ABB and BCG Report Backs Hybrid AC/DC Power for AI Data Centers
A report from ABB and Boston Consulting Group says AI computing, electrification and renewable energy are increasing demand for direct current power systems.
Advancements in semiconductor technology, GPU development, and data center infrastructure that power AI computing capabilities.
A report from ABB and Boston Consulting Group says AI computing, electrification and renewable energy are increasing demand for direct current power systems.
Samsung will deploy Mistral AI models across its semiconductor operations and led the French AI company's Series D funding round.
Five Galaxy Digital data center projects in Texas received ERCOT classifications covering about 4.2 GW of gross power capacity.
Qualcomm and Amazon will collaborate across multiple product generations to develop custom silicon for AI data centers, initially focused on inference.
The Accenture Gemini Enterprise Business Group will help customers plan, build, and expand AI applications using Google's enterprise platform.
The SP7000G scans a 510 mm by 515 mm glass substrate in under 20 minutes and detects internal microcracks after metallization and ABF build up.
AI related component shortages pushed campus switch prices higher in the second quarter of 2026. Average selling prices rose 19%, driving market revenue growth despite availability constraints.
Karmada has graduated from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation after completing its security, governance, and project maturity requirements. Version 1.19 adds scheduling features for distributed AI training across multiple Kubernetes clusters.
AidenAI launches AiDAP for application modernization and migration, alongside Aerie for Azure cloud cost optimization and FinOps.
Quantinuum finalized a $100 million federal funding agreement to expand research and manufacturing for trapped ion quantum computing in the United States.
AWS will serve as ADP's strategic cloud provider as the companies expand their work on AI agents, application migration, and workforce data services.
Alif Semiconductor introduced the SK-B1 and SK-E1C StartKit evaluation boards for its Balletto and Ensemble microcontrollers. Each board combines an Arm Cortex-M55 CPU with an Ethos-U55 neural processing unit for local AI inference.
The London company will expand its platform for managing renewable energy and data centre transactions.
A CNCF and SlashData report estimates that China has 1.75 million cloud native developers, including about 400,000 working on AI.
SEMIFIVE has started mass production of HyperAccel's Bertha AI inference accelerator using Samsung Foundry's 4nm process.
iPronics raised $125 million in Series B funding to expand production and deployment of its programmable optical networking platform for AI data centers.
Jensen Huang says OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra represents the arrival of artificial general intelligence. He also says the model trained on more than 100,000 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell NVLink72 systems.
Anthropic signed compute agreements valued at about $517 billion over the past 11 months, covering 14.8 gigawatts of capacity.
Hyosung Heavy Industries plans to pursue US AI and data center power projects with a 22.9kV solid state transformer that can connect directly to urban distribution networks.
BYD has expanded its semiconductor operations from power control devices to processors for smart driving systems. Its Xuanji A3 chip has entered scaled production using a 4 nm automotive process.