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Juan Pedro TomásSK Telecom said the collaboration with OpenAI reflects its broader goal of building an “AI infrastructure superhighway” across South Korea In sum – what to know: SK Telecom is scaling national AI hubs – The OpenAI MoU and regional AIDC plan advance its “AI Infrastructure Superhighway,” linking multiple AI data center zones across Korea. Two-tier growth strategy: self-reliance + cooperation …
Catherine Sbeglia NinInside a regional fiber build optimized for AI-era transport demands with LightRiver Gigabit Fiber’s new southwest long-haul build — connecting Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and Phoenix — may look like another regional transport expansion. But to LightRiver, the engineering partner behind the deployment, the real story is how AI-enabled automation, software-driven optimization, and factory-built integration are reshaping what fiber operators …
As hyperscalers and sovereign cloud providers scale up massive AI clusters, the real point of differentiation is becoming how efficiently those GPUs can communicate, according to Dell’Oro In sum – what to know: AI clusters are outgrowing electrical networks – Explosive GPU growth and rapid port-speed transitions are stressing traditional switching layers and accelerating upgrade cycles across back-end AI fabrics. …
LiquidStack noted that the traditional efficiency metric of choice — the power usage effectiveness ratio — will lose relevance as operators prioritize economic throughput over raw energy savings In sum – what to know: Economic performance will surpass energy efficiency as the key metric – LiquidStack said operators will shift from PUE to “tokens per watt per dollar” as power …
Christian de LooperNew Broadcom agreements secure long-term TPU supply and 3.5 gigawatts of future capacity for Anthropic In sum – what we know: The Broadcom-Google-Anthropic love triangle continues. The three companies have announced a number of major new deals, largely focused on Broadcom. Under the first agreement, Broadcom will design and supply Google’s custom Tensor Processing Units through 2031. The second deal …
Cognichip just got $60 million in Series A funding to bring its concept to life In sum – what we know: There’s a ton of hype around AI chips, but what about AI-designed chips. That’s the idea behind Cognichip, which is building what it describes as the first physics-informed AI foundation model for semiconductor design — and it just closed a …
Nvidia’s big Marvell deal will see the two expand the NVLink Fusion platform In sum – what we know: Nvidia’s march into AI data centers continues. The company has announced a $2 billion investment in Marvell, alongside a significantly expanded technical collaboration covering AI infrastructure and next-gen telecom networks. The investment highlights where Nvidia thinks the next bottlenecks in the …
TurboQuant achieves up to 8x speed improvements on modern GPUs without sacrificing model accuracy Google Research has announced TurboQuant, a compression algorithm that could meaningfully change the economics of running large AI models. According to Google’s benchmarks, it shrinks memory usage by at least 6x and delivers up to 8x speed improvements on modern GPUs — with no accuracy loss. If …
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