IBM has entered a definitive agreement to acquire HRL Laboratories, LLC, a private research and development organization jointly owned by Boeing and General Motors. Financial terms were not disclosed. The transaction is expected to close by the end of the third quarter of 2026, subject to customary conditions and regulatory approvals. Following the acquisition, Boeing

The Korea-focused AI Summit in San Francisco on July 24 gathered leaders from NVIDIA, OpenAI, Broadcom, Anthropic, Samsung, SK Group, Hyundai Motor Group, and NAVER. Held during South Korean President Lee Jae Myung’s visit, the event produced announcements spanning AI factory capacity, HBM supply, semiconductor manufacturing, agentic AI research, and robotics infrastructure. These announcements point

ASUS has announced a new server portfolio based on 6th Gen AMD EPYC 9006 processors, built specifically around the efficiency-optimized SP8 socket rather than the 256-core SP7 flagship. The lineup includes dual-socket RS700A and RS720A systems designed for maximum compute density, alongside single-socket RS500A and RS520A systems targeting more space-constrained enterprise deployments. The new platforms

VAST Data has expanded its collaboration with AMD around AI infrastructure for cloud providers and enterprises deploying training, inference, retrieval-augmented generation, and agentic AI services. The effort combines the VAST AI Operating System with 6th Gen AMD EPYC processors, AMD Instinct GPUs, AMD networking hardware, and ROCm software. The collaboration reflects a broader infrastructure shift

Wistron has opened its D1 AI smart facility in Fort Worth, Texas, marking the company’s first manufacturing site in the United States and the first U.S. production and assembly location for the NVIDIA GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra Superchip. The new site represents a $700 million investment, spans roughly 324,000 square feet, and has created more

Supermicro introduced its new H15 server portfolio, built around 6th Gen AMD EPYC 9006 Series CPUs. These servers are designed to work with AMD Instinct GPUs and AMD Pensando networking solutions. In addition, Supermicro is expanding its AMD GPU offerings with new PCIe GPU servers built for AMD Instinct MI350P GPUs and the previously announced

AMD has outlined its role in two planned Oak Ridge National Laboratory supercomputing platforms, Lux and Discovery, positioned to support the U.S. Department of Energy’s Genesis Mission. The initiative brings together national laboratories, industry, academia, and other partners to apply AI, simulation, and scientific data to energy, discovery science, and national-security research. Lux, under construction

Advancing AI 2026 was AMD’s biggest launch event yet, big enough that we split our coverage in two. Our first article covered the Instinct MI455X and the 72-GPU Helios rack; this sister piece covers what could not comfortably fit alongside them: the 6th Gen EPYC server CPUs, codenamed Venice, and the Verano host processor. The

AMD hosted its largest Advancing AI event to date, emphasizing scale as a central theme. The company introduced the Instinct MI455X GPU, the 72-GPU Helios rack, and the 6th Generation EPYC Venice CPUs. The MI455X features 432GB of HBM4, a 50% increase over NVIDIA’s B300 or Rubin, with 23.3TB/s of memory bandwidth and up to