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Yesterday β€” 28 October 2025Main stream

Nvidia and partners to build seven AI supercomputers for the U.S. gov't with over 100,000 Blackwell GPUs β€”combined performance of 2,200 ExaFLOPS of compute

Nvidia, Oracle, and the U.S. Department of Energy will build seven ExaFLOPS-class AI supercomputers for Argonne National Laboratory β€” including the Oracle-built Equinox and Solstice systems with over 100,000 Blackwell GPUs delivering up to 2,200 FP4 ExaFLOPS β€” to power next-generation AI and scientific research.

Musk says Samsung's Texas fab outclasses TSMC's US-based fabs β€” with AI5 still in development, questions remain over whether Tesla will need advanced tools

Elon Musk's statement that Samsung's Taylor, Texas fab is more advanced than TSMC's Fab 21 in Arizona reflects the newer 3nm-era tools being installed there. However, this advantage has little relevance for Tesla's AI5 processor, which likely relies on SF4A FinFET technology, which gains minimal benefit from those capabilities.

Nvidia unveils Vera Rubin supercomputers for Los Alamos National Laboratory β€” announcement comes on heels of AMD's recent supercomputer wins

Nvidia and HPE will build the Mission and Vision supercomputers for Los Alamos based on the Vera Rubin platform to advance national-security and open-science research using AI simulation and scientific computing.

SK hynix unveils AI NAND strategy, including gargantuan petabyte-class QLC SSDs β€” ultra-fast HBF and 100M IOPS SSDs also in the pipeline

SK hynix introduced its AI NAND lineup β€” AIN D, AIN P, and AIN B β€” at the 2025 Global Summit, outlining a new strategy to deliver high-density, high-performance, and high-bandwidth storage tailored for AI servers and workloads.

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Qualcomm unveils AI200 and AI250 AI inference accelerators β€” Hexagon takes on AMD and Nvidia in the booming data center realm

Qualcomm has unveiled its AI200 and AI250 rack-scale AI inference solutions relying on data center-grade Hexagon NPUs with near-memory computing, micro-tile inferencing, and confidential computing support.

Intel has cut 35,500 jobs in less than two years β€” more than 20,000 let go in in recent months as Lip-Bu Tan continues drastic recovery journey

Intel cut 20,500 jobs under new CEO Lip-Bu Tan β€” totaling 35,500 in two years β€” and reduced R&D spending by over $800 million per quarter as it streamlines operations, cancels lower-priority projects, and concentrates investment on strategic projects.

Intel's pivotal 18A process is making steady progress, but still lags behind β€” yields only set to reach industry standard levels in 2027

Intel said that its 18A process is advancing on schedule with usable yields to begin Panther Lake volume production, but low marings will slow the ramp and capacity expansion until yields reach 'industry standard' levels in 2026 – 2027.

Virtualized Windows 11 test shows Apple's M5 destroying Intel and AMD's best in single-core benchmark β€” Chinese enthusiast pits Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Core i9 14900KS against Apple's latest SoC

A Chinese enthusiast’s benchmark suggests Apple’s new M5 chip delivers record-breaking single-thread performance in CPU-Z, outperforming top AMD and Intel CPUs even while running Windows 11 in virtualization mode. But its multi-thread performance should be better.

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