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Xscape Photonics raises $37m, debuts FalconX laser
Hyperscale

Xscape Photonics raises $37m, debuts FalconX laser

Xscape Photonics raises $37m to double valuation and launch FalconX, an eight-wavelength redundant laser for AI data centre networks.

By Catherine Knowles • 4 min read • Thu, 12th Mar 2026

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OVHcloud adds Quobly quantum computer & Welinq tie-up
Data centers

OVHcloud adds Quobly quantum computer & Welinq tie-up

The additions broaden access to mixed quantum systems as OVHcloud seeks to build Europe's quantum infrastructure around its sovereign cloud.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 4 min read • Wed, 17th Jun 2026
Lightmatter joins NVIDIA NVLink Fusion AI ecosystem
Hyperscale

Lightmatter joins NVIDIA NVLink Fusion AI ecosystem

The move could help hyperscalers cut cabling in dense AI clusters by half as optical links become central to NVIDIA's custom-chip strategy.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Thu, 4th Jun 2026
Marvell targets AI connectivity bottleneck with NVIDIA boost
Semiconductors

Marvell targets AI connectivity bottleneck with NVIDIA boost

AI data centres are hitting copper limits, pushing Marvell and Nvidia towards optics as clusters grow larger and more distributed.

By Sean Mitchell • 7 min read • Wed, 3rd Jun 2026
Marvell launches Teralynx T100 switch chip for AI clusters
Hyperscale

Marvell launches Teralynx T100 switch chip for AI clusters

Demand for AI clusters is pushing networking hardware to the limit, and Marvell says its new chip could cut rack power use and latency.

By Sean Mitchell • 3 min read • Wed, 3rd Jun 2026
AMD hands AI networking protocol to Open Compute Project
Data centers

AMD hands AI networking protocol to Open Compute Project

The move could help ease bottlenecks as huge AI clusters struggle to keep hundreds of thousands of GPUs synchronised during network faults.

By Mark Tarre • 3 min read • Mon, 11th May 2026
Kopin & Fabric.AI back MicroLED optical links for AI
Semiconductors

Kopin & Fabric.AI back MicroLED optical links for AI

The USD $15 million order signals early commercial traction as the partners target lower-power, faster links between chips in AI data centres.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 4 min read • Fri, 1st May 2026
Google unveils Virgo Network for next-gen AI workloads
Hyperscale

Google unveils Virgo Network for next-gen AI workloads

Its new fabric promises lower latency and more bandwidth for training, as Google links up to 134,000 TPU 8t chips across sites.

By Sean Mitchell • 3 min read • Thu, 23rd Apr 2026
Google Cloud expands AI infrastructure with new chips
Storage

Google Cloud expands AI infrastructure with new chips

Customers will soon get faster, cheaper AI training and inference as Google Cloud adds new TPUs, GPU instances and networking.

By Sean Mitchell • 5 min read • Thu, 23rd Apr 2026
Aria launches Deep Networking platform with USD $125 million
Network Infrastructure

Aria launches Deep Networking platform with USD $125 million

The funding backs a push into AI data centres, where better network control could lift model utilisation and cut token costs.

By Karen Joy Bacudo • 4 min read • Thu, 9th Apr 2026
F5 & Nvidia extend AI tie-up to cut inference costs
Virtualisation

F5 & Nvidia extend AI tie-up to cut inference costs

F5 deepens Nvidia AI partnership, tying BIG-IP Next to BlueField-3 DPUs to boost token throughput and slash real-time inference costs.

By Catherine Knowles • 4 min read • Thu, 19th Mar 2026
Nvidia & OpenNebula deepen integration for AI factories
Private Cloud

Nvidia & OpenNebula deepen integration for AI factories

Nvidia deepens its OpenNebula tie-up to automate multi-tenant 'AI factories', unifying GPUs, DPUs and networking under one control plane.

By Kaleah Salmon • 4 min read • Wed, 18th Mar 2026
AMD pitches EPYC CPUs as orchestration engines for AI
Virtualisation

AMD pitches EPYC CPUs as orchestration engines for AI

AMD is pitching EPYC chips as the orchestration engines for “agentic AI”, arguing CPUs must steer ever-busier accelerators in data centres.

By Mark Tarre • 4 min read • Wed, 18th Mar 2026
Akamai rolls out NVIDIA-powered AI Grid at the edge
Gaming

Akamai rolls out NVIDIA-powered AI Grid at the edge

Akamai debuts NVIDIA-powered AI Grid to run low-latency inference across 4,400 edge sites, extending its distributed Inference Cloud.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 4 min read • Tue, 17th Mar 2026
Equinix unveils global distributed AI hub & fabric
Network Infrastructure

Equinix unveils global distributed AI hub & fabric

Equinix launches a global distributed AI hub and Fabric Intelligence layer to unify, govern and optimise multi-cloud AI infrastructure.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 5 min read • Thu, 12th Mar 2026

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Visionbay chooses Netris for Taiwan's largest GPU cluster
Private Cloud

Visionbay chooses Netris for Taiwan's largest GPU cluster

Hardware-enforced tenant separation will help Visionbay scale Taiwan's largest GPU cluster without risking customer data leakage or network outages.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Thu, 4th Jun 2026
NBN fibre trial hits 230Gbps with Nokia tech blend
Gaming

NBN fibre trial hits 230Gbps with Nokia tech blend

NBN Co and Nokia hit 230 Gbps on existing FTTP in a world-first trial, showing multiple optical technologies can share the same fibre.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 4 min read • Tue, 24th Mar 2026