Chips & Data Centers

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

Oct 7, 2026

NX Group and Japan Airlines Start 747 Cargo Route for AI Equipment

NX Group and Japan Airlines have started a weekly Boeing 747 freighter service connecting Los Angeles with major Asian cargo hubs. The route targets demand for servers, semiconductor equipment and other heavy cargo.

Oct 6, 2026

E&R Engineering to Show CPO Laser Tools at SEMI West 2026

E&R Engineering will present laser processing equipment for co packaged optics and advanced chip packaging at SEMI West 2026. Its five axis system drills fiber array units with accuracy of ±0.5 μm.

Oct 6, 2026

Logic Fruit Unveils Reconfigurable BMC Platform for AI Servers

L-Nex combines server management, telemetry, remote access, and security in a reconfigurable FPGA SoC running OpenBMC.

Oct 6, 2026

Hanwha EnergyFluo Named to Fast Company 2026 Tech List

Hanwha's EnergyFluo system was selected for Fast Company's 2026 Next Big Things in Tech list. The software uses agentic AI to manage power generation, storage, cooling and IT loads at data centers.

Oct 6, 2026

Advanced Packaging Market Forecast to Reach $90.11 Billion by 2031

Mordor Intelligence forecasts the advanced packaging market will grow from $57.46 billion in 2026 to $90.11 billion by 2031 as demand rises for AI and high performance computing systems.

Oct 6, 2026

Zetaris Launches Cloud Data Service for AI Agents

Zetaris Cloud lets AI models and agents query distributed enterprise data without moving it into a central repository.

Oct 6, 2026

femtoAI Opens AI Silicon Developer Community

femtoAI has opened its developer community, providing access to its Sparse Processing Unit evaluation kit, compressed models, compiler and Sparsity Studio.

Oct 6, 2026

d-Matrix Corsair Named to Fast Company Technology List

Fast Company included the Corsair AI data center platform in the foundational AI category of its 2026 Next Big Things in Tech list.

Oct 6, 2026

AI Data Centers Push Cable Market Toward $27.29 Billion by 2035

DC Market Insights projects the global data center cable market will grow from $10.65 billion in 2025 to $27.29 billion by 2035 as AI clusters increase demand for fiber connectivity.

Oct 6, 2026

Works360 Launches PLAiPulse for AI PC Evaluations

PLAiPulse shows CPU, GPU, NPU, memory and power use while customers test AI PCs with their own applications. Works360 plans broader commercial availability in 2027.

Oct 6, 2026

Info-Tech Blueprint Maps AI Infrastructure to Workloads

Info-Tech Research Group released a framework that helps enterprises align AI infrastructure with the demands of training, inference, retrieval augmented generation, agents and edge workloads.

Oct 6, 2026

myrtle.ai Sets STAC Records for Gradient Boosted Tree Inference

Myrtle.ai says VOLLO recorded latency below 2 microseconds across three gradient boosted tree models and processed up to 50 million inferences per second.

Oct 6, 2026

Cedar Investment Group Launches With More Than 2 GW of US Data Center Projects

Cedar Investment Group has launched as a data center development firm with more than 2 GW of US projects originated and under development.

Oct 6, 2026

Hammerhead AI and Columbia Study AI Factory Power Control

Hammerhead AI and Columbia University will study reinforcement learning methods for coordinating power, cooling and compute in AI infrastructure.

Oct 6, 2026

DayOne Files for Proposed Nasdaq IPO

The Singapore data center operator filed a Form F-1 for an initial public offering of American Depositary Shares under the ticker DODC.

Oct 5, 2026

Flex Signs $2 Billion Axiom Investment Deal

General Catalyst, Koch Equity Development and other investors will invest $2 billion in Axiom through convertible preferred stock. The agreement values the Flex infrastructure business at $37.5 billion.

Oct 5, 2026

Applied Optoelectronics Completes $600 Million Share Offering

Applied Optoelectronics sold about 5.7 million shares through an at the market offering, generating $588 million after commissions and fees.

Oct 5, 2026

China SCO Platform Unveils AI Agent and Six Digital Projects

The China SCO Digital Economy Cooperation Platform marked its first anniversary with six new projects and a multilingual AI dialogue agent. Its Tianjin pilot zone hosts 70 digital economy projects and a computing pool with 150,000 accelerator cards.

Oct 5, 2026

Huawei Forecasts AI Agents Will Account for Over 90% of Traffic by 2035

Huawei released two reports covering AI infrastructure priorities through 2035 and the expected economic value of AI over the next five years.

Oct 5, 2026

Corgi Insurance Launches Data Center Coverage With GPU Protection

Corgi Insurance has introduced a program covering data center construction, operations, business interruption, infrastructure and GPU residual value.

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