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May 26, 2026.
70 quantum research items collected on 2026-05-26; hardware, control, and industry signals routed.
Quantum
70 quantum research items collected on 2026-05-26; hardware, control, and industry signals routed.Hardware and Error Correction
Asymptotically Optimal Depth Fermionic Permutation on 2D Grid Quantum Architecture without Ancillas
Simulating fermionic systems on qubit hardware involves many nonlocal interactions, and efficient routing of these interactions is critical to the overall cost of fermionic simulation algorithms. Recent works reduce this Jordan-Wigner routing overhead to polylogarithmic depth under all-to-all connectivity, but degrade to $O(\sqrt{N}\,\mathrm{polylog}\,N)$ for $N$ fermionic m...
Evaluating System-Level Fidelity with Peaked Random Circuits
Quantum computing is transitioning from experimental prototypes to commercially available turnkey systems, making architecture-agnostic performance metrics essential for cross-platform comparison. Peaked Random Circuits (PRCs) have recently been proposed as a viable path to demonstrate quantum advantage on NISQ devices: a quantum processor can reliably detect a single, peake...
Unified Flux Control Architecture for Fluxonium Qubits
Control architectures that reduce hardware overhead while maintaining high-fidelity operations are essential for the continued scaling of superconducting quantum processors. Here we experimentally realize a unified control architecture for fluxonium qubits, in which both transverse ($XY$) and longitudinal ($Z$) operations are implemented through a single flux-control channel...
Recent demonstrations of non-Abelian braiding of graph vertices on noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) superconducting processor, and the experimental realization of topological order in general on various quantum hardware platforms necessitate an important question: when does a native (topological) fusion readout genuinely help for topological anyonic Hamiltonians imple...
Implementation of distillation protocols using a recirculating bricks mesh network
General-purpose programmable photonic processors provide a flexible foundation for integrating various functionalities within a single chip. A two-dimensional bricks waveguide mesh of Mach Zehnder interferometers has been demonstrated to possess considerable potential in the domain of photonic neural networks and quantum signal processing. In this article, we propose an expa...
Sideband fingerprints of antibunched light in cascaded quantum wave mixing
Quantum wave mixing on a single superconducting qubit produces a hierarchy of coherent side peaks associated with elastic multiphoton scattering pathways. In a cascaded source--probe geometry these pathways become sensitive to the photon statistics of the radiation emitted by the source qubit. We develop an analytical theory of this effect starting from the cascaded master e...
Homomorphic Quantum Error Correction
Homomorphic quantum error correction aims to protect quantum data against both unauthorized access and environmental noise during server-based processing. We investigate the algebraic compatibility between quantum homomorphic encryption and quantum error correction, determining precise conditions under which encrypted encoded states remain inside the relevant code space duri...
High fidelity preservation of photonic hyperentanglement in a free-space optical delay line
Photonic hyperentanglement enables increased information capacity and enhanced functionality for quantum communication and networking. However, synchronization of hyperentangled photon pairs requires maintaining correlations simultaneously across multiple degrees of freedom (DOFs). The preservation of polarization and energy-time entanglement in hyperentangled photon pairs i...
Control and Quantum-AI Integration
PauLIB: A High-Performance Library for Processing Pauli Strings
Processing large Pauli sums is a significant bottleneck in quantum chemistry, Pauli propagation, and Pauli-based compilation. Existing frameworks often suffer from Python interpreter overhead or utilize hash-map data structures that hinder SIMD vectorization and complicate multi-threaded merging. We present PauLIB, a header-only C++20 library designed to eliminate these bott...
Bargmann Zeros as a Diagnostic of the Tunneling Transition in Double-Well Quantum Systems
Complex zeros of wavefunctions represented as entire functions in Bargmann--Fock space encode structural information about the underlying quantum state. Prior work employed zero galleries of randomly generated polynomial superpositions of Fock states as visual fingerprints suitable for classification. Here we examine whether Bargmann zeros of physically realized eigenstates...
A Variational Dissipative Framework for Quantum Algorithms
Dissipation engineering has attracted growing interest as an approach to controlling open quantum systems through engineered system-environment interactions. Standard variational quantum circuits are usually built from unitary operations and therefore explore only a restricted family of states. To go beyond this limitation, we introduce a variational dissipative framework in...
