Chelsio Communications has introduced its seventh-generation AI Interconnect Platform, expanding its Ethernet offload portfolio with SmartNICs, storage controllers, and Data Processing Units. Built on the company’s Unified Wire architecture, the T7 platform targets AI training and inference clusters, disaggregated storage, cloud infrastructure, and high-performance networking environments. The platform supports Ethernet speeds from 1GbE through 400GbE

WEKA has launched two connected products: NeuralMesh 6, its most significant software release to date, and WEKApod 3, a new generation of storage appliances designed and engineered by WEKA to run it. NeuralMesh 6 remains deployable on customer-selected hardware, while WEKApod provides the turnkey path, shipping with the software preinstalled. NeuralMesh 6 introduces native multi-tenancy,

AMD has expanded its strategic partnership with Microsoft to cover GPUs, CPUs, networking, and software across Azure infrastructure. The collaboration includes Microsoft’s planned deployment of AMD’s Helios Rackscale Solution for AI inference workloads supporting frontier models, Azure AI services, and customer applications. The deployment makes Microsoft the first hyperscaler to publicly commit to Helios at

NVIDIA has introduced Omniverse libraries, a set of software components designed to bring physical AI capabilities into existing 3D applications and prepare content for simulation. The libraries are intended to help developers, technical artists, and engineering teams build workflows that inspect scenes, validate assets, model physical behavior, and generate sensor data for robotics, factory automation,

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced on July 16 that Broadcom has elevated its membership to Platinum. The move expands Broadcom’s participation in the CNCF ecosystem as enterprises operationalize AI, analytics, and other data-intensive workloads on Kubernetes-based platforms. The announcement follows Broadcom’s recent contribution of Velero to the CNCF Sandbox. Velero is a Kubernetes-native

Dell Technologies closed the first quarter of 2026 as the top external enterprise storage vendor worldwide, according to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Storage Systems Tracker released in June, posting 31.2% market share on 40.8% year-over-year growth, nearly double the 22.7% pace of the overall segment. By IDC’s count, the rest of the top five vendors

Microsoft and 3M have announced a strategic partnership covering both data center optical connectivity and enterprise AI adoption. Under the July 15 agreement, Azure becomes the first announced hyperscale cloud provider to deploy 3M’s Expanded Beam Optical (EBO) technology across its data centers, while 3M adopts Microsoft’s AI and digital platforms across several of its

NVIDIA has disclosed a comprehensive multi-track strategy to accelerate AI adoption in Japan, combining a new national AI infrastructure buildout with a broad ecosystem of industry-specific models and specialized edge hardware. The strategy moves Japan toward a unified platform approach that addresses localized language requirements, demographic shifts, and industrial workflows across the robotics, healthcare, and

Axelera AI has launched Voyager Wingman, an AI-powered assistant designed to accelerate development with its Voyager Toolkit. The tool was first shown at CES in January and has since undergone extensive testing ahead of this broader release. Wingman lets developers use natural language to query the Voyager SDK and Axelera’s full documentation set, helping them