NetApp has introduced StorageGRID 12.1, adding a federated global namespace and a range of performance, data management, and security enhancements aimed at AI, analytics, and other large-scale object storage workloads. The release is designed to simplify the management of globally distributed object data while improving the efficiency of AI data pipelines and modern cloud-native applications.

IBM introduced a new transistor architecture at the 0.7nm (7-angstrom) node, which it calls the industry’s first sub-1nm semiconductor technology. The development marks a significant research milestone as semiconductor manufacturers continue to push beyond the limits of traditional transistor scaling. The experimental technology integrates nearly 100 billion transistors on a chip about the size of

Dell Technologies has introduced the PowerEdge XE8812, a new liquid-cooled server platform designed for large-scale inference and high-performance computing workloads. The system joins the Dell AI Factory with the NVIDIA portfolio. It is built around the NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL4 architecture, offering up to 144 GPUs per rack in a dense rack-scale configuration. The announcement

Qualcomm Technologies had a full plate during its 2026 Investor Day, laying out an aggressive data center strategy built around three major announcements: the acquisition of AI software company Modular Inc., the introduction of the Dragonfly C1000 CPU and expanded inference accelerator portfolio, and deepened partnerships with Hugging Face and Meta. Together, the moves signal

Intel’s return to boxed workstation processors arrived on February 2, 2026, when the company announced the Xeon 600 series, codenamed Granite Rapids-WS, with retail parts reaching shelves in late March. The launch folded the old Xeon W-2500 and W-3500 lines into a single family of 11 SKUs on the new W890 chipset and LGA4710 socket,

AMD continues to strengthen its position in the global high-performance computing (HPC) market, with the latest TOP500 and Green500 rankings showing broad adoption of AMD EPYC processors and Instinct accelerators across leading supercomputing deployments. According to the June 2026 TOP500 list, AMD technology now powers 191 systems, an 11% year-over-year increase, and accounted for 41%

At ISC 2026, DDN announced a broad expansion of its AI and HPC data platform portfolio, introducing new hardware, software, and platform capabilities designed to improve GPU utilization, accelerate AI inference, and simplify large-scale AI infrastructure deployments. The announcements include the AI400X3M storage appliance, the general availability of DDN’s distributed KV Cache acceleration technology integrated

Micron has announced a strategic agreement with Anthropic focused on AI memory and storage architecture, long-term component supply, enterprise deployment of Anthropic’s Claude models within Micron, and participation in Anthropic’s Series H funding round. The partnership aligns infrastructure development more closely with the requirements of large-scale AI training and inference environments. The companies plan to

For most of the last decade, the high-core workstation conversation has been largely led by AMD. Threadripper PRO pushed core counts, cache, and PCIe lanes past what Intel’s Xeon-W line could offer; the prior Xeon-W flagship topped out at 60 cores, while AMD kept climbing. Intel’s Xeon 600 series, launched in February of this year,