Open quantum systems are central to quantum optics, condensed matter, and chemistry, yet their simulation remains challenging for both classical and near-term quantum hardware. In this work we implement and execute utility-scale quantum circuits that accurately reproduce the dissipative dynamics of interacting qubits. We consider a one-dimensional chain of many qubits weakly...
Q-RAIL: A Reliability-Aware Framework for Quantum Federated Learning on Heterogeneous Noisy Hardware
Quantum federated learning (QFL) on NISQ hardware is highly sensitive to backend heterogeneity: some clients contribute informative updates, while others contribute noise-dominated drift that uniform averaging cannot distinguish. We propose Q-RAIL (Quantum Reliability-Aware Federated Inference and Learning), a circuit- and calibration-aware aggregation method for hardware-he...
Rethinking Expressibility-Trainability Trade-off in Hybrid Quantum Neural Networks
Hybrid quantum neural networks (HQNNs) integrate parameterized quantum circuits (PQCs) within classical networks, where the behavior of the underlying PQCs is often the primary focus of analysis. In this context, expressibility and trainability are widely used to characterize PQC's performance and are commonly assumed to exhibit a trade-off, where highly expressive circuits...
Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) rely on parameterized quantum circuits (PQCs), whose performance is governed by expressibility and trainability. Existing studies typically evaluate these properties at the logical circuit level, implicitly assuming that designed PQCs remain unchanged during hardware execution. In practice, however, hardware-aware transpilation modifies...
Quantum Parameterized Self-Attention Network for Image Classification
Transformer now underpins modern AI as its core infrastructure. Its defining capability-dynamically focusing on the most relevant information in complex inputs-is bounded above by the self-attention scoring function. Quantum computing, with its superposition, entanglement, and probabilistic outputs, offers a fundamentally distinct computational framework for exploring beyond...
Commercial and Industry Context
Dispersive readout of cavity-coupled solid-state sensor with near-unity readout fidelity
Solid-state quantum sensors based on ensembles of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond have emerged as powerful platforms for high-precision metrology. Coupling the NV ensemble to a microwave cavity mode in a cavity quantum electrodynamics (cQED) configuration enables spin readout that surpasses the limitations of conventional optical detection, achieving sub-picotesla m...
Emmanuel Macron Announces an Additional €1 Billion ($1.16B USD) in Funding for France’s Quantum Plan
<p>French President Emmanuel Macron announced an additional funding of €1 Billion ($1.16B USD) for the country's Quantum Plan. The Quantum Plan was original funded at €1.8 billion for the period 2021-2025 and then supplemented in 2024 by €500 million from a program to support public procurement in the defense sector. This new announcement is in [...]</p> <p>The post <a href=...
Xanadu Establishes a Synthetic At-the-Market Equity Facility to Raise up to $300 Million
<p>Xanadu Quantum Technologies (Nasdaq/TSX: XNDU) has established a synthetic at-the-market equity facility allowing the company to raise via private placements up to $300 million over the next three years in Class B subordinate voting shares. Partnering with Yorkville Advisors, this facility gives Xanadu a flexible, opportunistic mechanism to inject capital directly into it...
EPB and University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Launch $6.8 Million Quantum Workforce Initiative
<p>The Board of Directors for EPB has approved a formal resolution establishing a $6.8 million USD joint funding partnership with the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC). The matching investment allocates $850,000 annually from each institution over a four-year operational term. The programmatic mandate expands regional academic infrastructure, funds applied researc...
Flatiron Institute Tensor Network Algorithm Overturns Historical D-Wave Quantum Supremacy Claim
<p>Physicists at the Center for Computational Quantum Physics (CCQ) at the Simons Foundation’s Flatiron Institute, in collaboration with Boston University, have developed a classical algorithm that successfully simulates complex three-dimensional quantum dynamics previously claimed to be impossible without a quantum computer. Published in Science, the study refutes a high-pr...
