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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.
Susana SchwartzIn sum, what to know: Before Tuesday’s panel discussion about “designing scalable AI clusters,” RCRTech talked with Chip design engineer, Raymond Chik, vice-chair of the IEEE AI Hardware & Infrastructure Working Group about the insatiable need for power and energy in data center buildouts. “Most people focus on speed and performance, but now the architecture has to be configured around …
Juan Pedro TomásCloud providers were the fastest-growing customer segment, increasing spending 58% year-over-year In sum — what to know: Cloud spending jumped 58% year-over-year – Hyperscalers drove the biggest share of Q3 growth, boosting demand for backbone and DCI capacity. DCI rose 34% on AI and cloud traffic – Direct DCI sales remained the strongest application as operators scaled interconnects. Ciena and …
Deutsche Telekom, Schwarz, SAP, and Ionos had discussed a joint application for an EU-backed AI data center, according to previous reports In sum – what to know: Germany eyes EU-backed AI facility – Deutsche Telekom and Schwarz Group are exploring an application to the EU’s €20bn gigafactory fund to build a major AI data center in Germany. Large-scale AI chip …
The KT partnership expands DigitalBridge’s presence in Asia following the close of DigitalBridge Partners III, which raised $11.7 billion In sum – what to know: DigitalBridge and KT are evaluating large-scale AI data center builds in Korea – including AI factory-type facilities that could reach gigawatt scale and require multi-billion-dollar investment. The partnership deepens DigitalBridge’s focus on Asia under its …
Sulagna Saha Digital twin — a technology that is redefining sectors from manufacturing to telecom and those in between — is at the heart of network assurance As service assurance becomes a critical business differentiator, industries from manufacturing and utility to space research and telecom are all turning to one technology that is reimagining the way we test products and services: Digital …
Sulagna Saha Spirent said the new feature will allow operators to test clusters’ ability to support 5G cloud-native network functions pre-deployment In sum – what to know: A new benchmarking function — Spirent just added an infrastructure benchmarking capability to the larger Landslide test application. Repeatable test workflows — The feature provides test workflows that can be used to benchmark existing and …
Sulagna Saha As networks grow heavier and more complex with addition of AI applications, testing and validation approaches are evolving to keep up Artificial intelligence is increasingly embedded in modern network infrastructures. A roll of new use cases have emerged in the recent years, making room for AI to be implemented at every layer and detail of the network to augment it …
Sulagna Saha In a joint trial, Telstra and Silicon Quantum Computing demonstrated that a quantum system can forecast network issues faster than a deep learning model In sum – what to know: Quantum meets machine learning — Telstra and Silicon Quantum Computing jointly tested a quantum machine learning system for network automation. Efficiency edge – The system, while running on less powerful …
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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