Happy Halloween! At this week’s Nvidia GTC, test and measurement vendors rolled out new products, announced partnerships, and showcased their latest technologies through booth demos and panel presentations. Ahead of the event, Synopsys announced a new collaboration with Nvidia focused on integrating agentic AI for smarter manufacturing, chip design, and physics simulation. Synopsys will leverage Nvidia’s AI toolkit to accelerate AI and GPU-accelerated computing across engineering workloads, to improve chip design and engineering productivity.
Keysight, also present at the event, announced a collaboration with Nvidia on a hybrid quantum-AI computing initiative. The test and measurement company is working with NVQLink — a newly released high-speed interconnect for coupling quantum processors with AI supercomputers — and Nvidia Cuda-Q to integrate quantum control systems with AI-driven infrastructure, an effort to address the challenges of classical computing.
These collaborations are not a surprise considering Nvidia’s deep root in the tech industry, but it also underscores how new AI developments are ramping up investment in testing equipment, and further goes to show the outsize role T&M will play in enabling innovation in the age of AI.
The AI effect was also evident in some of the recent Q3 earnings results. Several vendors, including Bureau Veritas, Teradyne Technologies, and Fortive reported consistently good performance, while Advantest posted record revenue surge and valuation boom, fueled by the AI surge.
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An unlikely synergy: Fiber optic end face inspection has long been a manual process involving simple technologies. Now AI has entered the scene and is changing things in unexpected ways.
A cautionary note: Telcos are bullish on telecom GPUaaS but competing directly with hyperscalers has big risks.
5G deployment continues on: Between August and September, India has added over 6000 5G sites across the country, bringing the nationwide total to half a million.
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Tracking broadband progress: New Ookla report finds 38 states and the District of Columbia now delivering a minimum of 100/20 Mbit/s speed to 60% of broadband users, up from 22 states in 2024.
Another cloud outage hits millions: Azure outage triggers widespread chaos as services, including, Microsoft 356, Xbox, Starbuck, and Kroger went down, marking the second major cloud outage in two weeks.
T&M trends in the Southeast Asia: Genetron Singapore, makers of oscilloscopes and protocol analyzers, reports key emerging trends in the Southeast Asia markets, after participating in engineering events all year across Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, and the Philippines.
Anritsu debuts reference photodetector: The MN4765B-0140 pushes the frequency envelop to 145GHz, enabling testing of some of the most advanced electrical-to-optical and optical-to-electrical devices in data centers.
Teradyne appoints new CFO: Michelle Turner will replace incumbent, Sanjay Mehta, who has been in the position since 2019 and will remain an executive advisor with plans to retire in 2016, as the new chief financial officer, effective Nov 3rd.
A sharp spike: Advantest’s stock price jumped up 22 percent — a record high — after the company reported 71 percent surge in operating profit in the third-quarter 2025. Analysts believe partnership with Nvidia and AI spending boom to be the likely cause.
A cloud-based network measurement tool: Anritsu unveiled a software-based system for AWS environments that measures latency, jitters, throughput, and packet loss without relying on physical test equipment.
Keysight unveils Quantum System Analysis: A new addition to Keysight’s Quantum Electronic Design Automation (EDA) suite, Keysight Quantum System Analysis will allow engineers to perform system-level quantum analysis and optimization through end to end workflow simulation.