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August 21, 2026.
70 quantum research items collected on 2026-08-21; hardware, control, and industry signals routed.
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70 quantum research items collected on 2026-08-21; hardware, control, and industry signals routed.Hardware and Error Correction
Programmable cavity QED with a fiber-integrated atomic array
Strong atom-photon interactions in optical cavities are a key resource for quantum information processing, quantum networking, and the exploration of quantum optical effects. Optical tweezer arrays offer scalable, site-resolved control of neutral atoms, but their integration with high-cooperativity cavity QED systems remains challenging. Here we combine a twelve-site $^{87}$...
Noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers are constrained by circuit depth, while product-formula simulation of spin systems leads to narrow and deep circuits. Here we introduce a fan-out-based gadget compiler that trades circuit depth for width in simulations of Heisenberg-type nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) Hamiltonians. Each logical spin is encoded into a small repetit...
Hybrid Qubit-Rotor Quantum Systems: Clifford Structure, Universal Control, and Applications
A $U(1)$ quantum rotor pairs a periodic angle with an integer-valued conjugate momentum, and occurs in molecular rotation, superconducting phase-charge circuits, and compact gauge fields. Coupling such a rotor coherently to qubits gives a hybrid register whose control structure is not inherited from either the oscillator-qubit or the qudit case. We develop a Clifford theory,...
Non-unital noise is a fundamental feature of open quantum systems, governing energy exchange and inducing state translations on the Bloch sphere. While such translations can be useful for tasks such as state preparation and channel capacity, unital dynamics where no translation occurs are often preferred in quantum information processing, particularly for error correction. P...
Large Scale Entanglement Structure Detection in 100-Qubit Systems via Local Joint Measurements
Identifying the entanglement structure of a many-body quantum state, namely how its constituents partition into unentangled blocks, is a central task in quantum information science, yet conventional tomography scales exponentially with system size. Here we introduce a scalable framework that recognizes large-scale entanglement structures directly from local correlation finge...
Architecture and Compilation Co-Design for High-Rate Quantum Product Codes on Neutral Atom Arrays
Achieving fault-tolerant quantum computing at a practical scale demands quantum error correction (QEC) codes with high encoding rates. Quantum low-density parity-check (qLDPC) codes emerge as a promising candidate, especially given the rise of neutral atom arrays that provide dynamic long-range connectivity via atom movements. In general, synthesizing valid and efficient phy...
Our present investigation into a rather rudimentary problem is motivated by two classes of problems studied since the 70's, cosmological particle creation and its more accessible analog, the dynamical Casimir effect on the one hand, and quantum friction a neutral atom moving along a dielectric surface would experience, on the other. The backreaction effects of produced parti...
Reinforcement LearningtoHarness Approximation Errors for Long-Time QuantumSimulation
Accurate digital quantum simulation at long times is limited by the accumulation of errors inherent to approximate simulation. Here we introduce RL-Trotter, a reinforcement-learning framework that treats unavoidable approximation errors as resources for error correction rather than merely imperfections to suppress. We show that low-dimensional information from conservation l...
Control and Quantum-AI Integration
The ebbs and flows of quantum learning and sensing
What is the relation between subsystem quantum complexity and the emergence of computationally useful structure? We address this by studying a family of minimally tunable postvariational quantum circuits, and show how spectral nonflatness and metrological response directly control the ensemble-typical information processing power. This unveils an intermediate "learning phase...
Shadow models of a quantum model for cloud cover and the influence of finite sampling noise
Quantum computing is a quickly growing field that is promising various advantages compared to conventional computing. However, currently stand-alone quantum applications are scarce and hybrid (quantum-classical) computing is needed, especially in quantum machine learning (QML). Due to current limitations of quantum computing hardware and the coupling between HPC and quantum...
Resource-Efficient Bio-Molecular Docking on a NISQ-era Digital Quantum Computer
Molecular docking is a vital computational task in drug discovery, wherein the objective is to efficiently identify optimal binding poses between a ligand and a target receptor protein. Due to the combinatorial explosion of possible binding configurations, docking of large and flexible molecules remains a computationally intensive problem, especially at scale. Early studies...
Distributed Variational Quantum Eigensolver: Embarrassingly Parallel strategies on NISQ
Variational Quantum Eigensolver requires many circuit executions, making it ideal for distributed parallelization. However, heterogeneous noise in NISQ devices can skew results and efficiency. Using the CUNQA platform for emulation of virtual QPUs, we evaluate three embarrassingly parallelization strategies (shot-level, circuit-level for gradients and observables and candida...