Alice & Bob Secures NVentures Backing and Backs Expanded €1 Billion French Plan Quantique
<p>Alice & Bob has secured a strategic venture capital investment from NVentures, the private equity arm of NVIDIA Corporation, expanding its existing €100 million ($116 million USD) Series B funding round. The investment follows a public policy milestone where French President Emmanuel Macron announced an additional €1 billion ($1.16 billion USD) allocation to the state...
Telia And QMill Demonstrate New Quantum-Enhanced Data Encryption Method For Mobile Networks
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Unrouted Items
Rounding Almost Commuting Hamiltonians
Commuting Hamiltonians lie at the boundary between classical constraint satisfaction and quantum many-body physics, exhibiting rich quantum structure while remaining more tractable than general noncommuting models. In contrast, physical Hamiltonians are rarely exactly commuting, which naturally motivates the study of almost commuting Hamiltonians. Despite their relevance, th...
Quantum Domain Decomposition for Preconditioning the Finite Element Method
Even in cases where quantum linear solvers provide significant speedup compared to their classical counterparts, their performance depends on some of the same parameters. In particular, the condition number of the matrix which is to be inverted is a decisive parameter. A well known classical, and now quantum, remedy is to precondition the linear system $A x = b$ by premultip...
Krylov Complexity for Plane Wave Matrix Model
We study Krylov complexity in BMN Plane Wave Matrix Model at large mass deformation. We consider various consistent reductions of the matrix model that allow us to perform a Hamiltonian analysis which leads to different notions of the Krylov complexity. In the first part of the paper, we study the Krylov state complexity considering systematic reduction of $N=3$ and $N=4$ re...
Toward General Quantum Control with Physics-Informed Large Language Models
Quantum control is essential for quantum information science and technology, yet designing high-fidelity control protocols remains challenging due to complex optimization landscapes, hardware noise, and long pulse sequences. Existing numerical solvers often require problem-specific engineering and produce opaque control amplitudes, while naive large language models (LLMs) la...
Training-Free Quantum Generative Paradigm via Local Parent Hamiltonians
We propose a training-free quantum generative paradigm, which is fundamentally different from current generative models, which demand substantial computational power, face practical scalability limits, and often function as opaque black boxes, despite their remarkable success. We enable image and text generation without parameter training, by constructing a local parent Hami...
We generalise the quantum mechanical toy model for gravitationally induced decoherence presented in Xu, Blencowe (2022) and Domi et al. (2024). In contrast to earlier formulations, in which the Hamiltonian of the system of interest is linearly coupled to the position operators of the oscillators in the environment, we consider an interaction formulated in terms of Weyl eleme...
Geometric Quantization on Orbifolds
This text introduces geometric quantization on orbifolds. After reviewing the necessary background, it develops new treatments of prequantization, polarizations, and metaplectic correction for symplectic orbifolds.
Photon position eigenstates in configuration space
The expressions of the eigenfunctions of the Hawton photon position operator in the configuration space are derived for several classes of wave function, including the Riemann-Silberstein and Landau-Peierls cases. Although these eigenfunctions have a simple form in momentum space, the explicit characterization of their representations in the configuration space is rather mor...
Steady-state phases in long-range measurement-only quantum circuits
Measurements can drive quantum many-body systems into nontrivial steady states and induce interesting dynamical phase transitions, rendering measurement-only quantum circuits a useful platform for exploring quantum many-body phases beyond those of equilibrium Hamiltonian systems. Here we study a class of long-range measurement-only quantum circuits with competing two-qubit a...
We formulate a one-dimensional flux-controlled anomalous Floquet quantum walk and show that it admits a direct microscopic realization in a driven bipartite lattice. The walk consists of a coin-dependent drift step and a momentum-dependent coin mixing step, so the same evolution operator governs quasienergy bands, boundary modes, and bulk dynamics in real space. Because the...
Thermalization in Spatially Extended Open Quantum Systems: Local versus Global Markovian Evolution
We investigate the dynamics of a qubit chain locally coupled to a thermal reservoir, modeled through repeated collisions with particles drawn from a heat bath. Under suitable conditions, the resulting Lindblad equation is thermodynamically consistent -- it drives the system toward thermal equilibrium -- while remaining local at short times. This framework reveals a crossover...
