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July 29, 2026.
10 quantum research items collected on 2026-07-29; hardware, control, and industry signals routed.
Quantum
10 quantum research items collected on 2026-07-29; hardware, control, and industry signals routed.Hardware and Error Correction
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Control and Quantum-AI Integration
NordForsk Joins G7 Initiative to Fund International Quantum Technology Research Projects
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Quantum Machine-Learning Design Targets Training And Scaling Barriers
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Commercial and Industry Context
IonQ Receives Regulatory Approval to Complete Acquisition of SkyWater Technology
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Four Quantum Companies Sign-on to New Mexico’s Open-Access Quantum Network
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Unrouted Items
AI Finds New Weaknesses in Cryptographic Algorithms, Anthropic Says
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Two Hands Corporation Opens External Beta Testing for EntangleX Quantum Circuit Simulator
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Infleqtion Names Dr. Joseph Buck Senior Vice President of Quantum Computing Systems
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Vietnam Hosts International Quantum Hackathon Focused on Real-World Applications
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Chips
43 chip stack items collected on 2026-07-29; memory, packaging, compute, and foundry signals routed.Compute Accelerators
NAVER Expands AI Infrastructure With NVIDIA to Serve Surging Global AI Demand
NVIDIA and NAVER today announced that NAVER will expand sovereign AI infrastructure, starting at 55 megawatts with plans to move to gigawatt scale using the NVIDIA DSX™ platform to rapidly design, build and scale full-stack, end-to-end AI platforms that can serve enterprises, industries and government.
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 Tesla P100 Supercharges HPC Applications by More Than 30X
ISC16 - To meet the unprecedented computational demands placed on modern data centers, NVIDIA today introduced the NVIDIA® Tesla® P100 GPU accelerator for PCIe servers, which delivers massive...
Memory and Advanced Packaging
Flat Enough? Warpage Management Gets Harder In Advanced Packaging
<p>As packages get larger and thinner, warpage is becoming a process-control problem rather than a simple flatness spec. </p> <p>The post <a href="https://semiengineering.com/flat-enough-warpage-management-gets-harder-in-advanced-packaging/">Flat Enough? Warpage Management Gets Harder In Advanced Packaging</a> appeared first on <a href="https://semiengineering.com">Semicondu...
<p>Rethinking AI compute; DFI 6; 3D-IC reliability; local AI in browser; surface prep and cleaning.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://semiengineering.com/blog-review-july-29-3/">Blog Review: July 29</a> appeared first on <a href="https://semiengineering.com">Semiconductor Engineering</a>.</p>
Custom Silicon and Networking
AI Agent Orchestration For ASIC Autonomy
<p>How to achieve a 10X productivity improvement using AI agents.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://semiengineering.com/ai-agent-orchestration-for-asic-autonomy/">AI Agent Orchestration For ASIC Autonomy</a> appeared first on <a href="https://semiengineering.com">Semiconductor Engineering</a>.</p>
Foundry, Tools, and Capex
Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: July 28
<p>HW methods to throttle AI; M3D DRAM; interconnect signal-integrity analysis; 3D mask effects in high/hyper-NA EUV litho; compute-in-interconnect and memory; NbAs nanowire interconnects; and 3D conformal thin-film patterning.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://semiengineering.com/chip-industry-technical-paper-roundup-july-28/">Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: July 28</...
<p>Amkor's $1.5B deal; Intel Foundry revenue up 31%; Siemens' dual buys; SiC plant dies; AMD's big week; TSMC price hike; Nokia's fab buy; earnings; $300M for accelerating inference; Keysight's multiphysics; copper interconnect alternative.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://semiengineering.com/chip-industry-week-in-review-148/">Chip Industry Week In Review</a> appeared first...
Unrouted Items
SK Group and NVIDIA Expand Strategic Partnership Across AI Factories and Next-Generation Memory
SK Group and NVIDIA today announced plans for a $500-billion-plus comprehensive partnership to establish AI infrastructure serving the surging demand for global compute. The two sides signed letters of intent to formalize the agreement, which spans from AI factory construction to AI memory supply.
