{"slug": "south-korean-chip-startup-furiosaai-invades-european-datacenters", "title": "South Korean chip startup FuriosaAI invades European datacenters", "summary": "South Korean chip startup FuriosaAI is deploying its RNGD AI accelerators in Equinix's Lisbon datacenters, marking its entry into the European market. The move aims to provide European enterprises with high-performance AI hardware alternatives to dominant players like Nvidia.", "body_md": "### MOST POPULAR\n\n[AI](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/ai)\n\n-\nAI and ML\n\n#### South Korean chip startup FuriosaAI invades European datacenters\n\nRNGD accelerators land in Equinix's Lisbon DCs\n\n-\nAI and ML\n\n#### Enterprise AI still smarting from leaping before looking\n\nMajority report AI-related security incidents or vulnerabilities\n\n-\nScience\n\n#### Boffins bet on quantum computers, AI supers to solve fusion fuel dilemma\n\nDepartment of Energy, Cleveland Clinic, and IBM simulate a soup of molten salts and techno babble in pursuit of tritium\n\n-\nAI and ML\n\n#### Software engineers can still rake in big bucks by working for fast-growing companies\n\nAI's impact on tech business is complicated\n\n-\nsoftware\n\n#### Microsoft says the world is changing faster than it can keep up as it guts commercial, Xbox teams\n\nXbox chief says company can't afford to mistake longevity for inevitability\n\n[Infosec](https://beta.theregister.com/security)\n\n-\nSecurity\n\n#### Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacks\n\nPLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' And more!\n\n-\nSecurity\n\n#### Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attack\n\nPLUS: China upgrades smartphone surveillance tools; Ring eases anti-snooping stance; and more\n\n-\nBlack Hat and DEF CON\n\n#### DEF CON Franklin project enlists hackers to harden critical infrastructure\n\nVoting village reports have been so successful, says Jeff Moss, that the whole of DEF CON will now be included\n\n-\nSecurity\n\n#### EQT buys majority share in Swiss cybersecurity biz Acronis\n\nWent at equivalent of $3.5B+ valuation for entire firm, though portion sold not specified\n\n-\nMalware Month\n\n#### Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sight\n\nOn the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career\n\n[FOSS](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/FOSS)\n\n-\n#### Collabora releases CODE 26.04 as rivalry between FOSS cloudy office suites heats up\n\nNow with Markdown support and smarter formula error handling – plus integrated AI, though it's off by default\n\n-\n#### Blast from the past as GIMP 0.54 is revived in Flatpak form\n\nRetro-computing fun for the nostalgic with first (and last) release to use Motif instead of GTK\n\n-\n#### Bcachefs exits experimental status in new 'performance release'\n\nMore Rust, but more trouble with AI slop, too\n\n-\n#### France's digital sovereignty push is struggling to escape the Microsoft gravity well\n\nNextcloud rollout shows locally controlled storage is one thing; getting users off Office is quite another\n\n-\n#### History of CentOS: How a biochemist's Linux hobby project became the enterprise world's default operating system\n\nWhen a community came together after Red Hat said Windows was 'probably the right product'\n\n-\n#### Netflix wiz creates app to slash AI bills, then open sources it\n\nProject Headroom could save you big money, too", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/south-korean-chip-startup-furiosaai-invades-european-datacenters", "canonical_source": "https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/07/south-korean-chip-startup-furiosaai-invades-european-datacenters/5267884", "published_at": "2026-07-07 17:59:40+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-07 18:01:35.361340+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-chips", "artificial-intelligence", "ai-infrastructure", "ai-startups"], "entities": ["FuriosaAI", "Equinix", "RNGD", "Lisbon"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/south-korean-chip-startup-furiosaai-invades-european-datacenters", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/south-korean-chip-startup-furiosaai-invades-european-datacenters.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/south-korean-chip-startup-furiosaai-invades-european-datacenters.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/south-korean-chip-startup-furiosaai-invades-european-datacenters.jsonld"}}