IBM has announced that DARPA has selected it for Stage C, the third phase of the Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI). DARPA launched QBI in 2024 to determine whether an industrially useful fault-tolerant quantum computer can be built by 2033, and it defines such a system as one whose computational value exceeds its cost. In Stage
Seagate and Toshiba have each held preliminary talks to acquire TDK’s hard disk drive recording head business in a potential multibillion-dollar deal, Bloomberg reported this week. The report describes TDK as the only independent HDD head supplier, selling to all three nearline drive makers. Western Digital and Seagate build most of their heads in-house and
CTERA announced CTERA Forward Deployed Engineering on October 6, a service that places CTERA engineers inside customer environments to put specific AI use cases into production on the customer’s own unstructured file data. Each engagement is tied to a defined business outcome, runs against real enterprise file data, and is designed to leave the customer’s
The ASUS ExpertCenter PN55 is the AMD side of ASUS’s commercial mini PC line, a 130 x 130 x 34mm box that puts a Ryzen AI 400 Series processor, two DDR5 SO-DIMM slots, two M.2 2280 slots, and dual 2.5GbE behind a fingerprint reader and a Copilot key. Our review unit runs the Ryzen AI
Scality today launched Scality AI Inference Factory, an open-code software stack for running open-weight models on infrastructure the customer owns. Scality validates, ships, and maintains the whole stack, which places its AI Data Infrastructure (ADI) object storage under the inference layer as a shared key-value (KV) cache, and it is aimed at enterprises, government agencies,
KIOXIA America announced the LD4 Series today, its first E1.L SSD built with BiCS FLASH generation 8 QLC flash. The drive targets read-intensive storage in high-density 1U servers and is sampling to select customers now at 15.36TB and 30.72TB, on an architecture KIOXIA says it has already validated for capacities up to 122.88TB. KIOXIA aims
NVIDIA and Microsoft opened pre-orders for RTX Spark Windows laptops today, with availability set for October 16, compact desktops to follow in November, and a preview of DGX Station for Windows that NVIDIA will release in the fourth quarter. The announcements came at Microsoft’s Windows AI and Surface event in San Francisco, where Jensen Huang
The ASUS NUC 16 Pro moves the NUC Pro line from a 4×4-inch footprint to 5×4 inches, and ASUS spends the extra inch on a second M.2 slot, a second 2.5GbE port, and a cooling stack of two exhaust fans, a dedicated DIMM fan, and three heat pipes. Our review unit pairs the Intel Core
Dell has announced the first XPS laptop built on NVIDIA’s RTX Spark superchip, the XPS 16 Creator Edition, alongside a compact Dell Creator Edition Desktop on the same silicon and a Windows version of its GB300 deskside AI workstation, which is now called Dell Pro Precision with GB300. The laptop opens for pre-order at Best
Nasuni has announced that AI Activate and Resilio 6.0 are generally available on the Nasuni File Data Platform, with Enterprise Search following later this quarter. Together with the content classification Nasuni picked up in its recent DryvIQ acquisition, the additions let AI tools and people work against the same live file data in Nasuni’s global
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