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April 29, 2026.
60 quantum research items collected on 2026-04-29; hardware, control, and industry signals routed.
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60 quantum research items collected on 2026-04-29; hardware, control, and industry signals routed.Hardware and Error Correction
Testing a continuous-variable Bell-like inequality with a hybrid-encoded system
Continuous-variable quantum systems are promising candidates for quantum computing and quantum information processing. It is widely known that quadrature measurements on Gaussian continuous-variable systems can be described by a noncontextual hidden-variable model and cannot violate a Bell inequality. Here, we demonstrate that the observation fails when sequential measuremen...
QCalEval: Benchmarking Vision-Language Models for Quantum Calibration Plot Understanding
Quantum computing calibration depends on interpreting experimental data, and calibration plots provide the most universal human-readable representation for this task, yet no systematic evaluation exists of how well vision-language models (VLMs) interpret them. We introduce QCalEval, the first VLM benchmark for quantum calibration plots: 243 samples across 87 scenario types f...
There is widespread interest in many-body quantum systems that exhibit limit-cycle or time-crystalline behaviour. An ideal quantum limit cycle would be realized using fully coherent driving (to minimize noise) and also have a continuous internal symmetry (to ensure generation of monochromatic radiation). While these two requirements may seem incompatible, we introduce in thi...
MCMit: Mid-Circuit Measurement Error Mitigation
Distributed Quantum Computing (DQC) and Quantum Error Correction (QEC) rely on dynamic circuits that include Mid-Circuit Measurements (MCMs) and classical feedback. These operations present a major bottleneck: MCMs suffer from high error rates that lead to real-time branching errors, while MCM and classical feedback latencies amplify decoherence errors. Current hardware cont...
As emerging quantum architectures evolve into heterogeneous networks combining different physical substrates, such as qubits for logic and higher-dimensional qudits for robust communication, the traditional scalar metrics of quantum error correction become insufficient. To address this, we introduce a mathematical framework based on dimension multisets to characterize quantu...
Quantum Error Correction Exploiting Quantum Spatial Distribution and Gauge Symmetry
We explore what the integrated use of quantum spatial distribution (QSD), or more specifically, superposition of both spin and position states of particles, and gauge symmetry (GS) within stabilizer formalism provides for quantum error correction. The exploration employs $3+2$ particles on nested squares proposed in the companion letter (arXiv:2504.07941), where three of the...
Continuous Reset-Induced Phase Transition in Measurement-Free Random Quantum Circuits
We study a random unitary quantum circuit with only reset channels, which has high feasibility for real quantum devices. In particular, we investigate the many-body statistical physics properties, "reset-induced" entanglement phase transitions comparing the classical statistical picture in the large "$d$" limit of qudits. In the property of the reset-induced phase transition...
Defect-Adaptive Lattice Surgery on Irregular Boundary Surface-Code Patches
Defect-adaptive surface-code methods have substantially advanced the construction of valid logical patches on imperfect hardware, but fault-tolerant computation also requires executable logical oper ations on the resulting irregular geometries. We formulate the seam-boundary defect problem: how to perform a lattice-surgery merge when the intended seam intersects deformed bou...
Control and Quantum-AI Integration
A Quantum Spectral Framework for Solving PDEs
Partial differential equations (PDEs) are fundamental across numerous scientific fields. As these problems scale to high dimensions, classical numerical schemes introduce severe computational bottlenecks, known as the curse of dimensionality. Attempts to solve this problem typically rely on either classical sparsity and low-rank decompositions, or neural network surrogate mo...
Quantum-Inspired Robust and Scalable SAR Object Classification
SAR image classification naturally has to deal with huge noise and a high dynamic range particularly requiring robust classification models. Additionally, the deployment of these models on edge devices, such as drones and military aircraft, requires a careful balance between model size and classification accuracy. This study explores the potential of tensor networks to meet...
We find the ground-state energy of the Ising model using the Cascaded Variational Quantum Eigensolver (CVQE) algorithm with the Guided-Sampling Ansatz (GSA) using up to 63 qubits on a quantum computer. We study a heavy-hex lattice to match the qubit architecture, allowing us to perform calculations in the quantum utility regime. We study both a homogeneous and random-couplin...
