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Today β€” 23 June 2026Wccftech

SpaceX Rented Out Colossus 1 Over Its β€˜Mish-Mash’ Of GPUs, But Now It’s Renting Out Colossus 2 Capacity As Well, Raising Doubts Over Grok AI’s Future

22 June 2026 at 23:17

In a dramatic development that bodes well for its coffers, but not so for the competitiveness of its Grok AI model, SpaceX has just inked a $6.3 billion compute deal to start renting out Colossus 2 GPUs, raising question marks over its strategy to compete with the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic. SpaceX will collect $150 million per month from July onwards by renting out NVIDIA GB300 GPUs at its Colossus 2 data center to Reflection As of May 2026, SpaceX's Colossus 1 data center supported over 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs, divided between H100, H200, and around 30,000 units of the […]

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Yesterday β€” 22 June 2026Wccftech

JEDEC Approves SPHBM4 to Break HBM’s Costly Packaging Bottleneck, Retaining HBM4-level Speeds With Standard Packages

22 June 2026 at 20:25

Micron HBM4 memory chip displayed next to its exposed circuitry on a black background.

SPHBM4 is a new JEDEC standard that aims to solve the high cost and packaging concerns with existing HBM technologies. HBM Demand Keeps on Surging, But The High-Cost Might Make JEDEC's Upcoming SPHBM4 A Better Alternative Almost all AI & HPC accelerators rolling out these days feature some form of HBM memory. The highest-end solutions are leveraging the latest HBM4 designs, and HBM4E is being sampled to the top chipmakers. But as demand continues to rise, and shortages persist in the premium DRAM segment, HBM has become a major bottleneck. The cost is one issue, but price surges are a […]

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NVIDIA Floods Europe With 35 Supercomputers Spanning 23 Countries, Stacking Up To 800 Exaflops Of AI Compute

22 June 2026 at 19:25

A digital rendering shows a map of Europe overlaid on a close-up of a semiconductor chip.

NVIDIA's AI prowess is being deployed across Europe with 35 brand new supercomputers offering 800 Exaflops of compute. Europe Is Building 35 All-NVIDIA AI supercomputers, including Hopper, Blackwell & Rubin Deployments That Scale Up To 800 Exaflops European nations are going into a supercomputer-frenzy, and the main driver behind them is NVIDIA's latest AI ecosystem, delivering up to 800 Exaflops of deployed & announced capacities that will deliver record levels of AI compute. Today, at ISC 2026, NVIDIA and its partners unveiled this multi-year collaboration, which will encompass several deployments across 23 countries. With these supercomputers, Europe is aiming to […]

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Micron Deploys Claude To Accelerate AI Factories While Anthropic Gets Backing To Support Its Multi-Year Growth Trajectory

22 June 2026 at 18:10

A silicon wafer with the logos of Micron and Anthropic, featuring repeated 'AI' text on the chips.

Micron and Anthropic have announced a strategic agreement to scale next-generation AI infrastructure that spans memory and storage for rising compute demands. Micron Signs Supply Agreement With Anthropic While Expanding Claude Adoption Press Release: Micron Technology today announced a strategic agreement with Anthropic that spans memory and storage AI architecture design, supply and demand, enterprise adoption of Claude across Micron, and a strategic investment in Anthropic’s Series H funding round. The agreement directly links the demands of frontier AI models to how infrastructure is designed, supplied, and deployed at scale. AI Memory and Storage Infrastructure Frontier AI models demand uncompromising […]

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Before yesterdayWccftech

Foxconn Pegs NVIDIA Vera Rubin AI Datacenter at $47 Billion Per Gigawatt, as Power Bills Hit $1.3B Yearly

20 June 2026 at 20:45

A presenter on stage is holding a chip in front of large computer servers and a backdrop showing a microarchitecture diagram with '2X' and '1.6X' text.

NVIDIA's Vera Rubin is entering data centers soon, and the rise of Agentic AI also comes with a mammoth rise in costs. NVIDIA Vera Rubin AI Data Centers Will Be Expensive To Build & Will Consume Lots of Power, A Single GigaWatt Installation Could Cost Roughly $50 Billion The Vera Rubin era is upon us. The first systems are already being shipped to major cloud providers who are validating and testing them before bringing them up on scale. With the full volume production already going on, NVIDIA is eyeing an even bigger success than Blackwell. But as these systems are […]

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AMD and Intel arm x86 against the AI gap with ACE, baking matrix-multiply engines & low-precision formats straight into future CPUs

19 June 2026 at 16:05

An Intel and AMD branded processor displays 'x86' on its surface, surrounded by a circuit board.

ACE, the upcoming set of x86 Extensions defined by both AMD & Intel, has seen the latest spec release, focusing on AI acceleration. AMD & Intel Focus on AI Acceleration Through Next-Gen x86 Architectures That Are ACE Compliant Last year,Β Intel and AMD partnered to strengthen the x86 ecosystem through their "x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group" initiative. The plan was to offer a standardized set of features across architectures to make x86 accessible, scalable, and compatible with future requirements. Four key features were announced: FRED, AVX10, ChkTag, and ACE. Now, the latest ACE "AI Compute Extensions" specifications have been published by AMD […]

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Dev Tries Creating GTA 6 Using AI, But Accidentally Builds Wrong City Amidst Chaotic Development And Unreal Engine 5.8 Challenges

19 June 2026 at 15:19

Promotional artwork for 'Grand Theft Auto VI' featuring various characters and scenes, including a helicopter, luxury car, speedboat, and motorbike, surrounding the central game logo.

The wait for GTA 6 has been long and hard, but it is finally coming to an end. With pre-orders opening next week ahead of the game's November 19 release on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, Take-Two Interactive and Rockstar Games are sure to ramp up marketing, and finally show more of a game set to be one of the most successful ever released. However, a solo developer has had enough, and has spent the past 12 or so days trying to build their own version of the game using AI, and the results are impressive and hilarious at […]

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