Huawei unveils Ascend 920 AI chip, will start shipping 910C to Chinese customers from May – report
Chip launch follows additional US export restrictions on Nvidia H20 GPUs to China
News - Charlotte Trueman, DatacenterDynamics
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Bitcoin and AI infrastructure startup Auradine closes $153m funding round
Company also launched new AuraLinks AI business unit
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QpiAI launches 25-qubit superconducting quantum computer in India
Wants to scale the system to 100 logical qubits by 2030
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ASML misses analyst expectations in Q1 2025, says demand “remains strong” despite tariff uncertainty
Company posted net sales of €7.7bn for the three month period
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US gov’t imposes restrictions on Nvidia H20s, chipmaker claims will cost it $5.5bn
Follows Nvidia's announcement it plans to produce AI supercomputers in the US
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PsiQuantum signs $10.8m contract with US Air Force for quantum photonics research
Chips will be used to support use cases within the Air Force
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Telus to deploy 500 Nvidia Hopper GPUs at Rimouski data center later this year
Canadian telco also planning to expand its Kamloops site to house a supercomputer
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Anton 3 supercomputer begins operations at Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
System funded by a $3.15 million, five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health
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IBM launches Aachen, a 156-qubit quantum system powered by Heron r2 processor
System deployed in the company’s IBM Quantum Data Center in Germany
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South Korean gov’t announces increase in chips industry support package amidst incoming US tariffs
Government also approved Samsung’s request to increase work week for chip employees above legal maximum
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AMD unveils first 2nm Epyc CPU ‘Venice,’ announces chip production at TSMC Arizona fab
Company’s 6th-gen processor has been taped out on TSMC’s N2 process technology
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Australia’s Defense Dept. says Taingiwilta supercomputer is fully operational
System specifications still not been shared
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UK gov’t announces £121m to further support quantum technologies
Funding package made up of new and previously announced investments
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Intel sells 51% stake in Altera to Silver Lake for $8.75bn
Intel first acquired the FPGA chip company in 2015 for $16.7bn
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Trump: Chips tariffs still coming, Chinese electronics still taxed but in a “different Tariff ‘bucket’”
President says there will be some flexibility with semiconductor tariffs
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UALink Consortium releases 200G 1.0 specification for AI accelerator interconnects
Group working to establish an open industry standard for AI interconnect solutions
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Sparrow Quantum raises $24m to expand production of photonic quantum chips
Funding round included participation from European Innovation Council
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nEye Systems raises $58m for optical switch technology
Startup has raised $72.5m since founding in 2020
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US gov’t decides not to further restrict Nvidia H20 exports to China, follows Jensen Huang’s visit to Mar-a-Lago
Additional controls were due to come into force this week
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NTT launches AI inference chip for low-power video processing at the Edge
Will look to commercialize the offering in 2025
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European Commission plans network of AI clusters across continent
Commission also plans to propose Cloud and AI Development Act to triple EU data center capacity
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Google unveils seventh-generation TPU, Ironwood
Comes in both 256 and 9,216 chip configurations
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Micron to impose tariff surcharge on memory modules and SSDs
Company had previously disclosed plans to pass on tariff-related costs to customers
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University of Edinburgh deploys Cerebras CS-3 cluster at EPCC supercomputing center
Wafer Scale Engine processors provide both training and inferencing capabilities
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IBM unveils next-generation z17 mainframe
Has been specifically engineered to support AI workloads
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Serbian gov’t signs contact with Eviden for €50m supercomputer
Will contain 20x more chips than country’s existing Nvidia-based system
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EuroHPC JU upgrades Bulgarian Discoverer supercomputer with four DGX H200s
System renamed Discoverer+
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TSMC and Intel discuss preliminary agreement regarding proposed foundry JV - report
Deal could see TSMC take 20 percent stake in Intel’s foundry operations