Quantum memory and scrambling from the perspective of a classical neural network
Entropic uncertainty relations are universal quantifiers of fundamental uncertainties of quantum measurements and are widely discussed in the quantum metrology literature. Quantum memory is a phenomenon related to the specific type of quantum correlations that allows for reducing fundamental uncertainties of quantum measurements. In the present work, the modified concept of...
Efficient Complex-Valued State Preparation on Bucket Brigade QRAM
Efficient quantum state preparation is a critical component in quantum algorithms that process large classical data, and it is fundamental to realizing quantum advantage in domains such as machine learning, quantum linear algebra, and quantum finance. Building on the framework of~\cite{berti2025efficient}, which integrates Bucket Brigade QRAM (BBQRAM) with a segment tree to...
Local tensor-train surrogates for quantum learning models
A key bottleneck in quantum machine learning is the computational cost of repeated quantum circuit evaluations during the inference phase. To address this, we present a framework for constructing fast, cheap, provably accurate classical tensor-train surrogates of fully trained quantum machine learning models within local patches of their input data space. The approach combin...
One Coordinate at a Time: Convergence Guarantees for Rotosolve in Variational Quantum Algorithms
In this paper, we resolve an open question in the field of optimization algorithms for training parametrized quantum circuits: Does the popular Rotosolve algorithm converge? Until now, interpolation-based coordinate descent methods such as Rotosolve have mostly been treated as heuristics, lacking any formal convergence guarantees. We rigorously analyze Rotosolve, and show th...
Optimizing ground state preparation protocols with autoresearch
Artificial intelligent language-model based coding agents have significantly changed the way we interact with computers in our day-to-day, as it is common to use them to create, improve, and run programming scripts only using natural language. Agent code updates can be better guided when such programs can be executed and scored automatically rather than judged by human prefe...
Commercial and Industry Context
Nanoscale Sensing of Solid-State Samples with High Frequency Resolution
To meet the growing demand for nanoscale surface analysis, nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers offer a high-sensitivity alternative by leveraging their ability to operate in immediate proximity to the sample. In this work, we propose a quantum control protocol designed to overcome the inherent challenges of solid-state environments, specifically by mitigating anisotropy and strong...
Simon's Algorithm for the Even-Mansour Cipher on Quantum Hardware
Simon's algorithm is a polynomial period-finding algorithm that has been used to exploit the algebraic structure of specific symmetric ciphers, showing that exponential speedups in their cryptanalysis are theoretically possible. While the theoretical framework for an attack using Simon's algorithm on the Even-Mansour cipher is well-established, practical implementations on n...
Ember: An Extensible Benchmark Suite for Quantum Annealing Embedding Algorithms
Minor embedding is a required compilation step for quantum annealing, mapping logical problem graphs onto sparse hardware topologies. Despite its central role in determining solution quality, no standardized benchmark exists for comparing embedding algorithms: prior studies use incompatible graph libraries, inconsistent metrics, and non-reproducible experimental setups, maki...
Florida’s First Quantum-Safe Corridor – LambdaRail and the New Shape of the State’s Quantum Push
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Unrouted Items
Generation of highly non-classical quantum states of light is essential for optical quantum information processing and quantum metrology. Given the lack of sufficiently strong nonlinear interactions between optical fields, the commonly employed optical quantum-state preparation schemes are conditional, based on nonlinearity induced by heralding photon number measurement on a...
Optimized thermal control of a dual-wavelength-resonant nonlinear cavity
Optical resonator-enhanced nonlinear interactions are of great importance for the efficient generation of continuous-wave second harmonic generation, optical parametric oscillation, frequency mixing, and the generation of squeezed light. In order to maximize these interactions within the intra-cavity nonlinear material, high intensities, optimal phase matching, and simultane...
Minimum Toffoli depth for the multi-controlled Toffoli gate via teleportation
The decomposition of complex quantum operations into experimentally feasible gate sets has been a central challenge since the early development of quantum computing. The multi-controlled Toffoli (MCT) gate is a key example, with applications across a wide range of quantum algorithms, whose decomposition into smaller gates, however, typically leads to deep circuits. In this w...
