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Navitas Gains After Nvidia 800V Board Launch: “AI Infrastructure Power Wall”
Navitas reported Q2 revenue of $10.5 million, a 27% year‑over‑year decline, and guided Q3 revenue to about $13.5 million, implying roughly 28% sequential growth. Shares rose 4.8% to $9 after the announcement. The…
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says no memory glut expected by 2029
In a CNBC interview on October 22, 2026, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said he sees no sign of a memory glut by 2029 and expects demand for high‑bandwidth memory (HBM) and LPDDR to keep climbing as AI workloads grow. He…
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Google open-sources TorchTPU, a native PyTorch backend for TPUs, co-developed with Meta
Google announced on October 20, 2026, at the PyTorch Conference 2026 that TorchTPU, its native PyTorch stack for Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), is now available as open source on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 license.…
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Google Cloud and NVIDIA launch general availability of Vera Rubin A5X instances with plans to scale to 960,000 GPUs
Google Cloud and NVIDIA announced the general availability of A5X cloud instances powered by NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 GPUs, with initial availability starting next month and planned expansion to Europe. The instances…
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Dell expands AI Factory with NVIDIA, adds PowerEdge R8822 server and disaggregation racks
Dell Technologies announced a three‑tier expansion of its AI Factory in partnership with NVIDIA at the GTC Berlin conference. The rollout includes the PowerEdge R8822, an air‑cooled 2U server shipping in October 2026…
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CachyOS kernel module may unlock RTX 3090, showing 15% performance boost
A Linux kernel module released for the CachyOS 7.2.8-1 distribution combines the CMP unlocker's V67/PLM technique with the pre‑driver timing of the UEFI approach. The module writes speed selectors (SS0 0x88888888 for…
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Meta tests robots to swap cables and reseat hardware in its data centers
Meta is piloting two‑armed robots at its data‑center campuses in Altoona, Iowa, and New Albany, Ohio. The machines practice common maintenance chores such as swapping network cables, reseating server hardware and…
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Photon Bridge raises €10 million to develop laser sources for AI data centers
Photon Bridge announced a €10 million financing round on October 21, co‑led by the Amadeus APEX Technology Fund and 360 Capital. Existing backers Innovation Industries, Faber and the Brabant Development Agency (BOM)…
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Elon Musk says ASML and other suppliers expedited shipments for Terafab chip plant
Elon Musk announced during SpaceX's Q3 2026 earnings call on X that ASML and other critical semiconductor equipment suppliers have expedited shipments for the Terafab semiconductor manufacturing facility in Gibbons…
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Nvidia unveils Hyperion robotaxi platform with Bolt, Mercedes, Volkswagen in Europe
NVIDIA Announces European AV and Robotaxi Programs Built on Hyperion <pNVIDIA announced at GTC Berlin on October 21, 2026, that European automakers and mobility providers including Bolt with Lucid, Mercedes-Benz,…
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Infineon and NVIDIA advance 800 VDC power systems for AI data centers
Infineon Technologies and NVIDIA have announced an expansion of their collaboration on 800 Volt direct current (VDC) power architectures for AI data centers, timed with NVIDIA's GTC Berlin conference. The focus is on…
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Intel and AMD collaborate on oneDNN optimizations for PyTorch
Intel and AMD announced a joint effort to improve the oneDNN neural‑network library for use with PyTorch. The two rivals will combine their x86 CPU optimization work, with AMD’s ZenDNN enhancements being merged into…
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NVIDIA pays $1.1B to KYEC for US test capacity
NVIDIA has committed a $1.1 billion advance reservation to semiconductor testing firm KYEC to fund new testing facilities in the United States. CEO Jensen Huang has identified capacity as the primary constraint on AI…
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NVIDIA’s Vera CPU delivers up to 2× throughput over x86 chips for agentic AI workloads, Modal confirms
NVIDIA’s Vera CPU is designed for agentic AI workloads, prioritizing high single-threaded performance and low latency to keep GPUs utilized. Modal’s internal testing showed Vera delivering up to twice the throughput of…
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Nvidia claims DSX POD can cut water use up to 100% and power by up to 30%
Nvidia announced the DSX POD, a modular version of its DSX AI Factory Platform built in pre‑integrated containers. The company says the POD can shrink deployment time from six months to 14 days and is being prepared…
