Samsung Electronics made two moves in two days that both point at the same problem: keeping its memory and foundry lines on the leading edge as AI demand outruns conventional scaling. On September 8, Samsung and ASML announced an expanded partnership under which Samsung will put ASML’s High NA extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography into high-volume
QNAP has introduced the TVS-hx77AX series, a new line of desktop ZFS NAS systems combining AMD Ryzen 7000 series processors with DDR5 memory, U.2 NVMe storage, and NFS over RDMA support. The family includes the 16-bay TVS-h1677AX, 12-bay TVS-h1277AX, and 8-bay TVS-h877AX, and QNAP is aiming all three at video collaboration, virtualization, and small-scale AI
HPE has made the 10.6.0 software release for the Alletra Storage MP B10000 generally available, landing inside the Q3 2026 window the company set when it previewed the release in May. HPE is also calling it Release 6 in its channel materials. The update takes the B10000’s disaggregated block-and-file architecture from four controller nodes to
Qualcomm Technologies and Amazon have entered into a multi-generation collaboration to deliver customized silicon at scale for AWS’s AI data centers, with AI inference as the primary target. The agreement pairs Qualcomm’s power-efficient processing, silicon design, and system-level integration with Amazon’s AI infrastructure, and is aimed at the compute, memory bandwidth, networking, and energy constraints
VMware Explore kicked off Monday morning, though the schedule felt unusual compared to past VMworld Explore events, as Broadcom moved the traditional opening keynote to the afternoon. That was not necessarily a bad thing, as it gave us time to catch a few breakout sessions and catch up with vendors on the show floor. In
Microsoft announced the general availability of GPT-6 Astra within Microsoft Foundry on Azure. The frontier model is engineered to transition enterprise generative AI from interactive chat interfaces toward autonomous agentic workflows, providing multi-step planning, deliberate decision support, and cross-application tool execution. OpenAI calls Astra its most aligned model to date, and Microsoft says it is
NVIDIA used IFA in Berlin to put Windows at the center of its local AI story. The company’s September 3 post covers a new Windows Agent framework for agents that run in the background under OS control, one-click Windows setups for OpenClaw and Nous Research’s Hermes Agent, a beta of an inference router called NVIDIA
NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, a transaction that would extend the company’s position from accelerated compute and AI infrastructure into one of the industry’s most widely used platforms for open models, datasets, and application development. In an announcement published on the NVIDIA website, CEO Jensen Huang said the company plans
ASUS is expanding its role in AI infrastructure, moving from individual AI servers to platforms for building, deploying, and operating entire AI factories. At AI Tech 2026 in Seoul, the company laid out a broader strategy that brings accelerated computing, networking, storage, deployment software, infrastructure management, and AI governance together under one platform. That puts
AMD used its IFA 2026 opening keynote to reveal the Threadripper Halo Station, a liquid-cooled workstation pairing a 96-core Threadripper PRO with a pair of Instinct MI350P accelerators, and the pitch could not be more direct: this is AMD’s answer to NVIDIA’s GB300 DGX Station. “This is the most powerful workstation in the world,” said
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