Quantum channels preserving sigma-additivity and Ulam measurable cardinals
This paper investigates the interplay between the properties of quantum states on the Hilbert space \(\ell_2(κ)\) and the set-theoretic nature of the cardinal $κ$. We focus on the existence of singular $σ$-additive states~ -- functionals whose induced measures are $σ$-additive yet vanish on singletons. While the existence of such states is known to be equivalent to the Ulam...
A unified quantum random walk model for internal crystal effects in dynamical diffraction
The theory of dynamical diffraction (DD) in perfect crystals is the backbone of high-precision neutron and X-ray diffraction experiments, enabling accurate determination of crystal structure factors and the realization of perfect crystal interferometers. In practice, however, real crystals exhibit deformations and imperfections, including surface roughness, defects, temperat...
Proof of the Error Scaling for Universally Robust Dynamical Decoupling Sequences
Universally robust dynamical decoupling (UR$n$) sequences were proposed to compensate pulse imperfections arising from arbitrary experimental parameters while achieving high-order error suppression with only a linear increase in the number of pulses. Although their performance was supported by analytical arguments, numerical simulations, and experiments, a complete mathemati...
Pseudo-Hermiticity of the Nakajima-Zwanzig Projected Liouvillian in the Jaynes-Cummings Model
The Nakajima-Zwanzig projected Liouvillian QLQ, the generator of the exact memory kernel in open quantum dynamics, is manifestly non-Hermitian yet has been reported to possess a purely real spectrum in the Jaynes-Cummings model -- an anomaly unexplained since observation. We resolve this anomaly by showing that QLQ is pseudo-Hermitian in the Mostafazadeh sense: a positive-de...
Pulse Quality Optimisation in Quantum Optimal Control
Quantum optimal control methods are widely used to design experimental control pulses such as laser amplitudes, phases, or detunings, that implement a target unitary evolution. In practice, what makes a pulse "good" depends not only on its fidelity, but also on the experimental setting and the relevant hardware constraints. Here, we introduce geometric quantum control with k...
The Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) follows a single, fixed evolution path, overlooking the potential computational advantage of coherently superposing multiple trajectories. Here we overcome this limitation with a hybrid quantum walk (HQW) ansatz that super poses multiple Hamiltonian-driven paths coherently within each circuit layer via a dynamical coin op...
Two-dimensional spectroscopy (2DS) is a powerful ultrafast technique for probing electronic and vibrational dynamics in complex microscopic systems. Extracting detailed information on system dynamics and system-bath interactions from 2DS experiments requires precise theoretical simulations for comparison, which motivates the development of numerically-exact and computational...
Quantum sensing-enabled deuterium NMR spectroscopy with nanoscale sensitivity at low magnetic fields
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy provides unparalleled access to molecular structure and dynamics but is traditionally limited by weak signal strength, requiring large sample volumes and high magnetic fields. Here, we demonstrate nanoscale deuterium (2H) NMR spectroscopy using nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond, reproducing the characteristic quadrupolar p...
Polynomial Resource Classification of Quantum Circuit Familes via Classical Shadows
We compare four polynomial-resource measurement strategies, (I) $Z$-basis-only, (II) nearest-neighbor $ZZ$ (NN), (III) multi-basis ($Z$, $X$, $Y$), and (IV) classical shadows, for classifying three quantum circuit families: IQP, Clifford, and Clifford$+T$. We find $Z$-only measurements outperform multi-basis and classical shadows across all qubit counts and all four classifi...
Universal Characterization of Classical Qubit Noise
We propose a general method to fully characterize a classical stochastic noise process causing qubit dephasing through repetitive Ramsey interferometry measurements (RIMs) on the qubit. Compared to filter-function-based spectroscopy, our method does not require complicated dynamical decoupling pulses and can directly detect arbitrary-order correlation functions of such noise...
The security of quantum key distribution (QKD) systems relies on the physical integrity of their components. While laser-damage attacks (LDAs) using high-power continuous-wave (cw) lasers have been well studied, the threat posed by pulsed lasers at alternative wavelengths remains underestimated. Here, we experimentally investigated the stability of four types of fiber-optic...
