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Susana SchwartzThe summit’s rhetoric around AI-driven economic and military supremacy conceals dual-path strategies In sum, what to know: President Trump and his delegation of business leaders, which included 8 tech CEOs, were greeted with a lavish ceremony at the Great Hall of the People, including a 21-gun salute, a highly spartan PLA demonstration, and troop inspection. The flawless execution of its military …
3M, Oracle, Meta, AMD, and 17 other companies have joined a consortium to scale optical connections for data centers Sensitivity to dust, maintenance downtime, and limited bandwidth density are all challenges for data center hyperscalers and assemblers. Modern AI clusters (224G/448G) require high-density, low-latency connections that physical contact connectors cannot always provide reliably. That’s why expanded beam optics (EBO) is …
Sulagna Saha As microgrids go from niche to necessity in data center builds, developers face a series of implementation challenges In most AI discourses, the technology or the gold rush around it hogs all the limelight leaving the less glamorous realities behind it in the shadows. But, now as experts anticipate a data center energy crisis amid rapid infrastructure expansion, conversations are …
Juan Pedro TomásPritesh Swamy, head of data center research and advisory for the APAC region at Cushman & Wakefield, told RCRTech that Australia’s operational data center capacity increased 20% between December 2024 and December 2025 In sum – what to know: Pipeline growth – Australia’s data center pipeline grew 72% year-over-year, driven by rising AI and cloud infrastructure demand. Power constraints – …
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 …