QGCL: Quantum-Guided Clause Learning for Cryptanalytic SAT
Power side-channel attacks on AES exploit data-dependent physical leakage to recover secret keys, but turning noisy leakage observations into a verified AES-128 key remains a hard combinational search problem. SAT-assisted power side-channel cryptanalysis addresses this challenge by encoding AES semantics, key constraints, plaintext/ciphertext consistency, and leakage predic...
Wave-particle duality of unpolarized photons
Photons in a two-path interferometer best embody wave-particle duality (WPD), which is a core concept of quantum theory. So far, the WPD relation is commonly written as $V^2+D^2 \leq 1$, where $V$ is the interference fringe visibility and $D$ is path distinguishability, i.e., the distinguishability of which path a photon passed. This inequality is saturated only when the whi...
Q-LEAK: Quantum-Based LEAKage Verification for Side-Channel Countermeasures
Formal verification of power side-channel leakage and its countermeasures in cryptographic algorithms is challenging, as SAT-based methods fail to scale on XOR-heavy, time-unrolled cryptographic circuits with realistic leakage models. We construct compact Conjunctive Normal Form (CNF) cases modeling one-bit leakage under two-trace conditions, linking key dependence and state...
The permutation model is a classical spin system where elements of the symmetric group interact with one another. The partition function of this model is directly related to the entanglement structure of random quantum circuits and random tensor networks. In these contexts, the entanglement entropy undergoes a transition between area-law and volume-law scaling, depending on...
Dissipative Time Quasicrystals from Multilevel Interference
Boundary time crystals exhibit spontaneous breaking of continuous time-translation symmetry through persistent periodic oscillations in driven-dissipative many-body systems. Here, we show that multilevel interference provides a natural route beyond periodic order, enabling dissipative time quasicrystals without externally imposed quasiperiodic driving. We consider a collecti...
Sensitivity to perturbations in the three-dimensional Anderson model
We investigate the fidelity susceptibility, which quantifies the sensitivity of single-particle eigenstates to perturbations, in the three-dimensional Anderson model. As a function of disorder strength $W$, it exhibits two distinct peaks. The first peak signals a crossover at weak disorder strength from plane-wave states to single-particle quantum chaos, and its position shi...
We investigate the renormalized fermion-gluon vertex, the fermion effective mass, and the fermion condensate when the fermion propagates in an external Yang-Mills gauge field. We use an exact Green's function for the Dirac operator in a non-Abelian plane-wave gauge field to construct the renormalized vertex function, calculate the on-shell fermion self-energy, and the backgr...
Strategic Non-Shareability of Quantum Correlations
Correlations distributed by a mediator are usually valued for the coordination they enable between authorized agents, but in adversarial settings a more decisive property is whether the same coordination can be inherited by an outside colluder without disturbing the authorized marginal. Classical shared randomness is freely copyable, so a hidden seed coordinating two agents...
Non-Hermitian Twisting Theory under the open boundary condition
The non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) is a hallmark of non-Hermitian system, yet its generalized Brillouin zone (GBZ) description is restricted to periodic systems. We develop a site-resolved theory via a local scaling transformation (LST), introducing local twisting $T_n$ to quantify metric operator $ξ$ nontriviality. This elucidates the NHSE's origin and uncovers the genera...
Negative entropy in scrambling black holes
We present a microscopic statistical-mechanical foundation for interpreting the horizon area of a scrambling black hole as coherent information, equivalently negative conditional quantum entropy, in Hawking's pair-creation picture. We derive the entropy increase induced in a black hole when an infalling object is absorbed and scrambled into its microscopic degrees of freedom...
Causal Order Cannot Be An Observable
Recent developments in the formalisation of quantum causal structures have made it possible to test and compare hypotheses about causal structure empirically, rather than being a-priori assumptions. Such differences in causal structure may be leveraged to distinguish between the processes they belong to, akin to distinguishing between quantum states known to belong to differ...
Pseudorandom Dynamics in the SYK Model and Cryptographic Censorship in JT Gravity
We argue that the SYK model provides a conditional realization of Cryptographic Censorship in JT gravity. By using the Weingarten calculus and random matrix universality, we prove that the SYK disorder ensemble is an approximate unitary $k$-design for all $k=\poly(N)$, with deviation controlled by the spectral form factor. We then formulate the planted-SYK hardness conjectur...