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Crypto bettors say Meta may launch Muse AI glasses by year‑end
Cryptocurrency bettors on the Polygon‑based Polymarket platform are pricing a 21% chance that Meta Platforms, Inc. will make Muse‑powered AI glasses available by Oct. 31, down from 61% a month ago and 25% a week ago.…
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ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent order 3 million NVIDIA RTX PRO 5500 GPUs for $35 billion
ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent have placed orders for more than 3 million NVIDIA RTX PRO 5500 workstation graphics cards, according to a Reuters exclusive that cites people familiar with the matter. At roughly $11,400…
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Nvidia offers RTX 50 Series laptops with DLSS 4.5 for gaming and AI
Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 50 Series laptops are now sold on Amazon and Flipkart with festive pricing that ends after Diwali. The new hardware includes faster Tensor Cores and more video memory, enabling the latest DLSS 4.5…
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DeepSeek open-sources DeepInfer inference framework for DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash
DeepSeek has open-sourced DeepInfer, its internal AI inference framework, under the Apache 2.0 license, making it available to developers. The framework powers DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash and runs on NVIDIA SM100 GPUs and…
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NextDC shares drop 39.5% after Melbourne power delays cut earnings forecast
Shares of Australian data center operator NextDC dropped 39.5% on Wednesday following a cut to its annual earnings forecast. The downgrade stems from power supply delays at its M3 Melbourne data center caused by local…
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Deepgram improves Nova-3 speech-to-text efficiency on AWS trainium2
Deepgram processes quadrillions of audio tokens a year for more than 200,000 developers and 1,400 organizations. To cut inference costs, the company ported its Nova-3 speech‑to‑text model to AWS Trainium2 using…
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Amazon expects to receive $5 billion of Nvidia GB300 racks before deployment
Amazon is accelerating AI hardware acquisition through an Early Rack Receipt process. Internal emails reviewed by Business Insider say the cloud unit expects roughly $5 billion in Nvidia GB300 server racks to arrive at…
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Infinity and HP double AI workload capacity on NVIDIA GB300 superchip
Infinity Artificial Intelligence Institute and HP Inc. announced that their joint effort using Infinity Auto Research optimized the NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super model on the HP ZGX Fury workstation, which is powered by…
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AMD adds FSR 4.1 support for RX 6000 GPUs, Xbox Series X/S and Ryzen AI chips
AMD announced that its FidelityFX Super Resolution 4.1 (FSR 4.1) is now compatible with Radeon RX 6000‑series GPUs, Xbox Series X and S consoles, Ryzen Z‑series handhelds, and devices using Ryzen AI Max and AI 9 chips.…
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xMEMS begins mass production of XMC-2400 and XMC-4800 micro‑cooling chips
xMEMS Labs announced that it has moved its solid‑state micro‑cooling technology into mass production, targeting the XMC-2400 and XMC-4800 µCooling chips. The company says the first commercial products using XMC-2400…
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Nvidia reportedly receives $35 billion PRO 5500 orders from Alibaba, Tencent and ByteDance
A Reuters report says Nvidia has received orders for more than 3 million RTX PRO 5500 workstation graphics cards from Chinese internet giants Alibaba, Tencent and ByteDance, with a combined list price exceeding $35…
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Yeo Kheng Meng releases xHCI98 driver adding USB4 and Thunderbolt support to Windows 98 SE
Developer Yeo Kheng Meng announced the experimental xHCI98 v3.0.0.0 driver, which enables generic USB 3.x, USB4 and Thunderbolt 3/4 host controllers on Windows 98 SE and later legacy Windows versions up to Windows 7.…
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PyTorch 2.15 adds FP8 support and speeds up LLM decoding on Mac MPS
The PyTorch team at Hugging Face announced PyTorch 2.15, focusing on the MPS backend for Apple silicon. FP8 tensors (float8e4m3fn) are now supported on MPS, using half the memory of BF16 and enabling scaled matrix…
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Samsung expands memory chip fabs in Pyeongtaek amid AI boom
Samsung is building a massive semiconductor complex in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, to meet the rising demand for memory chips that power generative‑AI GPUs. Three fabs already run around the clock, a fourth has just come…
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SpaceX and Nvidia plan to launch Starmind AI satellite in Q4 2027
On October 16 Elon Musk posted on X praising Jensen Huang and announced progress on “Starmind,” a space‑based AI data center being built by SpaceX and Nvidia. He said the first‑generation satellite, called AI1, will…