TT-net: Quantum Inspired Tensor Network Denoising in Conditional GANs
Developed as a workhorse for classical simulations of quantum algorithms and quantum many-body systems, Tensor Network methods have entered the scientific mainstream in quantum physics. Among various types of tensor networks, Tensor Trains (commonly know as Matrix Product States in the quantum computing community) have already found applications in machine learning. These me...
Crypto4A Achieves World-First FIPS 140-3 Level 3 Validation for Quantum-Safe HSM Module
<p>Canadian cybersecurity developer Crypto4A Technologies Inc. has received NIST FIPS 140-3 Level 3 validation for QASM™, the core cryptographic module integrated into its QxHSM™ hardware security module platform. Supporting the full suite of NIST-standardized Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) algorithms, the certification marks the first time a quantum-safe HSM has achieved L...
<p>Cybersecurity and network intelligence vendor Allot Ltd. (NASDAQ: ALLT) has been appointed founding member and Chair of Israel’s newly established Post-Quantum Communications (PQC) Consortium. Supported by the Israel Innovation Authority's (IIA) Technological Infrastructure Division, the national consortium brings together multinational technology leaders, defense contrac...
Commercial and Industry Context
Competing triangular and stripe supersolid orders in a dipolar quantum gas
Supersolids are exotic quantum states in which long-range phase coherence coexists, and may interplay, with emergent spatial orders. A particularly rich phase diagram featuring several competing spatial orders is predicted for dipolar supersolids with two-dimensional crystals, yet the experimental observation of this structural variety has remained limited. Here we experimen...
Quantum-mechanical wave functions in singular potentials: linear and nonlinear states
It is known that the attractive singular inverse-square potential gives rise to the critical quantum collapse in the framework of the three-dimensional (3D) linear Schroedinger equation. This article summarizes theoretical results which demonstrate suppression of the collapse, caused by this singular potential, and the creation of the otherwise missing ground state (GS) in a...
Rigetti Establishes Dedicated Systems Delivery Organization to Scale On-Premises Deployments
<p>Superconducting quantum hardware developer Rigetti Computing, Inc. (Nasdaq: RGTI) has reorganized its operating structure to separate commercial system deployments from core quantum processor R&D. The company has established a dedicated Systems Delivery organization to manage manufacturing operations, commercial sales, and customer-facing engineering, while consolidat...
Dirac Labs Raises $1.8M Pre-Seed Round to Scale Diamond-Based Quantum Navigation Sensors
<p>University of Wisconsin-Madison spinout Dirac Labs Inc. has raised $1.8 million USD in pre-seed funding to prototype and field-test its diamond-based quantum positioning sensors. Led by venture firm TitletownTech (a joint initiative of Microsoft and the Green Bay Packers), the round included participation from Automotive Ventures, Riceberg Ventures, quantumEDGE Ventures,...
Superpositions Partners with EBU Luxembourg to Integrate Quantum Workflows into Business Curricula
<p>European quantum software company Superpositions has entered into a strategic educational partnership with the European Business Institute of Luxembourg (EBU) to power its Q-Ready academic initiative. Under the agreement, EBU is incorporating quantum computing and hybrid quantum-classical algorithms into its business school curriculum, providing students with direct hands...
FormationQ and STFC Hartree Centre Partner to Drive Enterprise Quantum and AI Adoption in the UK
<p>Quantum enablement company FormationQ and the STFC Hartree Centre—part of the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)—have announced a strategic partnership to accelerate the commercial adoption of quantum computing, artificial intelligence (AI), and high-performance computing (HPC) across UK industry, public sector, and rese...
EBU and Superpositions Partner to Add Quantum Computing to Business Education
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Dirac Labs Raises $1.8M for Quantum Navigation Sensors
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Unrouted Items
Group-theoretic treatment of strong light-matter coupling with an arbitrary number of excitations
Strong light-matter interactions in optical microcavities give rise to hybrid light-matter states known as polaritons. While actively used in modern technologies, theoretical descriptions of such systems are often restricted to the single-excitation case, limiting their ability to capture many-excitation physics and hindering further technological advancements. Here, by expl...
