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Astera Labs debuts Scorpio fabric switch to accelerate PCIe for AI, cloud

Network World

Founded in 2017, Astera Labs is a semiconductor company that specializes in developing connectivity technologies for AI and cloud infrastructure. fabric switch GPUs and AI acceleration technologies typically connect to a hardware motherboard via a PCIe (PCI Express) slot connection. Scorpio PCIe 6.0 Wireshark 4.4

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Sustainability, grid demands, AI workloads will challenge data center growth in 2025

Network World

Data centers this year will face several challenges as the demand for artificial intelligence introduces an evolution in AI hardware, on-premises and cloud-based strategies for training and inference, and innovations in power distributionsall while opposition to new data center developments continues to grow.

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Seven important trends in the server sphere

Network World

There are numerous overall trends, experts say, including: AI everything: AI mania is everywhere and without high power hardware to run it, its just vapor. All the major players Nvidia, Supermicro, Google, Asus, Dell, Intel, HPE as well as smaller vendors are offering purpose-built AI hardware, according to a recent Network World article.

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Fujitsu, Osaka University develop quantum circuit generator to hasten pace to commercialization

Network World

Fujitsu and Osaka University have developed new technologies that they said will accelerate the move to practical quantum computing, the next-generation computing paradigm for workloads that increasingly demand more processing power than classical computing can provide.

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Amazon claims to cut quantum computing timeline by 5 years with new Ocelot chip

Network World

We believe this will accelerate our timeline to a practical quantum computer by up to five years, says Oskar Painter, AWS director of Quantum Hardware, in a blog post released today. It will likely be beside other quantum hardware offerings, much like in EC2 where AWSs Graviton chips are offered alongside NVIDIA and other instances, he said.

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VMware picks up partners for open-source confidential computing development

Network World

Virtualization technology provider VMware has announced that it is partnering with AMD, Samsung, and members of the RISC-V keystone community for the development and operations of confidential computing applications. To read this article in full, please click here

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Keysight network packet brokers gain AI-powered features

Network World

This week, network hardware and testing vendor Keysight Technologies announced an expansion of its Vision series network packet brokers with the debut of new AI Insight Broker features. To be clear, the expansion is not new hardware, but rather a new capability for thesoftware stack that runs on the companys Vision packet brokers.

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