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HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C. - June 10, 2025 - TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced its net revenue for May 2025: On a consolidated basis, revenue for May 2025 was approximately NT$320.52 billion, a decrease of 8.3 percent from April 2025 and an increase of 39.6 percent from May 2024. Revenue for January through May [...]The post TSMC Announces May Revenue 40% YoY Increase appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

A rare day in June to you! As much of the HPC community gathers this week in Hamburg for the ISC 2025 supercomputing conference, we reflect on interesting recent news in the world of HPC-AI, including: French government to acquire Eviden, Made-in-China 5nm chips from Huawei, World Semiconductor Trade Statistics market forecast, AI eerily defies human controlThe post HPC News Bytes 20250609: It's ISC Week!, French Government to Buy Eviden, Huawei's 5nm Chips, WSTS Semiconductor Forecast, AI Defies Human Control appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

We recently talked with Doug Kothe, who has served in senior management ....The post Sandia Labs' Doug Kothe: The Mission-Driven Rewards of Working at the U.S. National Labs appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

EUGENE, OR., June 6, 2025- The E4S Project announced the availability of Release 25.06 that includes new features, including an expanded AI portfolio and support for the NVIDIA Blackwell GPU architecture with CUDA 12.8. E4S, a High Performance Software Foundation project, is an HPC-AI software ecosystem for science. It's a curated, Spack-based collection of scientific [...]The post E4S Release 25.06 for AI and HPC Available from High Performance Software Foundation appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

SpiNNcloud announced that Sandia National Laboratories has deployed its SpiNNaker2 brain-inspired supercomputer, "marking a significant milestone in the advancement of computing for national security applications," the Dresden, German-based ....The post SpiNNcloud Deploys Brain-Inspired Supercomputer at Sandia appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

The center of the HPC-AI world shifts next week to Hamburg and the ISC 2025 Conference. This is the 40th ISC, and conference organizers expect a healthy increase in the number of exhibitors at this year's event.The post ISC 2025: HPC and AI Luminaries on Trends to Watch in Hamburg Next Week appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Frankfurt/Main, Germany - 4 June 2025 - Northern Data AG (ETR:NB2), a provider of AI and high performance computing solutions, today announced the opening of its new North American AI and HPC data center located in Pittsburgh, PA. The Pittsburgh Data Center, acquired in early 2024, will be operated by Ardent Data Centers, Northern Data's [...]The post Northern Data Group Announces 20MW HPC and AI Data Center in Pittsburgh appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

MIDLAND, Texas - New Era Helium, Inc. (Nasdaq: NEHC), an exploration and production platform in the Permian Basin, today announced that the Texas Critical Data Centers, LLC (TCDC") joint venture has entered into a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding with PowerForward Energy Solutions (PFES) to provide 250MW of on-site generation capacity to power its planned AI [...]The post New Era Helium Advances 250MW Permian Basin AI Data Center appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Freiburg, Germany - 5 June 2025 - The Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics IAF announced a system from Quantum Brilliance (QB) is operational at the institute. The Quantum Development Kit (QB-QDK2.0) is integrated into the high-performance computing infrastructure at Fraunhofer IAF, the institute said. The system requires no cryogenics, fits into a standard [...]The post Room Temp Quantum Brilliance System Installed at Fraunhofer IAF appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Today, MLCommonsannounced new results for the MLPerfTraining v5.0 benchmark suite, highlighting the rapid growth and evolution of the field of AI. This round of benchmark results includes a record number of total ....The post MLCommons Releases AI Inference v5.0 Benchmark Results appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

PALO ALTO, Calif., June 03, 2025 - Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ:AVGO) announced today that it is now shipping the Tomahawk 6 switch series, delivering what the company said is the first 102.4 Terabits/sec of switching capacity in a single chip - double the bandwidth of any Ethernet switch currently available on the market, according to Broadcom. [...]The post Broadcom Ships Tomahawk 6 102.4 Tbps Switch appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

RALEIGH, N.C. (June 4, 2025) - Amazon announced it plans to invest $10 billion in a cloud computing and artificial intelligence campus just east of Charlotte, NC. Artificial intelligence is changing the way we work and innovate, and I am pleased that North Carolina will stay at the forefront of all that's ahead as we [...]The post Amazon to Invest $10B in North Carolina AI Infrastructure appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] When it comes to AI and HPC workloads, networking is critical. While this is well known already, the impact your networking fabric performance has on parameters like job completion time can ....The post Seeking Ethernet Alternative to InfiniBand? Start with Performance! appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

