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Juan Pedro TomásDell’Oro said the optical transport market is now forecast to surpass $18 billion in manufacturer revenue for the first time since 2000, driven largely by network infrastructure investments tied to AI data centers In sum – what to know: AI-driven growth – Dell’Oro now forecasts the optical transport market to grow 16% in 2026, fueled largely by AI-related data center …
Sean Farney, VP of data center strategy at JLL, told RCR Tech that former industrial facilities are increasingly being repurposed into data centers as operators respond to rising AI-driven demand and power constraints In sum – what to know: Industrial sites repurposed – Former paper mills, steel plants and manufacturing facilities are increasingly being converted into data centers, particularly across …
Susana SchwartzCirrascale ‘more horses for courses’ strategy is to test and deploy on every leading AI accelerator, with bare-metal servers fine-tuned for training, inference, and inference-as-a-service. Cirrascale founder and CEO David Driggers is a pioneering figure in HPC, known for his work around dense hardware architecture and multi-GPU processing efficiency. Starting in the early 2010s, Driggers started Cirrascale as a hardware …
Sean Kinney, Principal AnalystBeyond data and infrastructure platforms, Dell is making the case that agentic AI adoption will depend on governance, locality and more favorable token economics LAS VEGAS — At Dell Technologies World, company Founder and CEO Michael Dell kicked off the program by framing artificial intelligence as infrastructure spanning a continuum from the data center to the desktop. “Abundant intelligence is …
Christian de LooperBoth are 2nm with the same 5GHz Oryon CPU In sum – what we know: Qualcomm has split its flagship smartphone chip in two. The company has announced the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and a higher-spec Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, the first time it has launched two top-tier flagship chips simultaneously. As you would expect in 2026, the main talking …
The AgentX result is impressive, but it rides on one specific operating point In sum – what we know: According to Nvidia, the Vera Rubin NVL72 rack system delivers up to a 30× higher agentic-AI throughput per megawatt than the preceding GB300 NVL72 system in SemiAnalysis’ AgentX benchmark. The company also says the comparison corresponds to up to 45× lower cost per …
OpenAI is matching chips to workloads instead of picking one vendor In sum – what we know: OpenAI is slowly but surely moving away from Nvidia, and it’s doing so in public. Speaking with Jim Cramer on CNBC’s Mad Money, OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar laid out the company’s multi-vendor compute strategy in unusually plain terms. “Just as we have a strategy …
Bigger CoWoS packages may keep AI accelerators scarce anyway In sum – what we know: TSMC is reportedly preparing to roughly double capacity for its CoWoS advanced-packaging technology by the end of 2028. The estimate, according to analysts cited by Taiwan’s Economic Daily News, puts CoWoS capacity at about 130,000 wafers per month at the end of 2026, rising to about …
From the newsletter (September 24; sign-up or follow if you want it sooner): Optus, Orange, SK Telecom, plus ZTE and Samsung, are sharpening the AI-RAN debate: near-term gains from AI …
In sum – what to know O-RAN foundation – Rakuten Mobile says its software-defined, cloud-native architecture provides the foundation for adding AI intelligence to its network. Autonomy with guardrails – …
From the newsletter (September 23; sign-up or follow if you want it sooner): Cambium’s collapse exposes the risks of vendor dependence for WISPs, while private 5G and IoT keep expanding, …
Mimosa Networks argues broadband operators should build for the business case, not fiber-first dogma. As BEAD funding and rural economics shift, FWA in unlicensed spectrum offers another route to viable …
