Data Center Hardware Highlights: August 2026
Data Center Knowledge's most-read hardware stories from July through mid-August 2026 highlight an infrastructure-first phase of AI buildouts, with energy, minerals, and networking taking center stage.…
Data Center Knowledge's most-read hardware stories from July through mid-August 2026 highlight an infrastructure-first phase of AI buildouts, with energy, minerals, and networking taking center stage.…
Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger, now a general partner at Playground Global, said at Ai4 2026 that today's GPUs are power inefficient and computationally limited, arguing that AI's future depends on im…
Intel's Optane memory and storage technology, co-developed with Micron and based on 3D XPoint, was discontinued in 2022 after failing to find a market due to high cost and slow density improvements, b…
SK Hynix is developing 3D stacked DRAM-on-logic for AI workloads, recruiting design engineers in San Jose, California, as part of a strategic hiring exercise to collaborate with U.S.-based customers. …
Intel recorded its fastest revenue growth in 15 years in the second quarter of 2026, with revenue up 25% year-over-year and a 59% increase in its data center and AI business, driven by surging demand …
Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has joined Playground Capital as a general partner to help semiconductor startups revive Moore's Law through advances in lithography, taking a board seat at xLight, a po…
Kalshi is building a tool to predict the future price of computing power, according to Bloomberg. The prediction market platform will analyze weekly and monthly compute contracts using an algorithm to…
Former Intel and VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger is leading Gloo's effort to integrate artificial intelligence into faith-based organizations, aiming to enhance community outreach and engagement. The move ch…
AI executives including Pat Gelsinger and Lumentum report demand is nearly unlimited, with energy as the only constraint, but chip and data-center stocks are volatile as the PHLX chip index's 60% year…
Faith-based AI company Gloo Holdings Inc. faces a critical juncture after reporting $438 million in total losses since its 2013 founding, with a stock sale planned for July 10 to raise over $20 millio…
XLight, a US-backed startup chaired by former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger, is raising $350 million to develop an alternative EUV light source that could challenge ASML's monopoly on chipmaking equipment. …