NVIDIA announced a broad initiative to evolve Universal Scene Description (USD) to become the foundation of the open metaverse and 3D internet. NVIDIA revealed the initiative during its SIGGRAPH special address when it shared upcoming updates to evolve USD.

NVIDIA used the special address presentation at SIGGRAPH to announce NVIDIA Omniverse Avatar Cloud Engine (ACE), a suite of cloud-native AI models and services to simplify building and customizing lifelike virtual assistants and digital humans.

Microchip Technology announced the expansion of its serial-attached memory controller portfolio with the new SMC2000 series of Compute Express Link (CXL) based Smart Memory Controllers. The new controllers enable CPUs, GPUs, and System on Chips (SoCs) to utilize CXL interfaces to connect DDR4 or DDR5 memory.

Phison has announced its new X1 advanced controller-based SSD platform designed to tackle enterprise workloads with high durability requirements. Featuring SK hynix V6 128L TLC NAND, the X1 was built in partnership with Seagate Technology to meet the demands of faster and smarter global data-center infrastructures.

QNAP Systems, Inc. has announced the availability of the TS-h1090FU, the company’s newest high-density NVMe all-flash NAS that features U.2 NVMe PCIe Gen 4 x4 SSD architecture. Purpose-built for high throughput and low latency workloads, it comes equipped with dual-port 25GbE connectivity, PCIe Gen 4 expandability, ZFS reliability, and QNAP’s SSD optimization technologies.

DapuStor has announced the Haishen5, the company’s new line of PCIe Gen5 enterprise and data center SSDs. Powered by a new Marvell controller and TLC or QLC NAND, the Haishen5 series offers a balanced combination of performance and cost for a variety of application scenarios. Haishen5 comes in E3.S, E1.S, and U.2 form factors and

KIOXIA America, supporting the Linux Foundation’s Software-Enabled Flash open source project, has announced new software-defined technology and sample hardware based on PCIe and NVMe technology. The new technology uncouples flash storage from legacy HDD protocols, allowing flash to realize its full capability and potential as a storage media.

GIGABYTE has announced the MP72-HB0a dual-socket motherboard, a first-to-market solution that features up to 256 Arm cores. Launched alongside the MP72-HB0a are the G242-P35 and G242-P36 servers, which are highlighted by up to 120TB of Gen4 NVMe storage and Ampere Altra or Ampere Altra Max processors. The new motherboard and GPU-centric servers are ideal for

Silicon Motion has announced MonTitan, a high-performance PCIe Gen5 SSD solution platform purpose-built for demanding datacenter and enterprise applications. The Silicon Motion MonTitan platform features a new ASIC and FW architecture optimized for performance and quality of service (QoS).