MILPITAS, Calif. - June 3, 2025 - VDURA today announced Version 11.2 of the VDURA Data Platform, designed to accelerate AI and HPC workloads through native Kubernetes CSI support, end-to-end encryption, and the introduction of the VDURACare Premier support offering. The release also previews V-ScaleFlow, a capability within the VDURA Data Platform that enables seamless [...]The post VDURA Unveils Data Platform V11.2 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Wayne, PA June 03, 2025 - Cornelis Networks, an independent provider of high-performance networking solutions, today launched the CN5000 family, which the company said is the industry's highest-performing end-to-end networking solution purpose-built to maximize AI and HPC performance, supporting deployments with up to 500,000 endpoints. Engineered to address compute underutilization and scaling challenges, CN5000 delivers [...]The post Cornelis Launches CN5000: AI and HPC Scale-out Network appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

CANNES, France, June 3, 2025 -LiquidStack today at Datacloud Global Congress unveiled its GigaModular CDU - a modular, scalable Coolant Distribution Unit with up to 10MW cooling capacity, made possible through the unit's modular platform and pay-as-you-grow installation approach. Driven by increases in the adoption of AI, cloud computing, and other data-intensive technologies, the global [...]The post LiquidStack Unveils GigaModular Coolant Distribution Unit appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Melbourne, Australia - Monash University announced its intent to transform Australia's sovereign Artificial Intelligence (AI) research capability by investing $60 million to build and operate an advanced AI supercomputer. This will place the university as a leader in AI-driven research within the international higher education and research sector, the university said. The investment will fill [...]The post Monash University to Invest in AI Supercomputer for Australia's Higher Ed Sector appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Good June morning to you! It's been an intensely geopolitical week for HPC-AI, including: Nvidia earnings outperform despite ....The post HPC News Bytes 20250602: NVIDIA Knocking on China's AI Door, EDA Software Hits Trade Walls, China Tech Merger, NERSC's New Supercomputer, UK De-Brexits' HPC appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

A recent report inBnamericas stated that Atos Bull has won a supercomputing contract from Brazilian federal oil firm Petrobras. According to the report, Atos Bull submitted a bid of 780mn reais (US$138 million), which was the lowest among ....The post Petrobras Brazil Awards $138M HPC Contract to Atos Bull appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Lara Peeters is a trailblazing digital art historian, blending her Master's Degree in art history with a Master after Master degree in Digital Humanities. With a passion for information technology ....The post Vanguards of HPC-AI: Ghent University's Lara Peeters Uses HPC to Fuse Image Analytics and Art appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The U.S. government's drive to hobble China's advanced chip capabilities, mostly focused to date on restricting exports of GPUs used for AI, has spilled over into software used for designing chips - electronic design automation.The post White House Imposing Export Restrictions on EDA Software to China appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

San Jose and Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - May 28, 2025 - Generative AI inference systems company Recogni Inc. and sustainable AI cloud company DataVolt announced a partnership to build what they say will be the most energy-efficient AI cloud. Recogni's inference system leverages AI logarithmic math on purpose-built silicon and networking to set [...]The post Recogni and DataVolt Partner on Energy-Efficient AI Cloud Infrastructure appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The new system, due in 2026, is named after Jennifer Doudna, the Berkeley Lab-based biochemist who won the 2020 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for her work on gene-editing technology. Powered by NVIDIA's next-generation Vera Rubin ....The post DOE Announces Doudna' Dell-NVIDIA Supercomputer at NERSC appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

One of the biggest stories this week in the HPC-AI world involves -- surprise! -- NVIDIA. Actually, make that two or three of the biggest stories. One is NVIDIA's stellar quarterly earnings announcement in the face of ....The post Report: NVIDIA and AMD Devising Export Rules-Compliant Chips for China AI Market appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Scandiano, May 28, 2025: E4 Computer Engineering will be among the protagonists at ISC High Performance, Europe's benchmark event for supercomputing, held at the Congress Center in Hamburg from June 10 to 13. With a program of presentations at its booth (Hall H - Booth F40), the Italian company intends to promote discussion on the [...]The post E4 Computer Engineering's Portfolio of HPC, AI and Quantum at ISC 2025 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Groq announced a partnership with Bell Canada to power Bell AI Fabric, the country's largest sovereign AI infrastructure project to establish a national AI network at six sites, targeting 500MW of hydro-powered ...The post Groq Named Inference Provider for Bell Canada's Sovereign AI Network appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