Near-identical photons from distant quantum dot-cavity devices
Scalable optical quantum technologies require interference between large numbers of indistinguishable single-photons emitted by independent sources. Semiconductor quantum dots are known to be excellent on-demand sources of single-photons. They show record efficiency when inserted into optical cavities to control their spontaneous emission and generate trains of near identica...
We identify a missing local-refinement stage in the cotengra tensor-network contraction pipeline and show that its impact grows monotonically with bond dimension on the \emph{connectivity graph} of Sycamore-like topologies. Appending a nearest-neighbor interchange (NNI) search to the \cotengra{} output at matched 8-s wallclock yields a median \emph{predicted} cost-model gap...
Quantum Optimization Methods for the Generalized Traveling Salesman Problem
This paper studies quantum optimization baselines for the Generalized Traveling Salesman Problem (GTSP), a clustered routing problem that naturally models variant selection and sequencing problems under discrete alternatives. We propose a novel GTSP QUBO formulation focused on maintaining feasible solutions for quantum annealing, as well as a hardware-executable gate-based p...
Sector-dominant graph-local drivers for path-window barrier Hamiltonians on the Boolean hypercube
We study finite-size adiabatic state preparation on Boolean hypercubes using graph-local drivers built from sector/path coordinates related to monotone Gray-code representatives. The construction is not presented as a new all-$n$ Gray-code existence theorem; rather, it provides finite representatives, explicitly checked through the cases used in the numerical experiments, fo...
Deterministic Realization of Classical Dissipation on Quantum Computers
Lattice Boltzmann (LB) on quantum devices must reconcile unitary gate evolution with the dissipative \emph{collision} step. In the multiple-relaxation-time (MRT) class, we work in the common setting of \emph{modewise diagonal} moment relaxation, $δm_r'=λ_r\,δm_r$ with $λ_r\in[-1,1]$ (overrelaxation if $λ_r<0$). Embedding that contraction in a unitary by block encoding or a l...
Sign Embedding Quantum Algorithms for Matrix Equations and Matrix Functions
We develop a systematic sign-embedding framework of operator-output quantum algorithms for matrix equations and matrix functions. Differing from the contour-integral treatment, we start with the matrix-sign embedding route: an augmented matrix $M$ whose half-plane matrix sign compresses the target operator either as a block of $\text{sign}(M)$ or, in projector form, through...
Graph-Conditioned Meta-Optimizer for QAOA Parameter Generation on Multiple Problem Classes
We study parameter transferability for the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) across multiple combinatorial optimization problem classes from a parameter generation perspective. Specifically, a meta-optimizer is trained on one problem class and deployed on another during test time. Prior work employs a Long Short-Term Memory network to emulate QAOA optimizatio...
Anomalous Mixed-State Floquet Topology in One-Dimensional Open Quantum Systems
We investigate the non-equilibrium topology of a periodically driven, dissipative Su-Schrieffer-Heeger chain using the ensemble geometric phase (EGP) $φ_{\mathrm{EGP}}$-a generalisation of the Zak phase to open quantum systems. In contrast to earlier work, we use Floquet-Born-Markov theory to describe the coupling to thermal reservoirs microscopically. We show that the stead...
Fermilab Expands Quantum Workforce Pipeline with Student Program
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CQE Releases Unified Strategy to Scale Midwest Quantum Workforce
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Haiqu and HSBC Demonstrate Scalable Quantum Encoding for Financial Models
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QuantumDiamonds Deploys Failure Analysis Technology at Leading Taiwan Semiconductor Test House
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Why 2026 Matters for Quantum Security
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New Chip Can Protect Wireless Biomedical Devices From Quantum Attacks
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QDNL Participations Rebrands to Ground State Ventures as Fund Hits $88 Million, Exceeds Target
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Chips
44 chip stack items collected on 2026-04-29; memory, packaging, compute, and foundry signals routed.Compute Accelerators
NVIDIA RTX PRO Servers With Blackwell Coming to World’s Most Popular Enterprise Systems
NVIDIA today announced that the NVIDIA RTX PRO™ 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPU is coming to the world’s most popular enterprise servers, speeding the shift from traditional CPU systems to accelerated computing platforms.
