Wafer AI CEO Emilio Andere claims that AMD GPUs can match Nvidia's performance with proper software optimization, citing a July 2026 test where Wafer's optimization achieved approximately 80% of Nvidi…
AI optimization startup Wafer has raised a $40 million Series A at a valuation north of $200 million, a 50x increase from its $4 million seed round closed in April 2026, after turning down acquisition…
TIME's 2026 list of top AI leaders excludes Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and AMD CEO Lisa Su, according to a report from a hardware-focused publication. The omission of the two prominent semiconductor exec…
World Labs, the AI startup co-founded by Stanford professor Fei-Fei Li, unveiled Atlas on September 1, 2026, an omni world model for spatial intelligence that generates and reconstructs 3D images and …
Europe's EuroHPC JU signed a €387.8 million contract on August 31, 2026, for LUMI-AI, an AMD-only supercomputer to be built by Bull and deployed in Kajaani, Finland, in the second half of 2027, snubbi…
The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking has signed a procurement contract with Bull to deliver LUMI-AI, a next-generation supercomputer at the CSC - IT Center for Science Ltd. data center in Kajaani, Finland, p…
A developer has published a bash script that fixes multiple Hyprland and Omarchy display issues on the ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 with AMD iGPU and NVIDIA dGPU. The script addresses the Aquamarine atomic D…
AMD's ATOM and vLLM-ATOM inference engines were optimized for high-interactivity LLM inference, targeting responsiveness for single users rather than batch throughput. The optimizations focus on remov…
VMware, now part of Broadcom, launched its own 'AI Factory' at the VMware Explore conference on Monday, a rebranded and enhanced version of its Private AI Foundation that now supports AMD Instinct GPU…
Enterprises are moving AI workloads back on-premises due to rising token costs, security concerns, and spiking DRAM prices, according to Krish Prasad, senior vice president and general manager of the …
SUSE is positioning hardware portability as a core element of sovereign AI, allowing enterprises to use Nvidia accelerators today without rebuilding their AI infrastructure if they switch to another s…
Broadcom's VMware division announced new AI-focused capabilities for its Cloud Foundation (VCF) platform, including an AI factory stack with validated hardware and software partners, new VCF Private A…
Broadcom announced the VMware AI Factory, a packaged AI infrastructure stack for on-premises production AI, at VMware Explore in Las Vegas, aiming to reduce deployment time from weeks to hours. The co…
AMD, Cisco, and HUMAIN launched a joint venture to build up to 1 GW of AI data center infrastructure in Saudi Arabia by 2030, starting with a 100 MW deployment using AMD Instinct MI450 GPUs and Cisco …
NC AI will showcase its physical AI technology at LEAP 2026 in Riyadh, operating a joint pavilion for the Korean Full-Stack AI Consortium alongside MegazoneCloud, Upstage, FuriosaAI, and Uracle. The e…
A developer demonstrated that running large language models locally without a GPU is feasible on consumer hardware, achieving 10-35 tokens per second on CPUs and Apple silicon. The key insight is that…
AMD, Cisco and HUMAIN, a PIF company, announced that AMD Instinct MI355X GPU-based AI infrastructure built on Cisco Silicon One-based AI networking is now live in Saudi Arabia and serving HUMAIN custo…
The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking has signed a 387.8 million euro contract with Bull to deliver LUMI-AI, a supercomputer powered by AMD Instinct MI430X GPUs and 6th Gen AMD EPYC 256-core processors, at CS…
AMD, Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) and the Digital Cooperation Organization (DCO) announced an open developer ecosystem initiative to accelerate AI innova…
AMD's general manager of its data center GPU business, Andrew Dieckmann, said the company's first rack-scale AI system, Helios, is designed to challenge Nvidia's dominance by offering openness and cus…