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PALO ALTO, Calif.- Nov. 5, 2025 - D-Wave Quantum and services, and chemical company BASF today announced the completion of a joint proof-of-concept project that used a hybrid-quantum application to optimize manufacturing workflows in a BASF liquid-filling facility. The hybrid-quantum technology set a new benchmark for manufacturing efficiency, allowing reduction of production scheduling time from [...]The post BASF and D-Wave Announce PoC with Manufacturing Benchmark appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, NVIDIA and HPE will seek to open insights into quantum computing and identify strategies ....The post Oak Ridge, NVIDIA, HPE Team to Integrate Quantum, AI and HPC for Science appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

ARMONK, N.Y.,Nov. 4, 2025 -IBM (NYSE:IBM) today announced that IBM Fusion has delivered one of the industry's first implementations of theNVIDIA AI Data Platformreference design, featuringNVIDIA RTXPRO6000BlackwellServer EditionGPUs, NVIDIA Networking andNVIDIA AI Enterprisesoftware. UTSouthwestern Medical Centeris the first client to deploy this reference design with IBM Fusion, unlocking new capabilities for large-scale training and inferencing [...]The post IBM Fusion Offers Implementation of NVIDIA AI Data Platform for Agentic AI appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Nov. 4, 2025 - The U.S. Department of Energy today announced $625 million in funding to renew its five National Quantum Information Science (QIS) Research Centers, originally established under the National Quantum Initiative Actsigned into law by President Trump in December 2018. The awards were selected by competitive peer review under the DOE National Laboratory [...]The post DOE Awards $625M for Quantum Information Science Research Centers appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Nov. 4, 2025 - Today, the United States Department of Energy announced the continued funding of the National Quantum Information Science Research Centers (NQISRCs). IBM released the following statement: We applaud the DoE for continuing to promote quantum science in the United States, and we are committed to the success of these centers and accelerating [...]The post IBM Collaborates Across Four National Quantum Innovation Centers for Quantum-Centric Supercomputing appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

PALO ALTO, Calif. and HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - November 3, 2025 - D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS) and Davidson Technologies, Inc., a technology company supporting U.S. Department of Defense and aerospace customers, announced that D-Wave's Advantage2 quantum computer is now operational at Davidson's headquarters in Huntsville, Alabama. The system is designed to address U.S. government problems, [...]The post D-Wave Quantum Computer Available for U.S. Government Applications at Davidson Technologies appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

It's been a big week for the Big 3 advanced chip companies: ...Intel is rumored to be on the verge of acquiring AI chip company SambaNova.The post Reports: Intel in SambaNova Talks, NVIDIA Expands in S. Korea, May Invest $1B in Coding Startup appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

ESPOO, Finland (October 30, 2025) - Quantum hardware company SemiQon today announces it is developing technologies optimized to support space exploration with the support of European Space Agency's BIC program (ESA). This builds on the company's release of the world's first cryogenic CMOS transistor released earlier this year. ESA experts have identified several potential uses [...]The post SemiQon Adapting Quantum Technology for Deployment in Space appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Abu Dhabi, UAE - October 30, 2025: Microsoft and the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) today released a report highlighting the opportunities and challenges of AI adoption in the energy sector. More than 850 global experts across energy, technology, AI, academia and finance - including leaders from OpenAI, TotalEnergies and the International Energy Agency [...]The post ADNOC and Microsoft Report: 88% Say AI Essential to Energy Transformation appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

WASHINGTON, DC - NVIDIA announced that the company, along with General Atomics and a team of international partners have built an AI-enabled digital twin for a fusion reactor with interactive performance, with technical support from San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego School of Computing, Information and Data Sciences, the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility [...]The post NVIDIA and General Atomics with Partners Build AI-Enabled Fusion Reactor Digital Twin appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Santa Clara, CA - October 30, 2025 - xMEMS Labs, Inc., the inventor of the world's first piezoelectric MEMS (piezoMEMS) Cooling fan-on-a-chip thermal management solution and the leader in solid-state silicon speakers, today announced the closing of a $21 million Series D funding round. The round was led by Boardman Bay Capital Management (BBCM), with [...]The post xMEMS Raises $21M Series D appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