NVIDIA Builds World’s First Industrial AI Cloud to Advance European Manufacturing
NVIDIA today announced it is building the world’s first industrial AI cloud for European manufacturers. This Germany-based AI factory will feature 10,000 GPUs, including through NVIDIA DGX™ B200 systems and NVIDIA RTX PRO™ Servers, and enable Europe’s industrial leaders to accelerate every manufacturing application, from design, engineering and simulation to factory digital...
NVIDIA DGX Cloud Lepton Connects Europe’s Developers to Global NVIDIA Compute Ecosystem
NVIDIA today announced the expansion of NVIDIA DGX Cloud Lepton™ — an AI platform featuring a global compute marketplace that connects developers building agentic and physical AI applications — with GPUs now available from a growing network of cloud providers.
Europe Builds AI Infrastructure With NVIDIA to Fuel Region’s Next Industrial Transformation
NVIDIA today announced it is working with European nations, and technology and industry leaders, to build NVIDIA Blackwell AI infrastructure that will strengthen digital sovereignty, support economic growth and position the continent as a leader in the AI industrial revolution.
NVIDIA Announces DGX Cloud Lepton to Connect Developers to NVIDIA’s Global Compute Ecosystem
NVIDIA today announced NVIDIA DGX Cloud Lepton™ — an AI platform with a compute marketplace that connects the world’s developers building agentic and physical AI applications with tens of thousands of GPUs, available from a global network of cloud providers.
Foxconn Builds AI Factory in Partnership With Taiwan and NVIDIA
NVIDIA and Foxconn Hon Hai Technology Group today announced they are deepening their longstanding partnership and are working with the Taiwan government to build an AI factory supercomputer that will deliver state-of-the-art NVIDIA Blackwell infrastructure to researchers, startups and industries.
NVIDIA Blackwell GeForce RTX Arrives for Every Gamer, Starting at $299
NVIDIA today announced the NVIDIA GeForce RTX™ 5060 family of GPUs, including two graphics cards that deliver neural rendering and NVIDIA Blackwell architecture innovations for every gamer — starting at just $299.
Oracle and NVIDIA Collaborate to Help Enterprises Accelerate Agentic AI Inference
Oracle and NVIDIA today announced a first-of-its-kind integration between NVIDIA accelerated computing and inference software with Oracle’s AI infrastructure, and generative AI services, to help organizations globally speed creation of agentic AI applications.
Memory and Advanced Packaging
Building An AI Chip: Silicon Design And Advanced Packaging
<p>The second key stage of AI chip design: silicon design and packaging.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://semiengineering.com/building-an-ai-chip-silicon-design-and-advanced-packaging/">Building An AI Chip: Silicon Design And Advanced Packaging</a> appeared first on <a href="https://semiengineering.com">Semiconductor Engineering</a>.</p>
Rethinking ESD Protection for System-On-Integrated Chiplets (UC Riverside)
<p>A new technical paper, “In-SoIC ESD Protection for Chiplet-Based 3D Microsystems: Future Research Directions,” was published by researchers at the University of California, Riverside. Abstract “Heterogeneous integration opens a pathway to three-dimensional chiplet-based microsystem chips. Electrostatic discharge reliability is a major challenge to future...
Alumina Nanowires Improve Thermal Management in Advanced Packaging (Georgia Tech et al.)
<p>A new technical paper, “Epoxy Composites Reinforced with Long Al2O3 Nanowires for Enhanced Thermal Management in Advanced Semiconductor Packaging,” was published by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and National Cheng Kung University. Abstract “The rapid increase in heat flux in advanced 2.5D/3D semiconductor packaging places stringent d...
Mapping and Routing Fault-Tolerant Quantum Circuits Onto Chiplet Architectures (TU Munich)
<p>A new technical paper, “Chipmunq: A Fault-Tolerant Compiler for Chiplet Quantum Architectures,” was published by researchers at the Technical University of Munich. Abstract “As quantum computing advances toward fault-tolerance through quantum error correction, modular chiplet architectures have emerged to provide the massive qubit counts required while o...
Custom Silicon and Networking
How Long Will CAN Stick Around As Rival Networks Speed Up?