READING, United Kingdom,May 28, 2025 - Aion Silicon (formerly Sondrel), an ASIC and SoC architecture partner, today announced it has secured a$12 million engagement to provide design services for a confidential customer developing RISC-V-based accelerators for high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI). The multi-year program leverages Aion Silicon's two decades of SoC expertise to [...]The post Aion Silicon Tapped for $12M RISC-V Accelerator Program for HPC and AI appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

AMD announced today the acquisition of Enosemi,a provider of chiplets, design IP and custom silicon for silicon photonics product development. AMD said the two companies have collaborated on photonics development projects, and this acquisition extends that relationship. Now as part of AMD, the team will help us immediately scale our ability to support and develop [...]The post AMD Acquires Enosemi for Co-Packaged Optics appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Tsukuba, Japan - May 28, 2025 - QuEra Computing, a neutral-atom quantum computing company, announced it has installed its first quantum computer outside of its own labs - at Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Tsukuba. QuEra said the gate-based neutral-atom computer is a key step in Japan's national quantum [...]The post QuEra Installs Quantum System in Japan appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

May 27, 2025 - The ISC 2025 conference, scheduled for June 10-13 in Hamburg, announced it has unveiled its ISC 2025 Online Innovation Showcase. As of today, 14 organizations are participating in this showcase, presenting their most innovative solutions in a less than 15-minute presentation before ISC kicks off. We think it is an effortless [...]The post ISC 2025 Kicks Off Online Innovation Showcase appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

TSMC announced today it will open a new chip design center in Munich by the third quarter of this year, something viewed as European Union victory as it pursues self-reliance in chip production. According to an article on the MarketScreener (with Reuters) ....The post TSMC to Add Chip Design Center in Germany for AI, Other Sectors appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SANTA CLARA, Calif.- Colovore, a high-density, liquid cooling colocation company, today announced the appointment of Jeffrey Springborn as chief executive officer. Springborn joins Colovore on the heels of a$925 million financing facility with Blackstoneto fuel expansion of its AI data center platform in key U.S. metro markets. Driven by strong demand for mission-critical infrastructure that [...]The post Colocation Company Colovore Taps Infrastructure Veteran Jeffrey Springborn as CEO appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

MiTAC Computing Technology Corporation, a server platform designer and manufacturer, will showcase its strategic collaboration with AMD at COMPUTEX 2025 (Booth M1110). The companies said the partnership highlights their shared vision to provide cutting-edge, scalable, and energy-efficient solutions for AI, HPC, cloud-native, and enterprise applications. Together, MiTAC and AMD will present a range of next-gen [...]The post MiTAC Computing Unveils AI and Cloud Infrastructure Partnership with AMD at COMPUTEX appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Large language models (LLMs) applications range from text processing to predicting virus variants. As the datasets on which LLM models are trained become increasingly massive - including trillions of parameters ....The post Code Conversion, Reasoning, Visualization and Other LLMs for Science at Argonne appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

NVIDIA said it has achieved a record large language model (LLM) inference speed, announcing that an NVIDIA DGX B200 node with eight NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs achieved more than 1,000tokens per second (TPS) per user on the 400-billion-parameter Llama 4 Maverick model. NVIDIA said the model is the largest and most powerful in the Llama 4 [...]The post NVIDIA Reports Blackwell Surpasses 1000 TPS/User Barrier with Meta's Llama 4 Maverick appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

ARLINGTON, Va. - Lightshift Energy, a developer of energy storage projects, said it will build Vermont's largest battery energy storage project at GlobalFoundries' semiconductor manufacturing facility in Essex Junction. The project, which has completed permitting and contracting, will begin construction this year and is set to come online in early 2026. This project represents a [...]The post Lightshift Energy in Battery Storage Project for GlobalFoundries appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Newark, California - MiTAC Computing Technology Corp., a subsidiary of MiTAC Holdings Corp. (TSE:3706) and server platform design company, introduced its latest offering with AMD EPYC 4005 Series processors. These servers are designed to enhance performance and energy efficiency for AI, cloud services, and data analytics. The new AMD EPYC 4005 Series processors deliver the [...]The post MiTAC Computing Deploys AMD EPYC 4005 Processors appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

