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Juan Pedro TomásAccording to Sean Hughes, business development manager at Wärtsilä Energy, developers are increasingly turning to onsite generation systems that can be deployed independently of utility interconnection timelines In sum – what to know: Grid constraints – Wärtsilä said grid interconnection delays are accelerating demand for behind-the-meter and off-grid power solutions in the U.S. data center market. AI demand growth – …
Susana SchwartzThe executive order serves as a worker-protection counterweight to what’s perceived as federal AI industry-first protections. In sum – what to know: Just as the Trump administration scrapped plans today for an executive order to vet powerful new AI models before they are released publicly, Governor Newsom issued executive order N-6-26 – a potential counterweight to what the public increasingly …
Sulagna Saha Ultra-dense GPU racks are pushing power, cooling, and engineering demands beyond the limits of many existing facilities, raising questions about the viability of modular designs Within data centers, a significant shift is happening at the rack level. AI workloads are pushing rack densities to unforeseen levels and some of the core assumptions behind modular and reconfigurable data center designs are …
Alibaba’s semiconductor subsidiary T-Head introduced the Zhenwu M890 AI processor, which the company said delivers three times the performance of its previous-generation chip In sum – what to know: New AI model – Alibaba launched the Qwen3.7-Max model for agentic AI workloads, including coding, reasoning and long-duration autonomous task execution involving extensive tool usage. Infrastructure expansion – Alibaba Cloud introduced …
Christian de LooperAlphabet moves to diversify supply chain with Intel amid TSMC capacity crunch In sum – what we know: Alphabet’s Google has placed a firm order with Intel to manufacture more than 3 million of its custom Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) for 2028, according to a report from The Information citing people with direct knowledge of the discussions. The chips would …
The 600W MI350P is essentially a halved MI350X In sum – what we know: AMD has unveiled its latest data center chip, and while it’s not a massive generational upgrade, it does slot in nicely into the company’s AI chip roadmap. The AMD Instinct MI350P PCIe GPU is a dual-slot, air-cooled CDNA 4 accelerator built to drop into standard PCIe Gen5 x16 …
SK Hynix’s expansion targets HBM and advanced-node DRAM for AI In sum – what we know: SK Hynix is set to dramatically increase its memory capacity. At Computex 2026, SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won, who also chairs SK hynix, told reporters that the company plans to double its memory wafer production capacity within five years. Chey described the move as …
The RTX Spark “superchip” is powerful enough to run 120B-parameter models and persistent agents without the cloud In sum – what we know: Nvidia wants to bring its chip and AI expertise to more consumer products. The company used Computex 2026 to put a new kind of chip on the map. The RTX Spark is an Arm-based “AI superchip” system-on-a-chip …
As nations race to build sovereign AI capabilities, successful strategies are converging on a common formula: control critical bottlenecks. The real differentiator is no longer ambition or spending, but the …
In sum, what to know: –Taking NTN beyond consumers: Anterix, which owns 900 MHz spectrum and targets the utility and enterprise private wireless space, is testing space-based direct-to-device connectivity with …
RCR’s free virtual Telco AI Forum is taking place on June 16th. Register here to explore AT&T’s telco AI strategy in more depth. Imagine for a second that a telecom …
Cisco says enterprises must move beyond WPA2 to WPA3 and strengthen wireless security through SAE, forward secrecy, and Wi-Fi 7 – to enable resilient zero-trust-ready enterprise mobility across modern networks …
Sulagna Saha The frenzy to adopt AI often overshadows the importance of evolving testing approaches. But autonomy cannot be achieved without rethinking testing Business executives have always been quick to acquire and deploy the latest technologies in the network to make it faster, more performant — and ultimately autonomous. But adoption of AI at a giddy pace has brought up new challenges …
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 …
