@HPCpodcast with Shahin Khan and Doug Black

- Jim Keller's fab for fabs - First Arm AGI servers spotted at Computex - 3D-printed Small modular Rector module? - Fuel Cell Technology - Data Center Water Use [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/HPCNB_20260706.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20260706 appeared first on OrionX.net .

- IBM demonstrates sub-1nm chip tech - IBM as we see it - Executive orders for quantum innovation and risk mitigation - US, UK, EU roadmaps for PQC readiness - ORNL next-gen supercomputer Discovery’s Center for Accelerated Application Readiness (CAAR) [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/HPCNB_20260629.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20260629 appeared first on Or...

The new TOP500 list of the most powerful supercomputers was released today at the ISC conference , with a surprising new system in the top spot.  After nearly a decade of staying on the sidelines, China re-entered the race with the first system to exceed 2 exaflops in 64-bits on the HPL benchmark.  As usual, Shahin and Doug go through the list and the stats with their commentary and analysis, look...

- Electron-on-helium qubits - Is the new Huawei Kirin chip equivalent of a TSMC 3nm chip? - Intel launches 18A-P node, with Power Boost dual-contact transistor - Intersect360 announces market size and forecast - TOP500 analysis coming later this week [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/HPCNB_20260622.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20260622 appeared first on Ori...

- SpaceX IPO. And HPC - Anti-Nvidia Data-Center Startups - Cerebras IPO as a "bet on Nvidia Fatigue”? - PNNL/ASHRAE/NEMA AI Data Center Energy Performance Framework - ISC2026 Conference next week [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/HPCNB_20260615.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20260615 appeared first on OrionX.net .

- Microsoft Build: AI-native software, new chips, quantum progress - Microsoft Maia 200, Cobalt 200, Majorana 2 - Nvidia’s Windows PC push and RTX Spark - Europe’s proposed CADA, AI Act, AI Continent Action Plan - Global AI strategies: US, China, Canada, India, Japan, and Europe [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/HPCNB_20260608.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 2...

- Huawei's Tau Scaling, LogicFolding: breakthrough or brilliant positioning? - China’s new tech disclosure strategy continues - Wafer-scale chips in China? - Snowflake’s $6B AWS deal and what it says about AI inference demand - The Return of CPU Computing - NVIDIA’s CPU-only Vera-based Supercomputer and the rise of agentic AI infrastructure - OpenAI math breakthrough and what it says about AI-assi...

- CHIPS Act awards for Quantum Tech - IBM foundry for superconducting quantum - Global Foundries factory for various quantum modalities - NSF X-Labs, other initiatives - Emergence of what might be called a National Discovery Infrastructure - Cerebras IPO - IPO Mania: SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic - ~$650B: Just 4 hyperscalaers's announced AI investments for 2026 - Intel + Tenstorrent acquisition rumor...

From Double-Wide Racks to "Deep Space RISC-V" - HPE Juniper Broadcom AMD Helios - OCP Open Rack Wide - Sale-up on Ethernet, UALoE - China signals strength - China’s Jiuzhang 4.0 photonic quantum computer - High Availability and "Rad-Hard” chips in space - NASA's New Radiation-Hardened AI Processor [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/HPCNB_20260518.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC N...

- Nvidia, Corning, big optical fiber deal - Optical computing - New MRC RDMA on Ethernet fabrics - MRC vs RoCEv2 and Infiniband - AMD strengths in GPUs and CPUs - Ocean wave energy for data centers [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/HPCNB_20260511.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20260511 appeared first on OrionX.net .

- Nvidia’s secret weapon - Why CPU-only supercomputers - China’s LineShine Supercomputer - Japan’s Fugaku.next [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/HPCNB_20260504.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20260504 appeared first on OrionX.net .

Olivier Ezratty , one of the most respected independent voices in quantum technologies, is the special guest of the @HPCpodcast in a lively, candid, and wide-ranging discussion of the state of the quantum industry. [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/108@HPCpodcast_ID_Olivier-Ezratty_Quantum-Computing_20260428.mp3"][/audio] The post @HPCpodcast-108: Olivier Ezratty on State o...