NVIDIA RTX PROTM 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, accelerated by the groundbreaking NVIDIA Blackwell architecture, delivers unparalleled GPU accelerated performance and energy ....The post Accelerating Breakthroughs in Higher Education & Research with NVIDIA RTX PROTM 6000 Blackwell Server Edition appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

28 October 2025 - An AI governance gap" is emerging as businesses pour money into AI tools and products without oversight or protective processes in place, according to a study released by the research company BSI. While business leaders are chasing productivity boosts and cost reductions by investing large sums in AI, new evidence suggests [...]The post Study: Firms Sleepwalking' into AI Crisis appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

At NVIDIA's GTC conference in Washington, DC, today, the company released a raft of news. Here's a round-up with links to the full releases ....The post NVIDIA GTC DC News Roundup: 100K-Blackwell AI Supercomputer for DOE, 6G AI Platform Development with Nokia, Palantir Collaboration appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

VIENNA, Va. & WASHINGTON - October 28, 2025 - VAST Data Federal, a VAST Data subsidiary, today announced a partnership with Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) to deliver a scalable model for cyber defense, which will be shown at NVIDIA GTC DC. Leidos, powered by NVIDIA AI Enterprise software and the VAST AI Operating System, is designed [...]The post VAST Data Federal and Leidos Introduce Agentic Cybersecurity with NVIDIA AI appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

WASHINGTON, D.C.- October 28, 2025 - Flex (NASDAQ: FLEX) today announced it is supporting the development of modular data center systems with NVIDIA. The collaboration will leverage Flex's advanced manufacturing capabilities and footprint to deliver high-performance, energy-efficient AI factories at scale, with an emphasis on meeting growing infrastructure demands in the U.S. Flex is at [...]The post Flex to Collaborate with NVIDIA on Giga-Scale AI Factories appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

October 28, 2025 - New Haven, CT -Quantum Circuits, Inc., announced an integration with NVIDIA's hybrid quantum-classical platform, NVIDIA CUDA-Q, enabling users of its Aqumen Seeker quantum processing unit (QPU) to run quantum applications that utilize machine learning and AI techniques for high-performance use cases. The integration combines the powerful capabilities offered by the Seeker [...]The post Quantum Circuits in Collaboration with NVIDIA appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Manama, 27 October 2025: Bahrain Mumtalakat Holding Co. BSC(c), the sovereign wealth fund of the Kingdom of Bahrain, and SandboxAQ, which is focused on artificial intelligence and quantum techniques, today announced a partnership to support the biotech ecosystem in the Kingdom of Bahrain. Bahrain is licensing SandboxAQ's quantitative AI to develop targets and therapeutics. The [...]The post Mumtalakat and SandboxAQ Announce AI Partnership for Bahrain's Biotech Ecosystem appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Quantum computing has very much been in the news of late, along with an interesting high-precision HPC architecture from an Israeli startup. Here's a not-so-fast (11:12) run-through of recent ....The post HPC News Bytes 20251027: Quantum Advantage and Government Investments, an HPC Systems Startup Delivers Update appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

HPE and AMD today announced they have been selected to build two systems for Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a successor to the Frontier exascale-class HPC system, along with an AI supercomputing ....The post HPE to Build AMD-Powered Exascale and AI Supercomputers for Oak Ridge appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Qualcomm Technologies today announced the launch of its AI inference solutions for data centers: the Qualcomm AI200 and AI250 chip-based accelerator cards, and racks. The AI200 and AI250 are expected to be commercially available in 2026 and 2027 ....The post Qualcomm Unveils Rack-Scale AI Inference Chips appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

The state of quantum is full of promise and in a constant flux, so much so that it's hard to keep track of. In this webinar, we have Julliette Peyronnet of French ....The post Webinar: How to Prepare for the Onset of Quantum Computing, with Alice & Bob and Hyperion Research appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Oct. 24, 2025 -- insideHPC Media LLC announces the consolidation of its two publications, with insdeHPC AI News now merged within our flagship outlet, insideHPC.The post insideHPC and insideAI News to Consolidate Coverage of HPC, AI and Quantum appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