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Axera's AX8860P claims to outpace Nvidia DGX Spark in select LLM benchmarks
Axera introduced the AX8860 series, with the AX8860P chip featuring 16 Arm Cortex‑A55 cores, a 6 nm NPU delivering up to 256 TOPS of FP4 compute, 128 GB LPDDR5X memory support, 273 GB/s bandwidth, PCIe 5.0 and AXLink…
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Opinion: Google’s AI focus leaves Pixel missing Samsung’s Good Lock and widget stacking
The author, after three‑plus years with a Samsung Galaxy S21 FE, switched to a Pixel 10 Pro in March 2026. While the Pixel runs Google’s AI‑heavy software, it lacks several Samsung One UI features the author relied on:…
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Nvidia projected to sell about $430 billion in chips in 2026 as data-center revenue hits $89 billion
Nvidia reported quarterly revenue of $96.2 billion, up 106% year over year, with data-center sales contributing $89 billion. The company's CFO pointed to roughly 70% annual revenue growth for fiscal 2028, targeting…
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Microsoft could make Maia 300 its primary inference engine with 2.5x memory bandwidth
Microsoft announced that its upcoming Maia 300 accelerator will become the main inference engine for Azure, targeting multi‑gigawatt deployments beginning in 2027. The chip swaps a modest 36% compute gain for 2.5x the…
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Nvidia’s GB300 FP4 submission trails Google’s TPUv7 on cost efficiency
SemiAnalysis’s October 19, 2026 report compares Nvidia’s GB300 FP4 entry with Google’s TPUv7 on an agentic inference benchmark used by external customers. The analysis finds Nvidia’s submission 1.64 times worse in…
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Meta brings Prometheus supercluster online in Ohio to train Muse models
Meta has activated the first phase of its Prometheus AI supercluster at the New Albany, Ohio data‑center campus. The facility, which went live in October 2026, is built to operate at gigawatt scale and currently…
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Opinion: TSMC seen as AI chip stock with most upside through 2030
The author argues that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) offers the greatest long‑term upside among AI chip makers through 2030. While Nvidia remains the dominant GPU supplier, its biggest customers – Alphabet,…
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DeepSeek plans to use Huawei Ascend 950DT for pre‑training by end of 2026
According to two people familiar with the matter, DeepSeek is working closely with Huawei Technologies to shape the design of future AI chips. The collaboration is aimed at enabling DeepSeek to start using Huawei's…
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Ijah launches Metal‑based inference engine for Qwen 3.8‑Flash‑Next on Apple M5
The open‑source ijah engine runs on Apple M5 GPUs using raw Metal code and serves the Qwen3.8‑Flash‑Next model and its Swift‑1.5 fine‑tune via an OpenAI‑compatible HTTP API. It requires an Apple M5 Mac with Metal 4…
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PNY offers NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstations with up to 14.2 petaflops
PNY Technologies announced desktop AI workstations built around NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs. Each system can house up to four RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max‑Q GPUs, delivering a combined 14.2 petaflops of AI compute…
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Chamath says Nvidia controls most AI memory supply, leaving Google short
Microsoft announced its third‑generation Maia 300 AI chip on Oct. 12 and said it will scale the chips to multi‑gigawatt deployments starting in 2027. The chip is designed for higher memory bandwidth, but Chamath…
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TSMC will reportedly supply 3nm base dies for Nvidia's NVHBM chips
Nvidia announced its NVHBM custom high‑bandwidth memory line in August 2026, aiming to standardise how HBM is built by moving its own memory controller into the base die. The company says the design could deliver up to…
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Arm says its AGI CPU delivers nearly 2× performance per rack of AMD EPYC 9755
Arm announced that its AGI CPU, built for agentic AI workloads, shows a modeled 1.99x rack‑level performance advantage over AMD’s EPYC 9755 when evaluated across seven workloads. The claim comes from Arm‑commissioned…
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Alibaba launches Qwen Glasses N1 smart eyewear starting at $450
Alibaba has launched the Qwen Glasses N1 series, entering the smart eyewear market currently led by Meta. The standard model starts at $450 before discounts, while a Pro edition priced at approximately $520 adds…
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Apple CEO John Ternus calls memory chip shortage a crisis
Apple’s new chief executive John Ternus told TIME that the shortage of memory chips is an "absolute crisis," warning that the constraint could push back shipments of the foldable iPhone Duo, priced from $1,999, to…
