Kioxia and Sandisk outlined a joint capital investment plan totaling over $31 billion (approximately 5 trillion yen) through 2032 to expand advanced 3D NAND flash memory production in Japan. The planned deployment of capital is contingent on Japanese government subsidies and builds on the joint venture’s 25-year manufacturing partnership, which has previously directed more than
AMD has released ROCm 10, coinciding with the tenth anniversary of its open software stack, and made ROCm.AI generally available to developers. First introduced at Advancing AI 2026, ROCm.AI is an AI-native development platform intended to accelerate build, deployment, and optimization workflows on AMD hardware. ROCm.AI combines three components, ROCm Hyperloom, AMD Skills, and the
Brian recently caught up with Tim Shedd, an expert in thermal management and a pioneer in liquid cooling technologies. The podcast covers some of the historical aspects of data center liquid cooling, from Tim’s time working with Cray and spraying liquid across tubes to his more recent engagement with Dell’s PowerEdge XE9680. Tim Shedd
NVIDIA has announced the Jetson Orin Nano 2, an updated system-on-module and developer kit engineered to run compact foundation models and real-time computer vision workloads at the edge. The release targets embedded robotics, unmanned aerial vehicles, and industrial edge devices that require local inference capabilities without relying on continuous cloud connectivity. “Today’s small and medium
TerraMaster is expanding its enterprise storage efforts around a group of rackmount and tower NAS systems designed for centralized backup, data protection, video surveillance storage, and other business workloads, a step up in ambition from the consumer NAS and Thunderbolt storage the brand is better known for. The current lineup includes the U4-500, U8-500 Plus,
Cisco is broadening its Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA initiative by adding Supermicro as a compute partner, incorporating Supermicro’s liquid- and air-cooled systems into Cisco’s full-stack AI infrastructure architecture. The expansion targets enterprise, neocloud, and sovereign cloud customers building out large-scale AI deployments. “We are at the beginning of one of the largest datacenter buildouts
IBM has announced the IBM Storage DS8000 Release 10.2, an update to its flagship enterprise storage platform tailored for IBM Z, IBM LinuxONE, and high-performance, mission-critical environments. The release targets large-scale enterprise demands by focusing on increased drive density, deeper operational telemetry, and automated cyber resilience. Fifth-Generation FlashCore Module (FCM5) Release 10.2 introduces the fifth-generation
Hyperscalers and AI-focused infrastructure operators are increasingly developing proprietary AI accelerators and XPUs to keep pace with large language models and complex reasoning workloads. To address the physical, memory, and networking challenges of deploying proprietary silicon at scale, NVIDIA has detailed its NVLink Fusion interconnect and NVHBM custom base-die memory architecture. The unified portfolio is
The BLUETTI Elite 300 is a 3kWh portable power station intended for home backup, RV travel, camping, remote work, and jobs where dependable AC and DC power may not be nearby. Its 3,014.4Wh LiFePO₄ battery places it above the smaller units mainly used for phones, laptops, and campsite lighting, providing enough stored energy to power
Amazon Web Services and NVIDIA have announced a major expansion of their joint infrastructure initiatives, outlining plans to deploy an additional 2 million NVIDIA GPUs across AWS data centers between 2027 and 2028. Building on a 16-year engineering relationship, the expanded collaboration targets end-to-end scaling of AI infrastructure, encompassing accelerator capacity, host CPU architectures, high-bandwidth
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