As smart cities like Atlanta and Amsterdam digitize services and citizen engagement, brands that understand and integrate into these ecosystems can gain a powerful new channel for connecting with urban audiences. The global race to become a “smart city” is accelerating, with urban areas deploying advanced digital technologies to improve efficiency, sustainability, and citizen experiences. […]
News Bytes 20251215: On-Off-On GPU Exports to China, the US-China Power Gap, Pocket-Sized HPC, Regulating AI
December 15, 2025 by
Warmest December greetings! AI technology and its impacts splashed around the world last week, here’s a fast (10:52) review of new developments, including: Nvidia H200 exports to China; H20, H200 and Chinese AI chips: how do they stack up?;few fast GPUs vs. many slow GPUs; China’s power capacity dusts the West; cell-phone sized AI supercomputers; regulating AI
The Infrastructure Revolution for AI Factories
December 5, 2025 by
By David Flynn, CEO, Hammerspace The age of AI factories is upon us. What once seemed like a niche blend of research computing and cloud services is converging into a new infrastructure paradigm—one tailored to the demands of high-throughput model training and refinement, massive inference workloads, and continuous data feedback loops. This article will explore […]
MLCommons Releases MLPerf AI Training v5.1 Results
November 14, 2025 by
Today, MLCommons announced new results for the MLPerf Training v5.1 benchmark suite, highlighting the rapid evolution and increasing richness of the AI ecosystem as well as significant performance improvements from new generations of systems. Go here to view the full results for MLPerf Training v5.1 and find additional information about the benchmarks. The MLPerf Training benchmark suite comprises […]
Google Cloud Announces GA of Ironwood TPUs
November 7, 2025 by
Google today announced GA on the Google Cloud Platform of three products built on custom silicon built for inference and agentic workloads: – Ironwood, Google’s seventh generation Tensor Processing Unit, will be generally available in the coming weeks. The company said it is built for large-scale model training and complex reinforcement learning, as well as […]
OpenAI and Broadcom to Deploy 10 GW of OpenAI-Designed AI Accelerators
October 17, 2025 by
When it comes to AI compute, the big cloud platform providers are chip-agnostic, adopting processors from the big chip companies (mostly NVIDIA) along with their own custom-designed GPUs, referred to as ASICS. OpenAI is ….
News Bytes 20251013: AMD’s Big OpenAI Deal, Intel’s New 2nm Server CPU from Fab 52
October 14, 2025 by
A good mid-October day to you! As news weeks go in the HPC-AI world last week was quite something, led by what may come to be regarded as one of the biggest news ….
Silicon Photonics – A Podcast Update from Prof. Keren Bergman on a Potentially Transformational Technology for Data Center Chips
October 13, 2025 by
https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/104@HPCpodcast_SP_Keren-Bergman_Silicon-Photonics_20251012.mp3 In this episode of the @HPCpodcast, sponsored by CoolIT, we catch up with optical I/O expert and repeat guest Professor Keren Bergman to discuss the latest developments in the fast moving and promising world of optical technologies: co-packaged photonics/opto-electronics/silicon photonics/photonic integrated circuits (PICs)/optical I/O and optical computing. She is the Charles Batchelor Professor of […]
What the OpenAI Deal Means for AMD in AI Factory Compute
October 8, 2025 by
Of all the days since the last “AMD winter” (i.e., sometime before Lisa Su took over as CEO in 2014), yesterday is among the most memorable and, the company believes, significant ….
Wall Street and the Impact of Agentic AI
September 26, 2025 by
As enterprise AI systems become more advanced, they are moving beyond task automation toward workflow intelligence. On Wall Street, this evolution is playing out where milliseconds can mean millions and decisions can ripple across markets. Financial institutions are beginning to embed agentic AI into core operations to surface insights and accelerate decision-making.