In a new paper published in The Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, researchers from IBM Quantum and Lockheed Martin demonstrate how a quantum computer can help accurately model the ....The post Quantum for Chemistry: Lockheed Martin and IBM Combine Quantum with Classical HPC appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

ALBANY, N.Y.-Soluna Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: SLNH), a developer of green data centers for intensive computing applications, including Bitcoin mining and AI, announced today that it has signed a term sheet for power for Project Annie, a new 75 MW data center co-located with a 114 MW solar farm in northeast Texas. Project Annie marks Soluna's [...]The post Soluna to Launch Solar-Powered Data Center with 75MW Project appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

LAS VEGAS,May 20, 2025 - JetCool, a Flex (NASDAQ:FLEX) company specializing in direct-to-chip liquid cooling for AI and high-density compute, today announced its SmartPlate System, a self-contained liquid cooling solution, is available as an option on select Dell PowerEdge systems. JetCool's SmartPlate System is a fully sealed, direct-to-chip liquid cooling solution that delivers immediate performance [...]The post JetCool Reports 15% Power Savings with Liquid Cooling Systems on Dell PowerEdge Systems appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Taipei, Taiwan - May 21, 2025-MiTACComputing Technology Corporation, a server platform designer, manufacturer, and a subsidiary of MiTAC Holdings Corporation (TSE:3706), is displaying its server-to-data center integration solutions at COMPUTEX 2025 (Booth M1110). In collaboration with Solidigm, a pioneer in enterprise data storage, MiTAC Computing highlights a new level of storage performance tailored for AI, [...]The post MiTAC AI and Cloud Servers at COMPUTEX 2025 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

NEW YORK - May 21, 2025 - VAST Data unveiled its VAST AI Operating System, intended to create an intelligent platform architecture that can harness this new generation of AI supercomputing machinery and unlock the potential of AI at scale." VAST said its AI Operating System is the product of nearly 10 years of engineering [...]The post VAST Data Unveils its AI Operating System appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The U.S. Department of Energy's next-genertion leadership computing strategy features the Integrated Research Infrastructure (IRI), which aims to link the DOE's vast experimental and HPC resources. What could be a core capability of the IRI ....The post IRI Coming into View: Berkeley and Oak Ridge Link Supercomputing Resources via Data Pipeline appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Amid reports of hundreds of billions in AI data center investments in the Middle East, development of AI factories in the U.S. continues apace. The Wall Street Journal reported today that OpenAI has secured more ....The post Report: $15B OpenAI Data Center in Texas Will House up to 400,000 Blackwells appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

DELFT, NETHERLANDS - May 21, 2025 - Innatera, a developer of neuromorphic processors, today announced Pulsar, which the company said is the first commercially available microcontroller to bring brain-like intelligence into edge devices. Born from more than a decade of research, Pulsar delivers up to 100X lower latency and 500X lower energy consumption than conventional [...]The post Innatera Introduces Neuromorphic Microcontroller appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Happy mid-spring day to you! The world of HPC-AI is hopping, as usual, with much in the way of recent news, including: Jensen Huang speaks as Computex commences in Taiwa ....The post HPC News Bytes 20250520: Computex Commences, Intel 18A Fab Panther Lake, the US and HPC Leadership, a New Chiplet Alliance appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

In the volatile realm of quantum computing, D-Wave is on a volatile, upward-pointing run of its own, one that points up the high hopes for the potential of quantum computing. As recently as six months ago, the quantum startup's share price remained ....The post D-Wave Shares Soar on News of Quantum System GA appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

TAIPEI,May 20, 2025 -Supermicro, Inc.(NASDAQ:SMCI) announced it is now taking orders for enterprise AI systems with NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs. Supermicro said its portfolio of servers enables AI and visual computing to be deployed in virtually any industry or environment. Its suite of over 20 systems with RTX PRO BlackwellGPUs are [...]The post Supermicro Announces Portfolio of 20+ Systems with NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

NVIDIA today announced at the Computex confence in Taiwan NVIDIA DGX Cloud Lepton - an AI platform with a compute marketplace that connects developers building agentic and physical AI applications ....The post NVIDIA Announces DGX Cloud Lepton for GPU Access across Multi-Cloud Platforms appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.