@HPCpodcast with Shahin Khan and Doug Black

- Intel earnings, outlook - Industry-wide supply shortage - Shrinking windows of vendor price quotes - Micron fuels upstate New York tech hub - Chip investments in US regions [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/HPCNB_20260126.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20260126 appeared first on OrionX.net .

Our special guest today is Paul Bloch , President & Co-founder of DDN, the high performance storage and intelligent data platform company. AI runs on massive amounts of fast and reliable data, which makes topics related to storage systems especially important. We discuss a broad range: technical optimizations for AI storage, DPUs and future directions, alignment with streaming, HPC, and accele...

- OpenAI and Cerebras - Taiwan Pledges $250B US investment - TSMC in Arizona - Intel 18A fab and Apple - Inside an AI lab online movie is a 300-million-view hit [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/HPCNB_20260119.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20260119 appeared first on OrionX.net .

- CES 2026 - Nvidia Vera Rubin, in-house co-Design - AMD Helios, MI400 MI500 - TSMC GigaFab Arizona - Intel Panther Lake, 18A Fab - Sandia National Lab Neuromorphic Computing for PDE Math [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/HPCNB_20260112.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20260112 appeared first on OrionX.net .

- China's access to H200 GPUs - Meta acquires Manus - Sandia's new photonics chip [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/HPCNB_20260105.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20260105 appeared first on OrionX.net .

- Nvidia Groq $20B deal - Quantum-HPC hybrid systems and applications - Quantum control, scale, error correction - NCAR Closure [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/HPCNB_20251229.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20251229 appeared first on OrionX.net .

- High Frequency Trading race to save nanoseconds - AI federated learning at DOE labs - Perspective from "AI nobility" who are also "AI doomers" [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/HPCNB_20251222.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20251222 appeared first on OrionX.net .

- Nvidia H200 exports to China - H20, H200, Chinese chips: how do they stack up? - Few fast GPUs vs many slow GPUs - China’s electricity production - Datacenter electricity use in the US - Cell-phone sized AI supercomputer - HPC at the edge - Regulating AI [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/HPCNB_20251215.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20251215 appeared first...

- Marvell in AI, Celestial AI - Co-Packaged Optics, Photonics Interconnects - Lasers for EUV, xLight FEL Lasers, ASML Cymer's LPP Lasers - ASML, Canon, Nikon - Chinese efforts in chip manufacturing: SMEE, SiCarrier - Canon's Nano Imprint Lithography (NIL) - China's Xizhi Electron Beam Lithography - Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST)'s simplified optics in EUV - SDCS Research on Par...

- CRN's Top 10 Semiconductor Companies of 2025 - Google TPU vs. Nvidia - Neoclouds, New Customer Class - DOE Genesis Mission National Initiative [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/HPCNB_20251201.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20251201 appeared first on OrionX.net .

- SC25 quick takes - Thank you St. Louis - Hyperion Research annual SC briefing - Hyperion quantum computing update - New public-private partnership model for DOE's new supercomputers [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/HPCNB_20251124.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20251124 appeared first on OrionX.net .

Join Shahin and Doug as they analyze and discuss the new TOP500 list. They go over HPL, HPL-MxP, HPCG, Green500, geographical distribution, vendor distribution, and other observations. [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/106@HPCpodcast_SP_TOP500_SC25_20251119.mp3"][/audio] The post @HPCpodcast-106: TOP500 at SC25 Conference appeared first on OrionX.net .

- Chip Restrictions in China - Quantum Computing: IBM, Quantinuum, D-Wave, US DOE, UK NMI-Q, Julich - SDSC 40th Anniversary, the original 5 NSF centers - SC25 glance ahead [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/HPCNB_20251117.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20251117 appeared first on OrionX.net .

Dan Nystedt , vice president of research at Tri-Orient Investments , joins us to discuss the Asian tech scene: geopolitical tensions and Taiwan's role, rivalries in chip manufacturing and AI, complexities of the global tech supply chain, and China's rare earth dominance and geopolitical impact. [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/105@HPCpodcast_ID_Dan-Nystedt_Chips-AI-China_2...

- Quantum-accelerated supercomputing - NVQLink, QCS, QEC - Tesla Intel collaboration? - Is the chip era ending? - SC25 offers new options for those impacted by US Government shutdown [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/HPCNB_20251110.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20251110 appeared first on OrionX.net .

- New Exa-Class Supercomputers at DOE labs, HPE, AMD, NVIDIA, Oracle, - AI-RAN, Telecoms+AI, Nvidia+Nokia+partners - Intel+SambaNova ? [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/HPCNB_20251103.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20251103 appeared first on OrionX.net .

- Google Claims Verifiable Quantum Advantage - Quantum Computing Applications and Current Status - US Govt’s Rumored Interest in Equity Stakes in Quantum-Computing Firms - NextSilicon’s New Chip - A Bit of History on Reconfigurable Computing, Data Flow Architecture, Systolic Arrays [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/HPCNB_20251027.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes &#8211...

- How about an AI system that needs 2x the energy NYC uses? - A GPU for every person - HPC-Quantum hybrid systems - Exascale Day 10/18, ExaFlops or ExaWatts? - Seymour Cray 100th birthday - Cray-1 50th anniversary - US Mint's new dollar coin featuring the Cray-1 - Cray-1 masterclass in... branding! [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/HPCNB_20251020.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC...

- AMD OpenAI - AMD Oracle - Intel Clearwater Forest (Xeon 6+) - Intel Fab52 18A looks like is catching up with TSMC - SC25 conference looks like another big one [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/HPCNB_20251013.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20251013 appeared first on OrionX.net .

We had the opportunity to catch up again with Professors Keren Bergman to discuss the latest developments in all things optical: co-packaged photonics/opto-eletcronics/silicon photonics, photonic integrated circuits (PICs), and optical computing. [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/104@HPCpodcast_SP_Keren-Bergman_Silicon-Photonics_20251012.mp3"][/audio] The post @HPCpodcast-1...

- Provably unconditional quantum (information) supremacy - Big clouds balance own vs merchant GPUs - Big unexpected players in HPC/AI infratech [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/HPCNB_20251006.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20251006 appeared first on OrionX.net .

- "World Models” aim for the next big thing in AI - Microsoft’s $3.3B datacenter, with a $4B one to Follow - OpenAI talks central-park-sized datacenter, times 13 - In-Chip ‘Microfluidics’ cooling - Caltech tames 6,100 neutral atom qubits with 12,000 optical tweezers [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/HPCNB_20250929.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20250929 appea...

- Nvidia, Intel, and $5B - Is APU the way to go? - Nvidia, Enfabrica, and $0.9B - Interconnects and Networking key to AI Data Center - PsiQuantum and $1 Billion - Investment continues to grow for Quantum Tech [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/HPCNB_20250922.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20250922 appeared first on OrionX.net .

- Nvidia Rubin CPX - AI Inference, Prefill, Decode, Context - Oracle and OpenAI - Nvidia and OpenAI in the UK - UK MOD Google Cloud - Digital Sovereignty [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/HPCNB_20250915.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20250915 appeared first on OrionX.net .

- Cooler AI: Cutting energy costs with Adiabatic Reversible Computing - More Heat in Chip Wars: OpenAI joins the race to design custom AI silicon - Ironwood Rising: Google’s next-gen chip may debut in Neoclouds - Made in India: Nation unveils its latest fully homegrown chip - HPC User Forum 2025 - Europe’s Exascale: Jülich unveils its 64-bit powerhouse - Quantum Cash Flow: Industry kicks off Septe...