A Protocol for Shielding-Enhanced Loading of Single Polar Molecules into Optical Tweezers
We propose the high-fidelity preparation of single bosonic molecules in optical tweezers starting from small tweezer-trapped molecular ensembles. Our scheme combines a static electric field and a microwave field to generate strong, tunable, anisotropic interactions that shield the molecules against two-body collisional loss. We show that this shielding eliminates all long-ra...
Imaging the vacuum fluctuations of a quantum field
Heisenberg uncertainties lead to inevitable fluctuations in the measurement outcomes for quantum-mechanical observables. For quantum fields, these uncertainties result in random spatial structures in snapshots of a field, even when the field is in its ground (vacuum) state. Such `vacuum fluctuations' are at the heart of a wide range of phenomena, from spontaneous decay proce...
Coherent states in quantum billiards constructed in the basis of the continued eigenfunctions
In the article a new approach to construction of generalized coherent states in quantum billiards is proposed. The coherent states are defined as the projections of a Gaussian wave function on the basis of the eigenstates of the quantum billiard, continued outside. The continuation is built as the solution of the equivalent Balian--Bloch equation, defined on the entire $\mat...
Parallel Quantum Advantage with Limited Adaptivity Requires Structure
Aaronson and Ambainis (Theory of Computing, 2014) conjectured that quantum query algorithms admit efficient almost-everywhere classical simulation: for any $T$-query quantum algorithm, its acceptance probability can be approximated on a $(1-δ)$ fraction of inputs, up to $ε$ additive error, using $\mathrm{poly}(T, 1/ε, 1/δ)$ classical queries. At a high level, the conjecture...
In this study, we present an analytical approach based on the extended Nikiforov-Uvarov method to solve the generalized Klein-Gordon oscillator in the presence of a uniform magnetic field within the Som-Raychaudhuri space-time. Exact eigenstate solutions are obtained for two distinct potential models, namely the linear potential and the Cornell potential. The corresponding e...
Learning Potts Models and $Z_3$ Toric Codes: Higher and Ordinary Nishimori Criticality
Motivated by a previous Ising study, we identify a ${\it higher}$ Nishimori line in the learning phase diagram of the $2D$ $q$-state Potts model $(2 < q\leq 4)$ under bond-energy measurements. This ${\it higher}$ Nishimori line meets the critical temperature line of the Potts model, in a ${\it higher}$ Nishimori critical point -- a tricritical point at finite inference stren...
Jamming Extensions of Quantum Correlations Lead to Hidden Superluminal Signaling
Relativistic causality in certain spacetime configurations permits jamming - superluminal causal influences that nevertheless do not enable superluminal signaling. We fully characterize the correlations compatible with relativistic causality (RC) by extending the operator framework of PRL 104, 140404. When the underlying state is required to be quantum, we prove that any non...
Nonthermal Dynamics of a One-dimensional Rydberg-atom Chain with Constraint Four-body Interactions
We investigate dynamics of a linear chain of Rydberg atoms driven by a constrained four-body interaction, where two neighboring atoms are excited simultaneously from the electronic ground state $|0\rangle$ to Rydberg state $|1\rangle$ only when their closest neighbors are in $|0\rangle$ state. By employing an ansatz for the many-body ground state, the low-energy Hamiltonian...
Rigorous existence and location of quantum phase transitions in lattice Hamiltonian systems
We extend the analysis of the class of quantum phase transitions (QPTs) that can be interpreted as condensations in state space, first introduced in [M. Ostilli and C. Presilla, J. Phys. A 54, 055005 (2021)], by generalizing the arguments of [M. Ostilli and C. Presilla, Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 040601 (2021)] to prove the existence and determine the location (via simple bounds)...
Quantum Dissipative Paraelectricity
Whether a quantum system with a double-well effective potential undergoes spontaneous symmetry breaking depends not only on the potential landscape but also on the kinetics and the coupling with additional degrees of freedom. Here we introduce a quasi-exactly solvable model to study this problem in the context of ferroelectrics, with results that apply to a broad class of qu...
Proper Learning of Shallow All-to-All Quantum Circuits
This work considers a variation on the problem of learning shallow quantum circuits. Given query access to the circuit, as well as knowledge of its gate layout, we consider the task of learning the specific gates used in the circuit, producing an operationally-equivalent circuit matching this structure. Building on recent work for learning Haar random brickwork circuits, we...