- Cisco Universal Quantum Switch - Co-Packaged Optics (CPO) enters real world deployments - CPO: AMD, NVDA, TSMC, Global Foundries - Vox checks in on Los Alamos use of AI for nuclear simulations [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/HPCNB_20260427.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20260427 appeared first on OrionX.net .

- DARPA HARQ Heterogeneous quantum architectures - HARQ program, IonQ, memQ - TSMC and ASML bullish on AI demand - Stanford AI Index 2026 insights - Global AI competition [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/HPCNB_20260420.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20260420 appeared first on OrionX.net .

- Intel Tesla Terafab - Intel Google CPU IPU - Fujitsu U. Osaka early-FTQC - Caltech data sample streaming for quantum computing in AI - UALink 1.0 Specs vs NVLink [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/HPCNB_20260413.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20260413 appeared first on OrionX.net .

- Nvidia invests $2bn in Marvell - NVLink Fusion - Why big companies invest in small ones - Andrew Ng on anti-AI activism - 32, 16, 8, TurboQuant at 3.5 bits... do I hear 1? - PrismML’s Bonsai-8B 1-bit LLM [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/HPCNB_20260406.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20260406 appeared first on OrionX.net .

-Arm enters the chip business with Arm AGI CPU - Is AI inference increasing the CPU:GPU ratio? - Google’s TurboQuant algorithm - Data center energy efficiency - Bringing back a 2,000-year-old cement battery - India’s chip industry - TSMC's 2nm capacity crunch - $20B for a TeraFab ? [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/HPCNB_20260330.mp3"][/audio]   The post HPC News Bytes...

- GTC postview, list of announcements - GPUs and China - DoE $293m funding RFA for technology challenges - Volume on HPC-AI-Quantum co-design, call for contributions - Turing Award goes to QKD inventors, quantum cryptography pioneers [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/HPCNB_20260323.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20260323 appeared first on OrionX.net .

- GTC, G stands for growth - Nvidia’s historical and future market segments - Nvidia Nemotron agentic model, LPU team - Chipper clouds: Cerebras+AWS, d-Matrix+Gimlet Labs - AI’s next big thing? AMI’s "world model” JEPA - AMI’s massive $1B+ *seed* round - European AI companies - InsideHPC signs off [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/HPCNB_20260316.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC N...

- AI+HW 2035: Shaping the Next Decade - CPUs are in short supply too - What is causing IT shortages - Foxconn is upbeat about 2026 - Foxconn, its rivals, and its customers - EuroHPC Summit 2026 postponed [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/HPCNB_20260309.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20260309 appeared first on OrionX.net .

- AI for military use; Anthropic, OpenAI, DoD - SambaNova: Intel partnership, new SN50 chip - GTC 2026 - Mobile World Congress 2026 [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/HPCNB_20260302.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20260302 appeared first on OrionX.net .

- AI power needs - Small Modular Reactors (SMR) - US military, DOE, airlift small reactor - Quantum "teleportation" - How does Quantum Communication work? - Silicon photonics for quantum computing [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/HPCNB_20260223.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20260223 appeared first on OrionX.net .

- "Ride the Wave, Build the Future: Scientific Computing in an AI World", by Dongarra, Reed, Gannon - Call for National Moonshot Program for future HPC systems - DOE Genesis Mission, 26 Challenges for National Science and Technology - NSF $100M National Quantum and Nanotechnology Infrastructure, NQNI - State of The Quantum Computing Industry - Los Alamos National Laboratory Center for Quantum Comp...

- Sovereign AI: what is it, and does anyone have it? - Bullish on Eviden: Europe’s top system company restores old name - Intel to build server GPUs of its own - MIT Technology Review AI Predictions [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/HPCNB_20260209.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20260209 appeared first on OrionX.net .

- Microsoft Maia 200 for Inference - Nvidia H200 (not H20) for China - Corning-Meta Data Center - Nvidia-CoreWeave AI Deal - Neoclouds’ role in Chip vs Cloud competition [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/HPCNB_20260202.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20260202 appeared first on OrionX.net .