SAN FRANCISCO and DENVER - October 24 - Crusoe, the AI factory company, today announced the initial closing of its anticipated $1.375 billion Series E round, bringing the company's expected valuation to over $10 billion. The oversubscribed round was co-led by technology investors Valor Equity Partners and Mubadala Capital, with participation from 137 Ventures, 1789 [...]The post AI Factory Company Crusoe Raising $1.375B appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Google has issued a blog in which the company claims that its "Willow" quantum chip has achieved thefirst-ever demonstration of verifiable quantum advantage. This milestone is a critical step ....The post Google Claims Verifiable Quantum Advantage for Willow' Chip appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

The intriguing startup NextSilicon, which has generated attention in HPC and other advanced computing markets since its founding in 2017, today disclosed architecture and performance ....The post NextSilicon Says Maverick-2 Chip Delivers up to 10x Boost at Half the Power appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

BOISE, Idaho, Oct. 22, 2025 - Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU) today announced customer sampling of 192GB SOCAMM2 (small outline compression attached memory modules), intended to enable broader adoption of low-power memory within AI data centers. The company said SOCAMM2 extends the capabilities of Micron's first-to-market LPDRAM SOCAMM, which Micron said delivers 50 percent more [...]The post Micron Announces Sampling of 192GB SOCAMM2 DRAM appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

ARMONK, N.Y.andMOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.,Oct. 20, 2025 - IBM and Groq today announced a partnership to provide access to Groq's AI inference technology, GroqCloud, onwatsonx Orchestrate. The partnership is intended to provide high-speed AI inference capabilities at a cost that helps accelerate agentic AI deployment. As part of the partnership, Groq and IBM plan to integrate [...]The post IBM and Groq Partner on Enterprise AI Deployment on watsonx Orchestrate appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Eindhoven, NL - Oct. 21, 2025-Axelera AI, a provider of AI hardware acceleration technology, today announced Europa, an AI processor unit (AIPU) designed for multi-user generative AI and computer vision applications. The company said Europa's combination of processing power, energy and thermal efficiency, compact packaging, and multiple form factor options are intended for compute-intensive, multi-modal [...]The post Axelera Announces Europa AIPU appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

AI architectures are approaching an inflection point, and that is why a new generation of scale-up architectures is needed. Enabling thousands of XPUs to operate as one massive chip for trillion-parameter AI models ....The post Achieving AI Scale-Up Supremacy with Co-Packaged Optics appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

The UK's Science and Technology Facilities Council's (STFC) Hartree Centre has launched a supercomputer designed to help UK industry accelerate innovation through artificial intelligence and advanced computing. A 24.41 petaflop system, it can perform 24.41 quadrillion floating-point calculations per second.The GPU-based system is designed for AI workloads and advanced visualisation. Located within STFC's 30 million [...]The post UK's STFC Launches 24 PLFLOPS AI Supercomputer for Industry appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

TROY, Mich.,Oct. 21, 2025 - Altair today announced upgrades to theAltair HPCWorks high-performance computing and cloud platform. Altair HPCWorks 2026 is intended to delivere faster discovery with new features, including GPU integration and utilization, expanded AI and machine learning tools and support, and extended reporting so users can understand, tune, and optimize their HPC environments. [...]The post Altair Announces HPCWorks 2026 appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

SAN FRANCISCO,Oct. 21, 2025 -Valkey, an open source key-value database under theLinux Foundation, today announced the general availability of Valkey 9.0. The latest version introduces expiration dates for hash fields, atomic slot migration, and multiple databases in cluster mode, which fortify Valkey's use at scale.A Valkey 9.0 cluster can supportover 1 billion requests per second, [...]The post Valkey 9.0 GA for Real-Time Workloads appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Octo. 21, 2025 - Gong will announce new product innovations at the Gong Celebrate conference, built to unify and orchestrate essential go-to-market workloads across the entire revenue organization. Built into the Gong Revenue AI Operating System, these capabilities are designed to help teams win more deals with greater intelligence, automation, and visibility. The new products [...]The post Gong Unveils AI to Orchestrate Go-to-Market Workloads appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