NVIDIA and SK hynix Announce Multiyear Technology Partnership to Advance Memory for AI Factories
NVIDIA and SK hynix today announced a multiyear technology partnership to advance next-generation memory for the global AI factory buildout and accelerate semiconductor design and manufacturing.
SK Telecom and NVIDIA Build AI Infrastructure to Power Korea’s AI Innovation
NVIDIA and SK Telecom today announced that SK Telecom plans to build a gigawatt-scale AI Cloud in Korea using the NVIDIA DSX™ platform, with the first AI factory coming online in 2027.
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 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:/...
AAI 2026: AMD Delivers Full-Stack Compute for the Agentic AI Era
AMD Commits up to £2 Billion to Accelerate AI Innovation and Research in the United Kingdom
AMD Announces More Than $10 Billion in Taiwan Ecosystem Investments to Accelerate AI Infrastructure
Preparing For AI-Driven Chip Design And Verification
<p>Jobs, markets, and economics are undergoing dramatic changes, but it's still too early to know how this will all shake out.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://semiengineering.com/preparing-for-ai-driven-chip-design-and-verification/">Preparing For AI-Driven Chip Design And Verification</a> appeared first on <a href="https://semiengineering.com">Semiconductor Engineering</a>...
Power
24 power layer items collected on 2026-07-29; data center load, grid, generation, and cooling signals routed.Data Center Power Demand
New York imports more electricity from Canada after high-voltage transmission line opens
On July 3, 2026, the New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) imported 52 gigawatthours (GWh) of electricity from Canada, the most traded between the two areas since January 2025. Some of the imported electricity flowed along the new Champlain Hudson Power Express (CHPE) transmission line between Quebec, Canada, and New York City, which officially reached commercial oper...
Metered electricity demand in the New York ISO falls midday because of small-scale solar
An increase in electricity generation from small-scale solar in New York has decreased the midday demand for metered electricity, amid overall declining load in the state. The trend is particularly notable in the early spring (March and April), when solar generation has an outsized impact because demand is relatively low and conditions for solar generation are favorable.
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
Solar generation in CAISO surpassed natural gas in the first five months of 2026
In the first five months of 2026, utility-scale solar generation surpassed natural gas generation in CAISO. Solar electricity generation in the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) over the first five months of 2026 increased 21% compared with the same period in 2024, and natural gas generation decreased by 60%, data from our Hourly Electric Grid Monitor shows.
Largest wind farm in the United States slated to begin commercial operations
The SunZia Wind Project, the largest wind farm in the United States, is slated to begin commercial operations this month. The wind farm, located in New Mexico, has a total net summer generating capacity of 3,650 megawatts (MW) and is composed of 916 wind turbines. SunZia's capacity is more than three times larger than the next two largest wind farms, Alta Wind in Southern Ca...
China's nuclear power capacity nearly doubled since 2016
From 2016 to 2024, China's nuclear generation capacity increased 76% (24 GW), based on our International Energy Statistics (IES) data. According to the International Atomic Energy Agency's Power Reactor Information System (PRIS), China added an additional 1.1 GW of nuclear power capacity in 2025 and 2.2 GW in 2026 (through May). China is continuing to build out its nuclear g...