A Zoology of Quantum Turing Patterns
We explore quantum Turing pattern zoology, where the same Lindblad equation supports a morphology atlas of stripes, spots, holes, labyrinths, and defects. The stable stripe species provides a quantitatively controlled case in which morphology and Gaussian witness loss separate parametrically. In particular, visible Turing stripes can remain after two Gaussian witness margins...
Boltzmann counting in Hilbert space
We introduce a geometric entropy for quantum preparations, defined as the logarithm of the Hilbert-space volume of pure states compatible with a given set of constraints. This construction extends Boltzmann's counting perspective to the quantum setting, where compatible states need not be orthogonal and the relevant notion of "number of states" is naturally replaced by a vol...
Preparation of Large Fock States in Resonators with High Probability
Large Fock states are important resources for bosonic quantum information and quantum-enhanced metrology, but preparing them with high probability at large excitation numbers remains challenging, as deterministic methods become increasingly control-intensive, while measurement-based approaches typically suffer from low heralding probabilities. Here we propose a protocol that...
We introduce the Spectral Autodiff Kernel Expansion (SAKE), a differentiable computational framework for transporting nonlinear spectroscopic response between neighboring quantum dynamical models. Rather than recomputing multidimensional spectra independently for each Hamiltonian or Liouvillian, SAKE constructs local transport expansions about a reference model by combining...
Geometric Control of Cat States in High Harmonic Generation
High-harmonic generation (HHG) provides a powerful platform for exploring the interaction between intense laser fields and matter on ultrafast timescales. Beyond its conventional description in terms of emitted radiation and electron dynamics, a fully quantum treatment of HHG reveals that the nonlinear light-matter interaction can modify the quantum state of the driving fiel...
Counterexamples to the fractional coloring conjecture for triply efficient shadow tomography
Fractional graph colorings are useful for the Shadow tomography of Pauli observables. In practice, it is desirable that any experimentally interesting set of Pauli operators has a small fractional chromatic number $χ_{f}$ for its anticommutation graph. Conjecture 13 in King, Gosset, Kothari, and Babbush [PRX Quantum 6, 010336 (2025)] states that if $B_ε(\varrho)$ is the set...
Quantum networks will combine optical fibre with free-space links, yet continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD) has been developed predominantly for one medium or the other, while operation across concatenated fibre-free-space channels remains largely unexplored. The two media impose contrasting requirements: fibre transmission is stable and permits long process...
By combining coherence thermofield dynamics with the single-Hessian approximation, we enable simulations of low- to medium-resolution vibronic spectra of weakly anharmonic systems at nonzero temperatures, at negligible additional cost relative to zero-temperature calculations. Single-Hessian coherence thermofield Gaussian wavepacket dynamics is exact in any harmonic potentia...
Kibble--Zurek Scaling in the Dicke Model at Mesoscopic Scales
The Dicke model is a paradigmatic setting for collective light-matter physics and the superradiant phase transition. Yet extracting the critical exponents is challenging at experimentally accessible mesoscopic sizes, due to the slow divergence of the correlation time under all-to-all coupling and a photon-loss-driven crossover to a distinct dissipative universality class. He...
PPT Entanglement with Correlated Catalysis: Monotones and Irreversibility
Quantum catalysts can overcome otherwise impossible quantum state transformations without being consumed, and allowing them to become correlated with the output makes this assistance substantially more powerful. This raises a fundamental question for entanglement theory: which limitations on state manipulation remain when such correlated catalysts are freely available? We an...
Radial Convex Geometry of Quantum States and Its Relation to Best Separable Approximation
We study bipartite entanglement from the convex geometry of quantum states. Taking the maximally mixed state as a reference point, we define a geometric entangled-space quantity $G(ρ)=[1-L(ρ)]/L(ρ)$ from the relative positions of the separable and quantum-state boundaries, and introduce a relative entanglement degree $Q(ρ)=[(1-p)/p]/G(ρ)$ by comparing it with the robustness...
Wide-field mid- to long-wave infrared imaging with undetected photons
Quantum imaging with undetected photons (QIUP) allows an object to be probed at mid-infrared frequencies by only measuring interference in the visible range, thus leveraging silicon camera technology. We show that non-collinear phase-matching in a silver thiogallate (AgGaS$_2$) crystal enables wide-field QIUP in the wavelength range of 6-10 $μ$m (1670-1000 cm$^{-1}$). A comb...
