NVIDIA has introduced a new business model to accelerate the deployment of AI infrastructure by combining revenue sharing with credit support for AI cloud providers. Announced July 1 in a blog post co-authored by CFO Colette Kress, the initiative is designed to expand access to accelerated computing for AI startups, model developers, enterprises, research organizations,
Samsung has started mass production of the PM1763, its first PCIe Gen6 enterprise SSD, pairing 9th-generation V-NAND with a newly developed 4nm controller. The 15.36TB flagship is rated for sequential reads up to 28,400 MB/s and writes up to 21,000 MB/s, with reads landing at 1.96x the 14,500 MB/s ceiling of the Gen5 PM1753 it
Researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Cleveland Clinic, and IBM have used quantum computers to calculate nine molecular configurations of FLiBe, a molten salt material widely considered a leading candidate for tritium breeding in future fusion reactors. The work, published on arXiv, marks the first time these specific molecular calculations have been performed using
At the RAISE Summit in Paris, DDN introduced Infinia 2.4, the latest release of its AI data platform designed for production AI, large-scale inference, and sovereign AI deployments. The update expands enterprise capabilities with multi-tenancy, governance, identity management, and new POSIX support while continuing to optimize data access for GPU-accelerated AI infrastructure. As enterprise AI
TensorWave has closed a $350 million Series B round at a $1.55 billion valuation to expand its AMD-based AI cloud infrastructure. The round, announced June 10, was co-led by Magnetar and AMD Ventures, with participation from existing investors Maverick Silicon, Nexus Venture Partners, and Western Frontier. The new capital will fund deployment of next-generation AMD
IBM has expanded its IBM z17 and IBM LinuxONE 5 portfolios with new rack-mount and single-frame configurations, marking the first time rack-mount systems are available across the company’s entire IBM Z and LinuxONE lineup. The additions are designed to provide enterprises with greater deployment flexibility while maintaining the performance, security, and software ecosystem of IBM’s
Canonical has released LXD 6.9 with updates aimed squarely at storage teams: a native driver for Dell PowerStore arrays, a new Fibre Channel connector for remote storage generally, and support for Dell PowerFlex 5. For a platform that started life as a container manager, that is a notable amount of enterprise SAN plumbing in a
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!?”,
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