<p>New in-vehicle networking technology will likely take over as more AI is added, but in the near term designers face challenges integrating new with old.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://semiengineering.com/how-long-will-can-stick-around-as-rival-networks-speed-up/">How Long Will CAN Stick Around As Rival Networks Speed Up?</a> appeared first on <a href="https://semiengine...
Unrouted Items
NVIDIA and Global Telecom Leaders Commit to Build 6G on Open and Secure AI-Native Platforms
NVIDIA today announced a commitment — together with Booz Allen, BT Group, Cisco, Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson, MITRE, Nokia, OCUDU Ecosystem Foundation, ODC, SK Telecom, SoftBank Corp. and T-Mobile — to build the world’s next generation of wireless networks on AI-native, open, secure and trustworthy platforms.
NVIDIA today announced a collaboration with Palantir Technologies Inc. to build a first-of-its-kind integrated technology stack for operational AI — including analytics capabilities, reference workflows, automation features and customizable, specialized AI agents — to accelerate and optimize complex enterprise and government systems.
NVIDIA Partners With Novo Nordisk and DCAI to Advance Drug Discovery
NVIDIA today announced a collaboration with Novo Nordisk to accelerate drug discovery efforts through innovative AI use cases. The work supports Novo Nordisk’s agreement with DCAI to use the Gefion sovereign AI supercomputer.
Siemens and NVIDIA Expand Partnership to Accelerate AI Capabilities in Manufacturing
Siemens and NVIDIA announced today an expansion of their partnership to accelerate the next era of industrial AI and digitalization and enable the factory of the future.
NVIDIA Partners With Europe Model Builders and Cloud Providers to Accelerate Region’s Leap Into AI
NVIDIA GTC Paris at VivaTech—NVIDIA today announced that it is teaming with model builders and cloud providers across Europe and the Middle East to optimize sovereign large language models...
NVIDIA Powers Europe’s Fastest Supercomputer
NVIDIA today announced that the JUPITER supercomputer, powered by the NVIDIA Grace Hopper™ platform, is the fastest in Europe — delivering a more than 2x speedup for high-performance computing and AI workloads compared with the next-fastest system.
NVIDIA RTX PRO Servers Speed Trillion-Dollar Enterprise IT Industry Transition to AI Factories
NVIDIA today announced it is speeding the trillion-dollar IT infrastructure transition to enterprise AI factories with NVIDIA RTX PRO™ Servers and a new NVIDIA Enterprise AI Factory validated design for building data centers that deliver universal acceleration for AI, design, engineering and business applications.
NVIDIA Launches AI-First DGX Personal Computing Systems With Global Computer Makers
NVIDIA today announced that Taiwan’s leading system manufacturers are set to build NVIDIA DGX Spark and DGX Station™ systems.
NVIDIA and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) today announced partnerships to transform the country into a global powerhouse in AI, cloud and enterprise computing, digital twins and robotics.
HUMAIN and NVIDIA Announce Strategic Partnership to Build AI Factories of the Future in Saudi Arabia
HUMAIN, the new full AI value chain subsidiary of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, today announced a landmark strategic partnership with NVIDIA, the world leader in AI computing infrastructure, to drive the next wave of artificial intelligence development.
NVIDIA today announced a collaboration with GE HealthCare to advance innovation in autonomous imaging, focused on developing autonomous X-ray technologies and ultrasound applications.
NVIDIA, Alphabet and Google Collaborate on the Future of Agentic and Physical AI
Joint Initiatives Span Infrastructure and Open Model Optimizations, Offer Major Strides in Robotics, Drug Discovery and MoreSAN JOSE, Calif., March 18, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Building on ...
NVIDIA Introduces HGX-2, Fusing HPC and AI Computing into Unified Architecture
GTC Taiwan—NVIDIA today introduced NVIDIA HGX-2, the first unified computing platform for both artificial intelligence and high performance computing.
How Architecture Firm WBCM Is Moving to 100% Virtualization
<p>Small IT teams often have to play big to keep up with their firm’s global operations. That’s the case at Whitney Bailey Cox & Magnani, LLC (WBCM), an architecture, engineering and construction services group that designs and builds projects for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the NFL’s Baltimore Ravens, Lockheed Martin, the Ritz-Carlton and […]</p> <p>The post...
