a common software path across both companies' x86 processors.
Oct 20, 2026
Shadeform launches Spot and Flex VMs for idle GPU capacity
Shadeform launches Spot and Flex VMs, allowing GPU providers to sell unused capacity through its marketplace while retaining access to their hardware.
Oct 20, 2026
Amazon Plans €4.8 Billion AWS Expansion in Germany
Amazon plans to invest more than €16 billion in Germany in 2027, including €4.8 billion for cloud and AI infrastructure in the AWS Frankfurt Region.
Oct 20, 2026
SickKids Expands Azure Use in Five Year Microsoft Deal
SickKids and Microsoft Canada have signed a five year agreement to expand the hospital's use of Azure and explore cloud, analytics and AI tools for pediatric care.
Oct 20, 2026
DeepSeek Open Sources DeepInfer Inference Framework
DeepSeek released its production inference framework DeepInfer under the Apache License 2.0, with support for Nvidia and Huawei hardware.
Oct 20, 2026
Sea Ltd Plans Cloud Business and Reviews Monee Listing
Sea Ltd plans to offer its internal cloud infrastructure to businesses worldwide through a new division called Sea Cloud. The company is also considering a separate stock market listing for its financial services unit, Monee.
Oct 20, 2026
Positron AI sells Atlas inference systems to General Compute, which commits to Titan
Neocloud General Compute will buy Positron AI's Atlas inference systems, available to its customers from Q1 2027, and has committed to Positron's next-generation Titan systems.
Oct 20, 2026
Perplexity and Valarian Bring AI Tools Into Customer Infrastructure
Perplexity and Valarian are partnering to deploy Perplexity's AI tools within infrastructure controlled by customers through Valarian's ACRA environment.
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