Kernel Embedding for Operator-Valued Measures and Its Application to Quantum Tomography
This paper introduces the Quantum Covariance Embedding, which embeds Positive Operator-Valued Measures into a tensor product of a Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space and the quantum state space via a tensorized Bochner integral. This construction induces the Quantum Maximum Discrepancy that metrizes the space of quantum measurements. Applying this framework to Quantum State Tom...
We develop a theoretical and numerical framework to analyze the effect of transport on the motional states of ions in a trapped-ion quantum processor. We decompose the shuttling protocol into primitive operations and characterize these in terms of their heating performance. Instead of having to simulate the whole transport protocol for each complete ion trajectory, the metho...
Identifying spatial quantum correlations in mixed states is challenging because thermal mixed-state contributions obscure the entanglement encoded in subsystem entropy. Here, we introduce the entanglement projected entropy, a diagnostic for extracting boundary-sensitive quantum correlations from mixed fermionic Gaussian states. By resolving subsystem entropy into Gaussian en...
Surveying the California Quantum Ecosystem
<p>By Doug Finke I attended the third convening of a Quantum California event last week at the University of California, San Diego. Two previous convenings were held: one at the University of California, Berkeley in November 2025 and the other at the University of California, Santa Barbara in March of this year. We have been [...]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://quantumcomp...
<p>SBQuantum has been awarded two defense procurement contracts totaling $3 million CAD ($2.2 million USD) to deliver and validate its proprietary quantum diamond magnetometers in operational military environments. Funded through the Government of Canada’s primary defense innovation initiatives, the dual awards support the deployment of localized quantum-sensing platforms to...
Illinois Maps a Framework for Developing Quantum Talent in the State
<p>A joint institutional research coalition has published a foundational workforce study positioning Illinois as a primary national hub for quantum information science and technology (QIST) talent development. The first-of-its-kind report was co-authored by the Illinois Science and Technology Coalition (ISTC), the Illinois Economic Development Corporation (IEDC), the Illinoi...
Romania Plans €100 Million Quantum Computer Project in Iași
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SeQure Quantum: The First Quantum-Safe Link in Critical Electrical Infrastructure in Chile
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AI-Run Robot Lab Creates Graphene and Builds Quantum Devices
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Chips
46 chip stack items collected on 2026-05-26; 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
Side-Channel Risks Across 2.5D/3D Integration and Chiplet-Based Systems (Grenoble INP – UGA et al.)
<p>Researchers from Grenoble INP – UGA, CNRS, TIMA have released “Spying Across Chiplets: Side-Channel Attacks in 2.5/3D Integrated Systems”. Abstract “Advanced packaging and chiplet-based integration are increasingly adopted to build complex heterogeneous systems beyond the limits of monolithic scaling. While these architectures offer major benefits in terms of modula...
Foundry, Tools, and Capex
<p>Taiwan, Europe packaging buildout; 2nm ramps; quantum big $; 2 new university hubs; agent honeypots; Samsung strike averted; extreme environment chip design; quantum-dot qubit device fabricated w/high-NA EUV; EU flagship power electronics project; CNTs.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://semiengineering.com/chip-industry-week-in-review-139/">Chip Industry Week In Review</a>...
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 Announces More Than $10 Billion in Taiwan Ecosystem Investments to Accelerate AI Infrastructure
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
<p>Three approaches toward energy-harvesting displays.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://semiengineering.com/research-bits-may-26/">Research Bits: May 26</a> appeared first on <a href="https://semiengineering.com">Semiconductor Engineering</a>.</p>
Detecting Defect-Induced Silent Data Corruptions in CPUs (Stanford, Google)
<p>Researchers from Stanford University and Google have published “ITHICA: Intra-Thread Instruction Checking Approach for Defect-Induced Silent Data Corruptions”. Abstract “Hyperscaler reports of silent data corruptions (SDCs)—presumed to be caused by silicon manufacturing defects—have motivated the development of functional tests for detecting defective CPUs and their use i...
