Sep 8, 2026
ADP Expands AWS Partnership for HR and Payroll AI
AWS will serve as ADP's strategic cloud provider as the companies expand their work on AI agents, application migration, and workforce data services.
Chips & Data Centers
Advancements in semiconductor technology, GPU development, and data center infrastructure that power AI computing capabilities.
Sep 29
Efficient Computer Raises $97 Million to Scale Its Processors
Sep 29
Hikvision Adds HIKO AI Engine to Hik-Connect 7
Sep 29
Compal to Show NVIDIA AI Factory Infrastructure at OCP Summit
Sep 29
Cerebras to Supply 100 Megawatts of AI Systems to Gimlet Labs
Sep 8, 2026
Alif Semiconductor Launches $49 Edge AI Evaluation Boards
Alif Semiconductor introduced the SK-B1 and SK-E1C StartKit evaluation boards for its Balletto and Ensemble microcontrollers. Each board combines an Arm Cortex-M55 CPU with an Ethos-U55 neural processing unit for local AI inference.
Sep 8, 2026
Veridue Raises $4 Million for AI Energy Due Diligence
The London company will expand its platform for managing renewable energy and data centre transactions.
Sep 8, 2026
China Has 1.75 Million Cloud Native Developers, CNCF Report Finds
A CNCF and SlashData report estimates that China has 1.75 million cloud native developers, including about 400,000 working on AI.
Sep 8, 2026
SEMIFIVE Starts Mass Production of HyperAccel Bertha AI Chip
SEMIFIVE has started mass production of HyperAccel's Bertha AI inference accelerator using Samsung Foundry's 4nm process.
Sep 8, 2026
iPronics Raises $125 Million for Optical AI Data Center Networking
iPronics raised $125 million in Series B funding to expand production and deployment of its programmable optical networking platform for AI data centers.
Sep 7, 2026
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang Says GPT-6 Astra Marks AGI Arrival
Jensen Huang says OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra represents the arrival of artificial general intelligence. He also says the model trained on more than 100,000 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell NVLink72 systems.
Sep 7, 2026
Anthropic signs $517 billion in compute agreements over 11 months
Anthropic signed compute agreements valued at about $517 billion over the past 11 months, covering 14.8 gigawatts of capacity.
Sep 7, 2026
Hyosung Targets US AI Power Market With 22.9kV Transformer
Hyosung Heavy Industries plans to pursue US AI and data center power projects with a 22.9kV solid state transformer that can connect directly to urban distribution networks.
Sep 7, 2026
BYD Expands In House Automotive Chip Production With Xuanji A3
BYD has expanded its semiconductor operations from power control devices to processors for smart driving systems. Its Xuanji A3 chip has entered scaled production using a 4 nm automotive process.
Sep 5, 2026
MINISFORUM Unveils Two Local AI Systems With AMD Ryzen AI
MINISFORUM introduced the MS-S1 MAX-P495 workstation and N5 MAX-P495 storage system for local AI workloads at IFA 2026.
Sep 5, 2026
Global chip equipment billings rise 23% to $40.53 billion
Global semiconductor equipment billings reached $40.53 billion in the second quarter of 2026, up 23% from a year earlier and 11% from the previous quarter.
Sep 5, 2026
ASUS Expands AI Infrastructure From Cloud to Edge
ASUS has expanded its AI infrastructure portfolio with new Intel and AMD servers, industrial edge systems, and partnerships across computing, storage, energy, and software.
Sep 5, 2026
Stäubli Combines Power and Liquid Cooling Connections for AI Data Centers
Stäubli has introduced integrated electrical power and liquid cooling connections for high density AI data centers, including systems compatible with Open Rack v3.
Sep 5, 2026
BUUU Group Agrees to Acquire 60% of Brightray Science
BUUU Group agreed to acquire a 60% stake in modular data center provider Brightray Science and signed private placements that could help generate more than $60 million.
Sep 5, 2026
CollPlant Acquires LightSolver and Enters Photonic Computing
CollPlant Biotechnologies has completed its acquisition of LightSolver, an Israeli company developing a laser based computing platform.
Sep 4, 2026
Ramp Adds Finance Platform to AWS Marketplace
Ramp has signed a strategic collaboration agreement with Amazon Web Services and made its finance platform available through AWS Marketplace.
Sep 4, 2026
Vobile and UNN Plan AI Factories in Brunei
Vobile and Unified National Networks have signed agreements to operate AI factories at a new data center in Brunei. UNN will allocate 25 MW of capacity to Vobile and reserve another 25 MW for expansion.
Sep 4, 2026
Nscale Signs $3.5 Billion Compute Deal With Figure
Nscale has agreed to provide Figure with an initial $3.5 billion in computing resources for its Helix models and humanoid robots.
Sep 4, 2026
Sharon AI Picks Rafay to Orchestrate Up to 150,000 GPUs
Sharon AI signed a five year agreement to use Rafay Systems as a central operations layer for its AI infrastructure. The architecture is designed to support up to 150,000 GPUs.
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