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The staggering size and circular nature of recent deals raises both hopes and concerns, so keeping track will inform industry and investment decisions about where to go from here. In sum – what to know: Highly concentrated market – The last 30 days has seen a small number of major tech firms making enormous AI infrastructure deals, unprecedented in size …

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Evroc’s founder and CEO, Mattias Åström, told RCR Wireless News that the data center initiative aligns with the firm’s mission to drive European digital sovereignty In sum – what to know:  Nuclear-powered pilot – Blykalla, evroc, and Studsvik will explore co-locating SMRs and AI infrastructure at Studsvik’s licensed nuclear site in Nyköping. Clean baseload energy – The plan leverages SMR technology to supply …

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Michael Dell said his company’s server and networking business surged 58% last year and grew another 69% in the last quarter  In sum – what to know: Explosive demand – “tremendous” need for compute power, says Dell, with AI-related server sales set to double in fiscal 2026. Overbuild scenario – “at some point there’ll be too many” data centers, he says also …

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The OpenAI-AMD partnership could massively expand OpenAI’s compute capacity for GPT-5 while positioning AMD’s chips as a strong alternative to Nvidia’s In sum – what to know: Turning point – The deal marks a turning point for AMD, which is jockeying for position as a viable alternative to Nvidia in the market for high-performance AI chips. Easing dependence – By …

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Three AI financing deals, one shared lender risk In sum – what we know: Three separate AI-hardware financing efforts surfaced at the same time this week, each enormous on its own, and collectively painting a picture of an industry scrambling to fund compute at a scale. Broadcom is reportedly arranging more than $50 billion tied to OpenAI’s custom-accelerator program, according …

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In production now, but 2nm’s first prize for AI is efficiency TSMC has begun scaling its first 2nm-class process after entering volume production late last year, turning the shift from FinFET to nanosheet transistors into a commercial reality. N2, as TSMC calls it, is the company’s first production node built around gate-all-around (GAA) transistors — a fundamental change in how …

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Cerebras capacity for agentic coding opens in Q1 2027 In sum – what we know: General Compute has announced a multi-year agreement to deploy Cerebras Systems’ wafer-scale AI inference hardware at scale. The deal represents what General Compute calls its largest single hardware commitment to date, with customer capacity expected to open in Q1 2027. Neither company disclosed the number of systems, …

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Both are 2nm with the same 5GHz Oryon CPU In sum – what we know: Qualcomm has split its flagship smartphone chip in two. The company has announced the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and a higher-spec Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, the first time it has launched two top-tier flagship chips simultaneously. As you would expect in 2026, the main talking …

From the newsletter (October 8; sign-up or follow if you want it sooner): Starlink’s regulatory approvals, Vodafone’s merger savings, and AT&T’s fiber investments reflect a telecoms market reshaping around scale …

Speaking during Deutsche Telekom’s AI Investor Day, John Saw, chief technology officer at T-Mobile highlighted Customer-Driven Coverage (CDC) as one of the company’s biggest AI-driven changes in how it approaches …

Wi-Fi 8 could give ISPs a new line of defense against AI-driven cyberattacks, embedding inference hardware in residential gateways. Airties CEO Metin Taskin argues operators must pair next-generation chipsets with …

SpaceX’s proposed acquisition of Grain Management’s 800 MHz spectrum portfolio strengthens Starlink Mobile’s push into terrestrial wireless. But coverage is not capacity, and building a competitive nationwide network could cost …

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