Bayesian inference and retrodiction for faithful states on von Neumann algebras
Retrodiction is the act of inferring a cause from its effects, the most common example of which is Bayesian inference. Retrodiction can be defined by its structural process-theoretic properties, which are mathematically captured by category theory. This categorical definition of retrodiction has recently been shown to potentially isolate the Petz recovery map as a unique uni...
Dynamical one-from-many quantum metrology: Sum rule and matrix-free precision bound
Practical quantum single-parameter estimation is rarely a pristine task; it almost invariably involves nuisance parameters, casting it as a one-from-many problem. Existing approaches to this problem rely on multi-parameter metrology, reducing the matrix quantum Cramér-Rao bound to obtain scalar quantum precision limits. However, these methods are often hampered by the demand...
Resonance Raman spectroscopy from ab initio Hagedorn wavepacket dynamics
We present a practical, ab initio time-dependent method using Hagedorn wavepackets to simulate resonance Raman (RR) spectra of polyatomic molecules. Hagedorn functions---Gaussians multiplied by specific polynomials---are used to represent RR initial and final states because these functions are exact solutions to the time-dependent Schrödinger equation for at-most-quadratic p...
Entangling two qudits of arbitrary dimension through light-atomic Faraday interaction
The paper investigates entangling operations acting on two qudits of arbitrary dimension, with one encoded in the states of a spatially multimode optical field, the other in those of atomic collective spin coherence, both carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM). We demonstrate the generation of a wide range of entangling operations within a protocol consisting of two Faraday...
Optomechanically induced transparency in the presence of a strong Duffing nonlinearity
We consider the combined effect of a Duffing nonlinearity and the optomechanical interaction on the cavity density of states (DOS), which is directly observable in optomechanically induced transparency (OMIT) experiments. Both nonlinearities introduce the same type of interaction between polaritons, producing a distinct feature in the optical response. We derive the resonant...
Constant-round quantum advantage in communication complexity for total functions
We show that there exists a total function for which there is a polynomial gap between the randomized and the constant-round quantum communication complexity. Previously, such a separation was known only for quantum protocols using polynomially many rounds.
An Irreducible Quantum Advantage in Aligning World Models with Reality
World models provide digital simulacra of the true world, allowing agents to be trained and tested before costly real-world deployment. At each time step, they receive an action and generate an observation and reward matching the statistics of the true world. In complex environments where present outcomes depend on events far in the past, this requires memory. One might expe...
Gradient flow towards quantum states with ideal quantum geometry
We propose a gradient-flow method for quantum states in lattice models, generated by an action consisting of the quantum-metric and the square of the Berry curvature. These two terms drive the spectral projector toward Bogomolny saturation and uniform Berry curvature, respectively. We show that, due to a no-go theorem for finite-dimensional projectors, the two conditions can...
AI Coding Assistants are Getting Smarter
<p>By Doug Finke Last year, we published an article titled Quantum SDKs are Dying, Long Live Quantum AI SDK describing how the classical computing concept of "Vibe Coding" is entering the quantum programming space. (Perhaps we should call it Vibe Qoding!) We continue to see this trend accelerate and believe it will profoundly impact the [...]</p> <p>The post <a href="https:/...
Caltech Researchers Measure Conformal Field Theory Spectra on a Neutral-Atom Quantum Simulator
<p>Credit: Caltech/Gyohei Nomura A physics collaboration led by Caltech—combining the experimental laboratory of Professor Manuel Endres and the theoretical group of Professor Jason Alicea, alongside theorists from Université Paris-Saclay and the Technical University of Munich—has performed the first direct experimental measurement of finite-size energy excitation spectra pr...
EigenQ and Silicon Valley Acquisition Corp. Advance $3B SPAC Merger via Form S-4 Submission
<p>Quantum technology developer EigenQ, Inc. and special purpose acquisition company Silicon Valley Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: SVAQ) have confidentially submitted a draft registration statement on Form S-4 to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The filing marks a formal regulatory step toward completing their previously announced business combination, which va...
Who Will Actually Use Quantum Computers? Study Identifies 11 User Types
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ORNL Quantum Computing User Forum Highlights Quantum-HPC Research
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Texas Quantum Strategy Takes Shape at UT Dallas Summit
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Quanome Technologies Forms Council to Advise on Quantum Technologies
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Pasqal and Bleichroeder Set August 25 Shareholder Vote on Business Combination
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Symmatrics Appoints Joe Reddix as Vice President of Federal Sector
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Chips
45 chip stack items collected on 2026-08-21; 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
How Will The Custom HBM Business Work?