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China's economic growth picks up to 4.5% as AI boom boosts exports
China's economy grew by 4.5% in the third quarter, rebounding from 4.3% in the previous period. The expansion was driven in part by global demand for AI data center components and chips, which boosted exports and…
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Nvidia announces RTX Spark laptop superchip and Vera Rubin NVL72 rack system
Nvidia announced two new AI hardware products. Nvidia says the chip can run models with up to 120 B parameters and a 1 M token context window, and it will ship from October 16, 2026 through partners such as ASUS, Dell,…
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Anthropic signs 20-year lease for first Canadian data centre in Nova Scotia with EverWind
Anthropic has signed a 20-year lease to be the anchor tenant for a new data centre project in Point Tupper, Nova Scotia, developed by EverWind Fuels. The initial phase will provide 95 megawatts of power, with plans to…
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Microsoft unveils Surface Pro 12-inch and Surface Laptop 13-inch with AI boost
Microsoft announced at the Snapdragon Summit two new Surface devices powered by the Snapdragon X2 Plus processor: the 12‑inch Surface Pro and the 13‑inch Surface Laptop. The company says the hardware delivers up to 18%…
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NVIDIA launches RTX Spark laptops with global events in six cities
NVIDIA launched the RTX Spark laptop line on October 16, 2026, with simultaneous launch events in San Francisco, Berlin, Taipei, Beijing, Istanbul, and Seoul. The laptops are available from ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo,…
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Intel confirms Razor Lake‑AX socs to launch in 2028 with 700 tops AI compute
Intel announced that its next‑generation Razor Lake‑AX system‑on‑chips will arrive in 2028, targeting premium devices with 700 TOPS of AI compute. The information was given by Intel senior vice president Cho Min‑sung…
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Tom's Hardware Premium details Intel EMIB Foveros roadmap and DLSS 5 modding
Tom's Hardware Premium published a weekly roundup on October 17, 2026, covering Intel's EMIB and Foveros packaging roadmaps aiming for system-in-packages the size of 12 reticles. It reported on modders porting DLSS 5…
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ASML says 2027-2028 chip tool output will fall short of AI demand
ASML reported third-quarter 2026 net sales of €11.7 billion and net income of €5.0 billion, with CEO Christophe Fouquet stating that planned chipmaking tool supply for 2027 and 2028 will not fully meet customer demand…
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NVIDIA Tesla V100 sees price hike and demand rise for AI inference
NVIDIA’s Tesla V100 GPU is gaining popularity as a cost-effective option for running AI models locally. With 32GB of HBM2 memory, it is available in PCIe and SXM2 versions, catering to buyers who want to avoid the high…
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OpenAI’s Jalapeño chip earns TIME’s Best Inventions 2026 honor
OpenAI’s custom AI chip Jalapeño made TIME’s Best Inventions of 2026 list on October 15, marking its first major public recognition since launch. The chip, developed with Broadcom and manufactured by Celestica, is…
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Nvidia’s H100 gpu worth about 30% more than a year ago
Nvidia’s H100 GPU has increased in value by about 30% compared to a year ago, driven by sustained demand for AI compute. The chip debuted in Q4 2022 and remains in high demand. Rental rates for the H100 have rebounded.…
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Nvidia, AMD and Micron shares fall as AI financing concerns weigh on chip stocks
Nvidia, AMD and Micron shares declined in premarket or regular trading as investors questioned the financing of AI infrastructure amid worries over indebted AI companies like CoreWeave. The selloff occurred despite…
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Thursday, October 15: Anthropic to Build a Data Center in Osaka Worth Up to 1 Trillion Yen—Is the Massive AI Investment Really Worth the Returns?
Anthropic announced plans to build a data center in Osaka, Japan, with construction costs reaching up to 1 trillion yen and a power demand of up to 500 MW. The facility will be the first in Japan dedicated to Anthropic…
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Nvidia speeds DLSS 5 with 2x performance, 20% less VRAM
Nvidia announced DLSS 5’s latest update, doubling its speed over the current model—a 10x improvement since March. The company attributes the gains to pipeline optimizations and neural refinements, reducing the model’s…
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Jailbroken PS5 runs Qwen3.8-27B model at 20 tokens per second
A Reddit user named u/AdIllustrious7246 forked PS5LM, a port of llama.cpp for the PS5, to run AI models locally. Their version leverages the PS5’s GPU via PS5\[Vulkan\), bypassing the console’s locked-down graphics…
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