Impact of Band-to-Band Tunneling in the CTL of V-NAND Flash Memory (U. of Seoul, Samsung)
<p>A new technical paper, “Impact of Band-to-Band Tunneling in the Charge Trap Layer of NAND Flash Memory,” was published by researchers from University of Seoul and Samsung Electronics. “This article investigates the impact of band-to-band tunneling (BTBT) occurring in the charge trap layer (CTL) of vertical NAND (V−NAND) flash memory under excessive erasu...
An Agent-Driven End-to-End HW-SW Co-Design Benchmark for Heterogeneous SoCs (Columbia, IBM)
<p>Researchers from Columbia University and IBM Research have released “HSCO-Bench: An Agent-Driven End-to-End Hardware-Software Co-design Benchmark for Systems-on-Chip”. Abstract “Large language models (LLMs) are adopted for software and hardware design, yet these domains are still evaluated separately. Software benchmarks typically assume fixed hardware targets, while hard...
Beyond Ideal Crystals: The Case For Scale In Atomistic Modeling
<p>Capturing important details without making calculations impractically expensive.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://semiengineering.com/beyond-ideal-crystals-the-case-for-scale-in-atomistic-modeling/">Beyond Ideal Crystals: The Case For Scale In Atomistic Modeling</a> appeared first on <a href="https://semiengineering.com">Semiconductor Engineering</a>.</p>
Power
22 power layer items collected on 2026-05-26; data center load, grid, generation, and cooling signals routed.Data Center Power Demand
Data center server energy use grows across the commercial building stock
In the Annual Energy Outlook 2026 (AEO2026), our long-term outlook, we project electricity consumed by data center servers will increase across the commercial building stock, increasing more in standalone data centers than in all other data center rooms combined. By 2050, server consumption alone reaches between 446 billion kilowatthours (BkWh) and 818 billion BkWh. The high...
Commercial electricity sales have soared in Virginia, driven by data centers
Commercial electricity sales in Virginia increased by nearly 30.0 million megawatthours (MWh) between 2019 and 2025, much faster growth than in any other state except Texas, a much larger state, according to our Annual Electric Power Industry Report. The growth in sales of electricity in Virginia is largely driven by a concentration of data centers, as well as electric vehic...
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...
ENKA and GE Vernova mark the start of commercial operation of Türkiye’s first HA-powered plant
Kırklareli, Türkiye - (May 12, 2026) ENKA and GE Vernova Inc (NYSE: GEV) today announced the start of commercial operations at the 852 megawatts (MW) Kırklareli power plant in Kırklareli, about 20 miles from the Bulgarian border in Türkiye. The facility is the first HA-powered plant
Grid and Generation
Coal remains competitive for power generation in the central United States
In the first four months of 2026, electricity, natural gas, and coal prices suggested continued favorable economics for coal generation in MISO. The dark spread of coal, the difference between the fuel costs for coal-fired generation and the wholesale electricity price, in the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) region outpaced a similar measure of revenue relati...
Electricity generation from solar could exceed coal in ERCOT for the first time in 2026
In our most recent Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), we forecast that annual electric power generation from utility-scale solar will surpass that from coal for the first time in 2026 within the electricity grid that covers most of Texas. Solar generation is expected to reach 78 billion kilowatthours (BkWh) in 2026 in the electricity grid operated by the Electric Reliability...
Coal distributions for non-electric power use decline in the South
The volume of coal delivered in the United States for uses other than power generation—primarily, for manufacturing—decreased by about half in the last 15 years. Coal delivered for these purposes in the South decreased the most in percentage terms between 2010 and 2025, falling 75%, or 14.7 million short tons (MMst), according to our Annual Coal Distribution Report and Quart...
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...
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
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GE Vernova to deliver pumped-storage technology for India’s 1.35 GW Upper Sileru hydropower plant
VADODARA, INDIA (May 4, 2026) – GE Vernova Inc. (NYSE: GEV) announced today that it has secured an order from Megha Engineering & Infrastructures Limited (MEIL) to deliver nine 150 MW pumped-storage units for the 1.35 GW Upper Sileru hydropower plant, located in the state of
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
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