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Juan Pedro TomásMichael Dell said his company’s server and networking business surged 58% last year and grew another 69% in the last quarter In sum – what to know: Explosive demand – “tremendous” need for compute power, says Dell, with AI-related server sales set to double in fiscal 2026. Overbuild scenario – “at some point there’ll be too many” data centers, he says also …
Susana SchwartzThe OpenAI-AMD partnership could massively expand OpenAI’s compute capacity for GPT-5 while positioning AMD’s chips as a strong alternative to Nvidia’s In sum – what to know: Turning point – The deal marks a turning point for AMD, which is jockeying for position as a viable alternative to Nvidia in the market for high-performance AI chips. Easing dependence – By …
Carrier noted that the region’s data center cooling market is projected to reach $7.3 billion by 2031 In sum – what to know: Integrated AI cooling – The QuantumLeap platform combines liquid and air cooling with predictive controls for more efficient, scalable data center operations. Liquid cooling in Asia – Carrier introduces its direct-to-chip cooling solution to meet rising thermal demands from AI and …
Schneider Electric said the first reference design provides a unified framework for power and liquid cooling management In sum – what to know: Reference frameworks – Schneider Electric has released two validated designs with Nvidia, integrating power management, liquid cooling, and operational controls to accelerate AI data center deployment. Nvidia supports – The second design targets AI factories of up to 142 kW per rack, …
Sean Kinney One stop at a time Author’s note: I’m one of those AuDHD people you encounter in tech, media and tech media. CES and Las Vegas are exhausting, but I wanted to get this written while still having some fun. So, I landed on a format where I write a section, have a drink, take the monorail one stop, then repeat. …
Christian de LooperYou don’t have to own the hardware for AI. But should you? Every organization building with AI eventually has to decide whether to own the hardware or rent it. This isn’t necessarily always a financial calculation. It touches data security, talent pipelines, hardware obsolescence, and the fundamentally unpredictable nature of AI workloads. A startup spinning up its first large language …
Will open-source chips democratize the industry? In the early 1990s, a Finnish student named Linus Torvalds released a free operating system kernel called Linux. This new operating system, together with projects like Apache, proved that collaborative, open-source development could produce software that competes with and surpasses propriety alternatives. These days, Linux runs on everything from smartphones to supercomputers, and open-source …
Non-exclusive agreement transfers key talent and technology while Groq remains independent In sum – what we know: Nvidia and chip startup Groq have announced a non-exclusive licensing agreement reportedly worth around $20 billion. The announcement turned heads immediately — not just because of the price tag, which clocks in at nearly three times Groq’s $6.9 billion valuation from just months earlier, but …
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