SK hynix says it shipped samples of its 12-stack HBM4E (High Bandwidth Memory) to major customers, marking the next step in the company’s AI memory roadmap. The company said the samples were delivered on schedule and that it will work closely with partners toward timely mass production. HBM4E builds on the company’s HBM portfolio with

SK hynix has announced plans to invest KRW 100 trillion (about US$65 billion at the current exchange rate) in Cheongju, South Korea, to expand its NAND flash manufacturing and advanced packaging capacity to meet rising AI-driven memory demand. The announcement was made by President and CEO Kwak Noh-Jung during the National Briefing on the Strategy

NVIDIA has dropped the subscription requirement for Omniverse. The platform is now free for development, production, and redistribution, with no NVIDIA AI Enterprise subscription required. For a product that carried a $4,500-per-GPU-per-year list price under NVIDIA AI Enterprise, and whose Nucleus server pricing prompted a developer forum thread titled “Pricing: $25,000 for the nucleus server!?”,

JetCool has introduced a liquid-cooled version of the Dell PowerEdge XE7745, combining the server, direct-to-chip liquid cooling, rack infrastructure, deployment services, lifecycle support, and unified warranty coverage into a single integrated offering. The solution is delivered factory-tested and ready for deployment, simplifying the rollout of high-density AI and HPC infrastructure while reducing operational complexity. The

Supermicro has introduced a new Data Center Building Block Solutions (DCBBS) Blueprint for HPC based on the NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL4 platform. The announcement extends the company’s DCBBS architecture strategy beyond enterprise AI deployments to scientific computing environments, providing a reference framework for deploying large-scale HPC and AI infrastructure. The new blueprint follows the NVIDIA

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

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

As quantum computing continues its transition from research labs to practical computing environments, AMD and IBM are positioning themselves around a common vision: hybrid computing architectures that combine quantum processors, high-performance computing (HPC), and AI into a unified platform. Recent disclosures from both companies outline a growing partnership focused on building the infrastructure required to