Rendering Made Easy: Iray Server Makes Light Work of Complex Designs
<p>Ever wish you could harness the power of an entire network of workstations to make light work of your most complex designs? Now you can, with Iray Server, our distributed rendering software. Available for a free 90-day trial starting today, Iray Server coordinates a network of machines as a “cluster” to speed the creation of… <a href="http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/20...
More Users, Better Performance: NVIDIA GRID Boosts Blast Extreme in VMware Horizon
<p>What IT department wouldn’t want to be able to do more with their current infrastructure? With NVIDIA GRID, they can. NVIDIA GRID acceleration of Blast Extreme — a new protocol for optimizing the mobile cloud — is now supported in VMware Horizon 7. What’s that mean for IT managers? Reduced latency. Improved performance. And up… <a href="http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/...
How Virtual Reality Is Making the Leap into Everyday Life
<p>Headlines about virtual reality often focus on how it’s upending the world of gaming. But VR is also revolutionizing fields across everyday life — areas like medicine, architecture, education, product design and retailing. A great example is Audi’s new virtual showroom where you can explore each of their models in vivid detail through VR. The German… <a href="http:/...
AMD Gives Consumers and Businesses More AI PC Options with Expanded Ryzen™ AI 400 Series Portfolio
AMD and TCS to bring state-of-the-art ‘Helios’ rack-scale AI architecture to India
TCS and AMD Announce Strategic Collaboration to Drive AI Adoption at Scale
From Silos to Systems, from Data to Insight
<p>Transform fragmented, siloed data into a governed, connected, and reusable organizational knowledge base.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://semiengineering.com/from-silos-to-systems-from-data-to-insight/">From Silos to Systems, from Data to Insight</a> appeared first on <a href="https://semiengineering.com">Semiconductor Engineering</a>.</p>
Leveraging Agentic AI Techniques to Improve Formal Verification (Infineon, et al.)
<p>A new technical paper, “Agentic AI-based Coverage Closure for Formal Verification,” was published by researchers at Infineon and the NIT Jalandhar. Abstract “Coverage closure is a critical requirement in Integrated Chip (IC) development process and key metric for verification sign-off. However, traditional exhaustive approaches often fail to achieve full...
Power
21 power layer items collected on 2026-04-29; data center load, grid, generation, and cooling signals routed.Data Center Power Demand
Small modular reactors and microreactors under development in the United States
Electric utilities in the United States currently operate about 98 gigawatts (GW) of nuclear generating capacity, but very little nuclear capacity has been built in the last few decades. High capital costs and lengthy licensing and approval processes have limited the expansion of nuclear power. However, several companies are developing new small modular reactor (SMR) designs...
U.S. coal-fired generating capacity retired in 2025 was the least in 15 years
During 2025, the U.S. electric power sector retired 2.6 gigawatts (GW) of coal-fired generating capacity at four power plants, the least since 2010. At the beginning of 2025, coal plant operators had planned to retire 8.5 GW of capacity; however, 4.8 GW of planned retirements were delayed to a future year, and the operators of two coal plants (1.1 GW) cancelled plans to reti...
Rooftop solar photovoltaic systems account for 20% of Puerto Rico's capacity mix
Rooftop solar generating capacity in Puerto Rico totaled 1,456 megawatts (MW) at the end of 2025, 20% of the overall capacity mix. Rooftop solar capacity has increased faster than other sources over the past decade. Between 2016 and 2025 rooftop solar installations accounted for 81% of the new generating capacity in Puerto Rico, according to data from our Electric Power Mont...
Wind and solar generated a record 17% of U.S. electricity in 2025
Over the past 20 years, electricity from wind power and utility-scale solar power has increased to 17% of generation in the United States compared to less than 1% in 2005. In 2025, net generation of wind and solar together accounted for 760,000 gigawatthours (GWh) of electricity, 88,000 GWh more than in 2024, according to data from our Electric Power Monthly. We classify a p...