<p>There is no one-size-fits-all — yet. </p> <p>The post <a href="https://semiengineering.com/how-will-the-custom-hbm-business-work/">How Will The Custom HBM Business Work?</a> appeared first on <a href="https://semiengineering.com">Semiconductor Engineering</a>.</p>
Foundry, Tools, and Capex
Don’t Scrap It, Save It: Feedforward Control For Modern Semiconductor Manufacturing
<p>By measuring each wafer after lithography and adjusting the next etch step, fabs can pull more wafers back into spec. </p> <p>The post <a href="https://semiengineering.com/dont-scrap-it-save-it-feedforward-control-for-modern-semiconductor-manufacturing/">Don’t Scrap It, Save It: Feedforward Control For Modern Semiconductor Manufacturing</a> appeared first on <a href...
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
<p>New Micron lab; chip/AI price jump; multi-die monitoring; cryo links for quantum chips; interconnect RC bottleneck; 18A win; CPO roadmap; 2 new CEOs; humanoid readiness gap; Hot Interconnects.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://semiengineering.com/chip-industry-week-in-review-152/">Chip Industry Week In Review</a> appeared first on <a href="https://semiengineering.com">Semi...
From Research To Production: Collaboration Is Key For Semiconductor Innovation
<p>Semiconductor R&D depends on access to high-quality data, realistic process assumptions, and practical learning from silicon. </p> <p>The post <a href="https://semiengineering.com/from-research-to-production-collaboration-is-key-for-semiconductor-innovation/">From Research To Production: Collaboration Is Key For Semiconductor Innovation</a> appeared first on <a href=...
Reducing Scope 3 Value Chain Emissions For Customers Through Sustainability And Innovation
<p>Reducing manufacturing-related emissions may support lowering the embedded carbon footprint of the chips customers use in their products. </p> <p>The post <a href="https://semiengineering.com/reducing-scope-3-value-chain-emissions-for-customers-through-sustainability-and-innovation/">Reducing Scope 3 Value Chain Emissions For Customers Through Sustainability And Innovatio...
CFETs Forge Better Connections
<p>Performance advantage may come down to material choices and precise interconnect decisions.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://semiengineering.com/cfets-forge-better-connections/">CFETs Forge Better Connections</a> appeared first on <a href="https://semiengineering.com">Semiconductor Engineering</a>.</p>
<p>Memory tagging; digital twin of the Moon; packaging moves front-and-center; streaming sensor data.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://semiengineering.com/blog-review-aug-19-3/">Blog Review: Aug. 19</a> appeared first on <a href="https://semiengineering.com">Semiconductor Engineering</a>.</p>
Power
21 power layer items collected on 2026-08-21; data center load, grid, generation, and cooling signals routed.Data Center Power Demand
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...
France, Paris, (August 20, 2026) - GE Vernova Inc. (NYSE: GEV) today announced its plans for CIGRE Paris 2026, one of the world’s leading gatherings for electricity transmission and power-system experts, taking place August 23–28. Electricity demand is accelerating around the world, driven by
Grid and Generation
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.
SILVES, Brazil — [August 19th, 2026] — GE Vernova Inc. (NYSE: GEV) and Eneva, the largest private natural gas operator in Brazil, celebrated the start of commercial operation of the Azulão I thermal power plant, located in Silves, approximately 330 kilometers (205 miles) from Manaus.
New Delhi, India (August 4, 2026) – GE Vernova Inc. (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) – GE Vernova (NYSE: GEV) today announced an expansion of its Power Transmission manufacturing facility in Charleroi, Pennsylvania, which produces high-voltage circuit breakers, switchgear products, and instrument transformers. By
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
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...
BRISBANE, Australia, (21 August) – GE Vernova (NYSE: GEV) today announced it has been chosen by Quinbrook for the third stage of the Supernode Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) project in Queensland. With this contract, GE Vernova will provide power conversion, control and integration
CHEVY CHASE, Maryland and WILMINGTON, North Carolina (August 13, 2026) – Blue Energy, a vertically integrated deployment platform for financeable, prefabricated nuclear power plants and GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GVH), today announced the signing of an agreement that launches the
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
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