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RCRTech engages industry communities through research-driven content, conversations, and connections. Building on 40+ years of RCR Wireless News excellence, RCRTech delivers trusted insights informing and connecting technology buyers with innovators shaping connectivity and compute.
James BlackmanAI workloads are changing the way fiber networks are being designed, deployed, and upgraded; they also change how we should assess them. No longer just about reach and speed, connectivity now requires control, scalability, and proximity to data and compute resources. This first instalment of a 20-point checklist examines the backbone, access, interconnect, and optical capabilities that determine whether a …
Juan Pedro TomásLisa Su, AMD chair and CEO, said that a recent partnership with OpenAI will significantly accelerate the firm’s data center AI business In sum – what to know: Data center revenue surges 22% – AMD’s data center segment hit $4.3 billion in Q3, driven by strong demand for 5th Gen EPYC CPUs and Instinct MI350 GPUs. OpenAI deal cements AI …
The UK’s ambitions for a sovereign AI ecosystem are accelerating as Dutch AI infrastructure firm Nebius launches its first UK deployment and private investors pledge billions. Projects from Nscale, CoreWeave, and AI Pathfinder, aligned with government strategies signal a convergence of public policy and private-sector build-out. In sum – what to know: Nebius launch – new London-based Nebius facility, powered …
The Industrial AI Cloud, powered by up to 10,000 Nvidia GPUs, will allow manufacturers, automakers, and robotics firms to deploy AI-driven digital twins, predictive maintenance, and large-scale simulation workloads In sum – what to know: Europe’s first Industrial AI Cloud debuts – Deutsche Telekom and Nvidia launch a sovereign, enterprise-grade platform to power AI innovation across German industries. Massive compute …
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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