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IonQ will install its Superion 256 quantum processing unit at Nvidia's Accelerated Quantum Research Center, the first on-premise quantum system at the facility, with deployment targeted for 2027. The 256-qubit trapped-io…
Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 chip at its annual Snapdragon Summit 2026, positioning the processor for agentic AI computing on mobile phones. The announcement highlighted the Oryon CPU with flex…
Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 chipsets at the Snapdragon Summit in Maui, Hawaii, on September 23, 2026, with EVP and GM Durga Malladi saying AI agents will make stand…
Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 series on 23 September 2026, led by the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, which Qualcomm calls its first 2nm-class mobile chipset and the first mobile CPU to reach 5 GHz. Qu…
Alibaba Group unveiled its Zhenwu V900 AI chip and confirmed plans to build a 10 trillion parameter model at its Apsara conference in Hangzhou on Tuesday, sending Alibaba shares up 5% to a one-month high. CEO Eddie Wu sa…
France's CEA is partnering with quantum computing company Alice & Bob to integrate Alice & Bob's software stack into hybrid quantum-HPC workflows via Bull's Qaptiva platform, aiming to offer an alternative to Nvidia's CU…
Alibaba Group announced on September 22 that it will commercialize its Zhenwu V900 AI semiconductor in the first quarter of 2027, six months earlier than planned, citing surging demand for AI computing infrastructure. Al…
Deep Green, a UK-based data center startup, has secured £200 million in investment from Octopus Energy Generation to deploy 300 MW of heat-reusing data center infrastructure across the UK, Ireland, Europe, and North Amer…
Xi Jinping and Donald Trump will meet Thursday at a military airbase to discuss AI guardrails, with both sides signaling they will not slow development, according to Bloomberg. Two days before the summit, Alibaba Group H…
A developer's technical breakdown of local LLM memory requirements shows that a 70-billion-parameter model needs roughly 140 GB of VRAM at FP16, 70 GB at INT8, and about 35 GB at 4-bit quantization, meaning even an 80 GB…
Alibaba Group will open its first cloud regions in Turkey, Finland and the Netherlands over the next 12 months and expand data centres in Malaysia, Germany, the United Arab Emirates, France and Hong Kong, Alibaba Cloud I…
China has launched a survey of its data centres' reliance on Broadcom switches, according to the Financial Times, as part of a drive to boost domestic suppliers and reduce dependence on foreign AI infrastructure. The rev…
Alibaba Cloud announced at the Apsara conference in Hangzhou that it will open its first cloud regions in Turkey, Finland, and the Netherlands within 12 months, part of Alibaba Group's $53 billion (roughly 380 billion yu…
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. will open its first cloud regions in Turkey, Finland and the Netherlands over the next 12 months and expand data centers in Malaysia, Germany, the United Arab Emirates, France and Hong Kong, Al…
Qualcomm debuted the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, which the company calls the world's first mobile processors with a 5GHz CPU. Both platforms emphasize on-device AI and are slated to pow…
LG Electronics and SK Enmove agreed Wednesday to jointly develop next-generation cooling materials and technologies for artificial intelligence data centers and other high-heat applications, including low-emission refrig…
Qualcomm unveiled two new Snapdragon platforms at its annual Snapdragon Summit on Tuesday — the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 and Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 — with the flagship chip supporting on-device AI models of up …
Meta's Muse AI model is drawing industry attention as a serious contender against OpenAI and Anthropic, according to In The Loop host Ejaaz Ahamadeen, reporting from Qualcomm's Snapdragon Summit in Maui. Qualcomm CFO and…
Qualcomm CFO and COO Akash Palkhiwala discussed the rise of agentic AI and the differences between cloud and edge computing with In the Loop host Ejaaz Ahamadeen at Qualcomm's annual Snapdragon Summit in Maui, Hawaii, in…
Qualcomm released an Android chip built for AI, according to CNBC Technology, as the overall smartphone market is expected to contract 14% in units shipped in 2026 amid a memory shortage. The launch pairs a new AI-focuse…