Fossil generation could rise with faster-than-expected growth in data center power demand
Electricity demand has been rising steadily since 2020 after more than a decade of little change. Between 2020 and 2025, U.S. electricity demand, as measured by net energy for load, grew about 1.7% annually compared with 0.1% annual growth between 2005 and 2019. Electricity use by data centers is driving the electricity demand growth. Continued development of these large com...
Grid and Generation
Hydropower generation expected to recover despite snow drought in the West
In our April Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), we expect U.S. hydropower generation will increase by 5% in 2026 but remain 1.8% below the 10-year average following snow drought conditions in some states. Hydropower generation in 2025 increased to 245 billion kilowatthours (BkWh), about 4 BkWh more than the record-low generation year 2024. In 2026, we expect generation will b...
U.S. electricity generation in 2025 hit a record, again
U.S. electricity net generation reached a record in 2025 based on data from our Electricity Data Browser. In 2025, the United States generated 4.43 terawatthours (TWh) of electricity, up 2.8% from 2024 generation, which previously had been the highest annual total in our Monthly Energy Review Data Browser dataset dating back to 1949.
Nuclear reactor restart in Japan will likely displace natural gas electricity generation
On February 9, 2026, Japan restarted Unit 6 of its largest nuclear power plant, the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station in Niigata Prefecture, which was shut down following the 2011 Fukushima tsunami and nuclear accident. As the reactor returns to full operations, the resulting increase in nuclear generation is likely to displace generation from fossil sources, mainly n...
GE Vernova secures order to modernize key power plants in Egypt
CAIRO, Egypt (April 29, 2026) – GE Vernova Inc. (NYSE: GEV) announced today that it received an order from an affiliate of Egyptian Electricity Holding Company (EEHC,) Middle Delta Electricity Production Company (MDEPC), to modernize power generation infrastructure and improve
GE Vernova announces new wind turbine orders from BBWind and Greenvolt Power in Germany
MADRID, SPAIN (April 23, 2026) - GE Vernova’s Wind segment announced today that it has secured agreements to supply 71.5 MWs of onshore wind turbines to BBWind and Greenvolt Power for various projects across Germany. The deals, which were booked in the Q4 of 2025, represent a significant milestone
Staffordshire, U.K. (April 22, 2026) – The GE Vernova Foundation today announced Engineers of Change, a dynamic new initiative designed to inspire the next generation of engineers and energy leaders through early exposure to engineering, hands-on learning, and direct connections with industry
Greenville, S.C. (April 22, 2026) – The GE Vernova Foundation today announced Engineers of Change, a dynamic new initiative designed to inspire the next generation of engineers and energy leaders through early exposure to engineering, hands-on learning, and direct connections with industry
Cambridge, Mass (April 22, 2026) – The GE Vernova Foundation today announced Engineers of Change, a dynamic new initiative designed to inspire the next generation of engineers and energy leaders through early exposure to engineering, hands-on learning, and direct connections with industry
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GE Vernova expands manufacturing capacity in Vietnam to support growing global electrification needs
Hai Phong, Vietnam | March 10, 2026 – GE Vernova (NYSE: GEV) today announced an investment of approximately $200 million to expand manufacturing capacity within its Electrification segment by establishing a new facility in Hai Phong, Vietnam. GE Vernova’s Electrification segment provides
HANOI, Vietnam (March 10, 2026) – GE Vernova Inc. (NYSE: GEV) today hosted the inaugural Energy of Change Summit in Hanoi, bringing together over 400 senior representatives from government, national utilities, suppliers, and energy ecosystem stakeholders across Vietnam and Asia. Hosted by Scott
WILMINGTON, North Carolina (March 10, 2026) – Global Nuclear Fuel (GNF, a GE Vernova-led alliance with Hitachi, Ltd. and affiliate of GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy) today announced it has been awarded a contract by Entergy to continue to fuel its Grand Gulf and River Bend Station nuclear power
GE Vernova expands manufacturing capacity in Italy to support growing global electrification demand
SESTO SAN GIOVANNI, Italy (March 3, 2026) - GE Vernova Inc. (NYSE: GEV) today announced approximately $30 million investment in the expansion of its electrification manufacturing facility in Sesto San Giovanni, Italy, to support rising global demand for electrification infrastructure.The
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