HONOLULU, (July 20, 2026) – GE Vernova Inc. (NYSE: GEV) today announced it has secured a contract with Hawaiian Electric (HECO), the electric public utility in Hawaii, to supply six LM6000VELOX* aeroderivative package units to repower the aging oil-fired steam turbines at its Waiau
GE Vernova to deliver SF₆-free grid hubs for Stromnetz Berlin
BERLIN, Germany, (16 July 2026): GE Vernova Inc. (NYSE: GEV) today announced it has been awarded two contracts by Stromnetz Berlin GmbH for the design, delivery and installation of two new high-voltage electrical substations in Wittenau and Neukölln. These grid nodes form part of Berlin’s high
GE Vernova modernizes its R&D lab in Italy to support more reliable electric grids
NOVENTA DI PIAVE, Italy —June 30, 2026— GE Vernova today announced the completion of the modernization of its high-voltage research and development (R&D) laboratory at its Noventa di Piave site, near Venice, Italy. The lab tests equipment that helps electricity move safely from where it is
GE Vernova secures H-class equipment order for EVN’s Quang Trach II LNG Power Plant in Vietnam
HANOI, Vietnam - June 23, 2026 – GE Vernova Inc. (NYSE: GEV) today announced it has secured an order for two 9HA.02 gas turbines and two H78 generators for Vietnam Electricity’s (EVN) Quang Trach II LNG Power Plant in Vietnam. The new combined-cycle power plant is expected to generate
Cambridge, MA (June 17, 2026) – GE Vernova Inc. (NYSE: GEV) today released its 2025 Sustainability Report, demonstrating continued progress toward its mission to electrify the world to thrive and decarbonize, with an emphasis on moving bold and innovative breakthrough
Unrouted Items
Energia Costa Azul, Mexico's second LNG terminal, shipped first cargo
Energia Costa Azul, the second liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility in Mexico, shipped its initial cargo from Phase 1 of the terminal on July 8, according to the project developer. The completion of the project adds 0.4 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) of nominal export capacity from a single train, tripling Mexico's LNG export capacity. The facility is the first te...
Global liquefied natural gas trade volumes reached record high in 2025
Global liquefied natural gas (LNG) trade volumes increased 5.4% to a record 56.3 billion cubic feet per day last year (Bcf/d), driven largely by U.S. LNG export capacity expanding to meet growing demand, according to a recent report from the International Group of Liquefied Natural Gas Importers (GIIGNL). Global LNG trade has slowed this year following the closure of the key...
U.S. refining capacity decreased during 2025
U.S. operable atmospheric distillation capacity, the primary measure of refinery capacity, totaled 18.2 million barrels per calendar day (b/cd) on January 1, 2026-down over 250,000 b/cd (about 1%) compared with January 1, 2025-according to our latest annual Refinery Capacity Report.
U.S. commercial crude oil inventories have decreased in June
For the week ending June 19, 2026, U.S. refineries processed 17.1 million barrels per day (b/d) of crude oil, down 81,000 b/d from the previous week, and they operated at 96.1% capacity utilization. Gasoline production averaged 9.5 million b/d, and distillate production increased to 5.2 million b/d.
UAE's exit from OPEC+ reduced the group's share of crude oil production and capacity
On April 28, 2026, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) announced that it was leaving OPEC, effective on May 1. OPEC was formed in 1960 by Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela, with the stated objective to "coordinate and unify petroleum policies among Member Countries." OPEC is best known for its effect on global crude oil prices.
U.S. natural gas storage capacity increased slightly in 2025
Underground working natural gas storage capacity in the Lower 48 states increased slightly in 2025, according to our latest data, with growth concentrated in the South Central and Mountain regions. Underground natural gas storage provides a source of energy when demand increases, balancing U.S. energy needs. We calculate natural gas storage capacity in two ways: demonstrated...
Paris, FRANCE (July 28, 2026) — First Hydro Company (joint venture between ENGIE and La Caisse), and GE Vernova Inc. (NYSE: GEV), announce the next phase of the modernization/replanting of the Dinorwig pumped storage hydropower plant in North Wales, UK. Under the agreement, GE Vernova is
GE Vernova modernizes its Veresegyház hub to boost energy independence and lean production lines
VERESEGYHÁZ, Hungary – July 27, 2026 — GE Vernova Inc. (NYSE: GEV) is proud to mark the 25th anniversary of its Veresegyház facility this year, celebrating a quarter-century of excellence as the company’s largest Gas Power manufacturing base outside the United States. To honor this milestone, the
GE Vernova powers Africa’s industrialisation with integrated energy solutions
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (June 17, 2026) – In line with the Africa Energy Forum’s theme, ‘Building Africa’s industrialized Future,’ GE Vernova Inc. (NYSE: GEV) today showcased its comprehensive portfolio of technologies engineered to translate large-scale infrastructure ambitions into operational
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
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