A good autumnal morning to you! The future and the past of HPC-AI is much on our minds today as we observe great deeds done and ....The post HPC News Bytes 20251020: Exascale Day!, Happy 50th and 100th to you Seymour Cray, City-Sized AI Supercomputers, HPC-Quantum Integration appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Cloudera's magnificent obsession," that of building a single, universal data platform with a single, unified control plane, is something the company has thought about and worked ....The post Cloudera's Dream of a Universal Data Platform May Be Nearing Realization appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

NEW YORK, October 20, 2025 - KPMG today announced an agreement to acquire the intellectual property and technology assets of YData Labs Inc., a synthetic data startup founded in 2019. With this acquisition, KPMG said it will strengthen its artificial intelligence client offerings, harness synthetic data to enhance AI-enabled client delivery for Audit and Assurance, [...]The post KPMG to Acquire Synthetic Data Startup YData appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

South San Francisco, London, October 20, 2025: AI health company Pangaea Data today launched its next-generation platform, designed to help clinicians close care gaps, find untreated and sub-optimally treated patients and drive real improvement in patient outcomes, all with reduced costs and increased revenues for health systems. Pangaea's platform uses proven capabilities - already being [...]The post Pangaea Data Launches AI Health Platform appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

The United States Mint has released the designs for the 2026 American Innovation$1 Coin Program, and one of them honors a monumental moment in the history of HPC: the announcement of the Cray-1 supercomputer.The post Cray-1 50th Anniversary Commemorated on Dollar Coin appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

WALTHAM, Mass. - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO) announced AI utilization plans with OpenAI in a collaboration intended to improve drug development. As part of this collaboration, Thermo Fisher is embedding Open AI APIs into areas of its business that range from product development, service delivery, customer engagement and operational efficiency. The collaboration will: [...]The post OpenAI and Thermo Fisher Scientific in Life Sciences Collaboration appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Oct. 17, 2025 - The U.S. Department of the Air Force announced it is accepting proposals for the development of artificial intelligence data centers . The Air Force said projects must include greater than 100 megawatts of new load and at least $500 million in capital expenditures, adding that it is seeking monetary consideration for [...]The post Air Force Issues Call for Proposals for AI Data Centers appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Oct. 17, 2025 - Lila Sciences has announced the close of its $350M Series A, bringing Lila's total capital raised to $550M. The company said it is using this financing to accelerate the buildout of its AI science factories and bring its scientific superintelligence platform" to the scientifi c community. Lila Sciences emerged from two [...]The post AI Science Factory Company Lila Announces Close of $350M Series A, with NVIDIA Backing appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Oct. 17, 2025 - Lila Sciences has announced the close of its $350M Series A, bringing Lila's total capital raised to $550M. The company said it is using this financing to accelerate the buildout of its AI science factories and bring its scientific superintelligence platform" to the scientifi c community. Lila Sciences emerged from two [...]The post AI Science Factory Company Lila Announces Close of $350M Series A, with NVIDIA Backing appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Oct. 17, 2025 - The U.S. Department of the Air Force announced it is accepting proposals for the development of artificial intelligence data centers . The Air Force said projects must include greater than 100 megawatts of new load and at least $500 million in capital expenditures, adding that it is seeking monetary consideration for [...]The post Air Force Issues Call for Proposals for AI Data Centers appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

The Supercomputing Conference has announced that Thomas Koulopoulos will deliver the keynote address, Gigatrends: The Exponential Forces Shaping Our Digital Future," to SC25 ....The post Futurist Thomas Koulopoulos to Discuss Gigatrends in SC25 Keynote appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C., Oct. 16, 2025 - TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced consolidated revenue of NT$989.92 billion, net income of NT$452.30 billion, and diluted earnings per share of NT$17.44 (US$2.92 per ADR unit) for the third quarter ended September 30, 2025. Year-over-year, third quarter revenue increased 30.3%, while net income and diluted EPS [...]The post TSMC Reports YoY Q3 Revenue Increase of 30% appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.