Chips & Data Centers

Advancements in semiconductor technology, GPU development, and data center infrastructure that power AI computing capabilities.

SWI Group Joins NVIDIA Cloud Partner Program

SWI Group has joined the NVIDIA Cloud Partner program as a Preferred Partner, giving it access to NVIDIA reference architectures and validated configurations for AI infrastructure deployments.

August 31, 2026

Corvex Plans AI Data Center Capacity Expansion

Corvex plans to raise its critical IT power capacity from about 1.5 MW to about 8 MW by the end of 2026, with a possible path to more than 20 MW in 2027.

August 31, 2026

Andreessen Horowitz Raises $1.1 Billion for AI Infrastructure Fund

Andreessen Horowitz has raised $1.1 billion for its Machine Age Fund, which will invest in AI infrastructure such as chips, memory, networking, storage, data centers and robotics.

August 30, 2026

Nvidia Pauses Some AI Cloud Revenue Sharing Deals

Nvidia has paused some deals in an AI cloud financing program that offered credit support to cloud providers in exchange for revenue sharing. The program remains in place and may be revised.

August 30, 2026

Bullish Provides $100M Stablecoin Facility to USD.AI for GPU Financing

Bullish has provided a $100 million stablecoin liquidity facility to USD.AI for GPU financing. The facility will support lending against high performance computing assets.

August 29, 2026

Blue Owl Leads $2.4 Billion GPU Financing for IREN

Blue Owl managed funds led a $2.4 billion financing package for IREN to buy NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs for its Mackenzie data center campus in British Columbia.

August 29, 2026

SuperX Gets Ezisight Order for 128 B300 AI Server Clusters in Australia

SuperX AI Technology Limited said its subsidiary SuperX Microinference received an initial purchase order from Ezisight for 128 B300 AI server clusters, scheduled for delivery in the fourth quarter of 2026.

August 28, 2026

SK Telecom to Create SK Horizon for AI Data Centers

SK Telecom plans to spin SK Horizon out of SK Broadband and receive KRW 3.08 trillion from KKR and the IMM Investment Stonebridge consortium to expand AI data center infrastructure in Korea.

August 27, 2026

Systemair Wins SEK 60 Million Data Centre Cooling Order in Finland

Systemair has received an order worth about SEK 60 million for air based cooling equipment for a new data centre in Finland.

August 27, 2026

MSI Starts Shipping XpertStation WS300 AI Supercomputer

MSI has started shipping the XpertStation WS300, a desktop AI supercomputer based on NVIDIA DGX Station architecture and the NVIDIA GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra Desktop Superchip.

August 27, 2026

AMD Adds UCIe Support to Select Versal Adaptive SoCs

AMD will add native UCIe 1.1 support to select Versal RF Series adaptive SoCs, with production chiplets expected in the fourth quarter of 2027.

August 27, 2026

Georgia Power Gets Approval for OpenAI Power Contract in Georgia

Georgia Power's contract to serve OpenAI's Effingham County project has been approved by Georgia regulators. The deal covers 3,200 megawatts of new demand, with OpenAI set to pay infrastructure costs and provide flexible demand response.

August 27, 2026

Achronix Releases JESD204C IP Core for Speedster7t FPGAs

Achronix Semiconductor Corporation has released a JESD204C IP core for its Speedster7t FPGA family. The core supports up to 32 Gbps per lane and is designed to connect high speed ADCs and DACs to programmable logic.

August 26, 2026

Emerald AI Raises $150 Million for AI Data Center Power Software

Emerald AI raised $150 million in Series A funding at a $1.05 billion valuation to expand software that adjusts AI data center power use based on grid conditions.

August 26, 2026

Teledyne LeCroy Adds Ultra Ethernet Validation Tools for AI Networks

Teledyne LeCroy expanded Ultra Ethernet validation support across its Xena traffic generators and SierraNet protocol analyzer for AI and HPC network testing.

August 25, 2026

Daloopa Adds MCP Connector for Gemini Enterprise for Financial Services

Daloopa announced a new MCP connector built on Google Cloud's Gemini Enterprise for Financial Services. It brings structured financial data into Gemini Enterprise workflows for investment research and analysis.

August 25, 2026

RelativityOne Adds Gemini Enterprise for Legal Integration

RelativityOne now integrates with Google Cloud's Gemini Enterprise for Legal through the Model Context Protocol, adding natural language controls for legal workflow administration.

August 25, 2026

SCX.ai and DDN Partner on Australian Sovereign AI Inference Cloud

SCX.ai and DDN have partnered to expand Australia's sovereign AI inferencing cloud, combining SCX.ai infrastructure with DDN's Infinia data platform.

August 25, 2026

Infineon Acquires C2i Semiconductors for AI Data Center Power Management

Infineon Technologies AG has agreed to acquire Bangalore based C2i Semiconductors, adding digital power management technology for AI data center applications.

August 24, 2026

Luxor Energy and Bentaus Curtail AI GPU for ERCOT 4CP Signal

Luxor Energy and Bentaus reduced a live AI inference GPU's power draw to 25% in under 500 milliseconds using the Ziani platform, without disrupting workloads.

August 24, 2026

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