August 12, 2026.

OpenLight and Tower Semiconductor Enable Photonic IC Design on InP-on-Silicon Platform

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QuSecure Adds Post-Quantum Cryptography Platform to Carahsoft GSA Schedule

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Quantinuum and Oracle Partner to Accelerate Hybrid Quantum Compute Adoption on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

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Quantinuum Revenue Jumps 279% in First Earnings Report Since IPO

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Honda Invests in Quemix to Advance Quantum Computing Applications for Materials Research

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Cuba-Based Team Builds Open Platform Aimed at Making Quantum Computing Easier to Use

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Can Quantum Save Democracy? Quantum Voting Experiments Put Ballot Secrecy and Election Security to the Test

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World Quantum Cannes Festival to Bring Quantum Industry Leaders Together in November

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Guest Post: US Quantum Resilience Clock Just Became Operational

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PsiQuantum Appoints Atomico Founder Niklas Zennström to Board of Directors

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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...

What Are DDR5 DIMM Chipsets? The Complete Guide To RCDs, PMICs, SPD Hubs and More

<p>How DDR5 DIMM chipsets work, why they matter, how they build upon DDR5 technology, and how emerging module architectures are extending memory bandwidth.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://semiengineering.com/what-are-ddr5-dimm-chipsets-the-complete-guide-to-rcds-pmics-spd-hubs-and-more/">What Are DDR5 DIMM Chipsets? The Complete Guide To RCDs, PMICs, SPD Hubs and More</a> a...

Blog Review: Aug. 12

<p>Early multiphysics; high-speed M-PHY; STCO for 3D-ICs; what EDA needs for AI; workload optimization.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://semiengineering.com/blog-review-aug-12-3/">Blog Review: Aug. 12</a> appeared first on <a href="https://semiengineering.com">Semiconductor Engineering</a>.</p>

HBM Becomes Testbed For 3D Assembly Yield

<p>High-bandwidth memory has become a proving ground for 3D stack testing, DFT, and reliability.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://semiengineering.com/hbm-becomes-testbed-for-3d-assembly-yield/">HBM Becomes Testbed For 3D Assembly Yield</a> appeared first on <a href="https://semiengineering.com">Semiconductor Engineering</a>.</p>

AI Chiplet Architectures Redefining Test Insertions

<p>Heterogeneous integration does not simply increase complexity but redistributes where quality must be assured. </p> <p>The post <a href="https://semiengineering.com/ai-chiplet-architectures-redefining-test-insertions/">AI Chiplet Architectures Redefining Test Insertions</a> appeared first on <a href="https://semiengineering.com">Semiconductor Engineering</a>.</p>

AMD Announces Production Ramp of Next-Generation AMD EPYC Processor “Venice” on TSMC 2nm Process Technology

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.

Palantir and NVIDIA Team Up to Operationalize AI — Turning Enterprise Data Into Dynamic Decision Intelligence

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.

Saudi Arabia and NVIDIA to Build AI Factories to Power Next Wave of Intelligence for the Age of Reasoning

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 &#38; 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 [&#8230;]</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&#8230; <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&#8230; <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&#8230; <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

Standards-Compliant 112G PHY for Linear Optics: Driving Efficient AI Infrastructure

<p>112G PHY IP for linear optics to reduce power, latency and thermal load for high-speed data movement in AI and data center systems.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://semiengineering.com/standards-compliant-112g-phy-for-linear-optics-driving-efficient-ai-infrastructure/">Standards-Compliant 112G PHY for Linear Optics: Driving Efficient AI Infrastructure</a> appeared first o...

From Hype To Implementation: Building The Core Pillars For AI In Semiconductors

<p>The most sophisticated AI algorithm in the world cannot compensate for fragmented data, absent governance, or siloed infrastructure. </p> <p>The post <a href="https://semiengineering.com/from-hype-to-implementation-building-the-core-pillars-for-ai-in-semiconductors/">From Hype To Implementation: Building The Core Pillars For AI In Semiconductors</a> appeared first on <a h...

How Long Does A Measurement Remain Valid?

<p>Measurements can be misleading after the chip, the test path, or the assumptions behind the result change. </p> <p>The post <a href="https://semiengineering.com/how-long-does-a-measurement-remain-valid/">How Long Does A Measurement Remain Valid?</a> appeared first on <a href="https://semiengineering.com">Semiconductor Engineering</a>.</p>

CPO Test Won’t Scale Without Standardization

<p>Across the CPO ecosystem, profitability will not happen until standardization occurs. </p> <p>The post <a href="https://semiengineering.com/cpo-test-wont-scale-without-standardization/">CPO Test Won&#8217;t Scale Without Standardization</a> appeared first on <a href="https://semiengineering.com">Semiconductor Engineering</a>.</p>

Battery storage capacity averaged 70% growth over the last three years

Utility-scale battery storage capacity in the United States increased significantly during the last three years, with an annual average growth rate of 70%. By the end of 2025, the U.S. power system had operational battery storage capacity of 43.6 gigawatts (GW). During the first six months of 2026, operators added another 8.3 GW of battery storage capacity, reaching nearly 5...

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...

Hourly peak load in ERCOT set a new record, exceeding 91 GW on July 22

Hourly peak load in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the regional transmission organization serving most of Texas, reached a record 91.1 gigawatts (GW) on July 22, 2026, according to data reported to us for our Hourly Electric Grid Monitor.

GE Vernova expands wind footprint in India with 163.4 MW order for Enfinity Global’s Fatehgarh Wind Farm

New Delhi, India (August 4, 2026) –&nbsp;GE Vernova Inc.&nbsp;(NYSE: GEV) announced today that it has signed an agreement* with Enfinity Global to supply 43 of its 3.8 MW–154m** onshore wind turbines for their Fatehgarh Wind Farm in Rajasthan, India. Deliveries for the project are expected to begin

GE Vernova expands Pennsylvania manufacturing facility to strengthen U.S. grid supply chain

CHARLEROI, Pa., (July 30, 2026) –&nbsp;GE Vernova (NYSE: GEV) today announced an expansion of its Power Transmission manufacturing facility in Charleroi, Pennsylvania, which produces high-voltage circuit&nbsp;breakers, switchgear&nbsp;products,&nbsp;and&nbsp;instrument&nbsp;transformers.&nbsp;By

Hawaiian Electric orders GE Vernova aeroderivative packages to help Hawaii’s power remain stable and uninterrupted

HONOLULU,&nbsp;(July 20, 2026)&nbsp;– GE Vernova Inc. (NYSE: GEV) today announced it has secured a contract with&nbsp;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):&nbsp;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&amp;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&nbsp;- June 23, 2026 – GE Vernova Inc.&nbsp;(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

GE Vernova’s New Sustainability Report Highlights Progress Adding New Power to the Grid, Enabling People to Thrive, Reducing Carbon Intensity, and Advancing Breakthrough Energy Technologies

Cambridge, MA (June 17, 2026) –&nbsp;GE Vernova Inc. (NYSE: GEV)&nbsp;today released its&nbsp;2025 Sustainability&nbsp;Report,&nbsp;demonstrating&nbsp;continued progress toward its mission to electrify the world to thrive and decarbonize, with an emphasis on moving bold and innovative breakthrough

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...

ENGIE and La Caisse select GE Vernova for the next phase of the modernization of Dinorwig pumped storage hydropower plant in North Wales, UK

Paris, FRANCE (July 28, 2026) — First Hydro Company (joint venture between ENGIE and La Caisse), and GE Vernova Inc.&nbsp;(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