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Susana SchwartzConsortium of heavyweight investors includes Nvidia, Microsoft, Temasek, MGX, xAI, and Kuwait Investment Authority In sum – what to know: Largest deal of its kind. BlackRock says $40 billion is the starting point to what it believes can turn into $80 billion to $100 billion in capital raised. Major capital backing. Investing are heavyweights like xAI, MGX, Kuwait Investment Authority, …
Juan Pedro TomásMacquarie noted that the transaction values Aligned at approximately $40 billion In sum – what to know: Record $40B transaction – The sale of Aligned Data Centers marks the largest-ever global data center deal, highlighting the sector’s continued surge in strategic value. From 85 MW to 5 GW – Under Macquarie’s ownership, Aligned expanded from two sites to a 50-facility …
Revenues from neoclouds surpassed $5 billion in the second quarter of 2025, according to new data from Synergy Research Group In sum – what to know: Neoclouds surpass $5B in Q2 – Revenues from AI-focused cloud providers surged 205% year over year, signaling accelerating demand for GPU-centric capacity. Market to reach $180B by 2030 – Synergy projects 69% compound annual …
The Hague’s intervention with the China-based company signals that Western governments may become more protective of supply chains, intellectual property and national security In sum – what to know: Protective stance – The Dutch government invoked the Goods Availability Act to take over Chinese-owned Nexperia, a highly exceptional move galvanized by Amsterdam’s concerns about national and economic security. Change in …
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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