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https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/HPCNB_20260309.mp3 A wonderful March morning to you! The world of HPC-AI churned out its usual plethora of important news last week, here’s a brief (10:35) discussion of recent developments, including: – AI+HW 2035: Shaping the Next Decade – a visionary paper from 12 researchers – Now CPUs are in short supply, too – What’s causing IT shortages – Foxconn is upbeat about 2026 – EuroHPC Summit 2026 in Cyprus postponed You can find our podcasts at...

https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/HPCNB_20260302.mp3 A good early March day to you! Advanced computing made big news this past week, here’s a quick (9:50) recap of recent developments, including: – AI for military use: Anthropic, OpenAI and DOD – The evolving SambaNova-Intel partnership and the new SN50 chip – Previews of big conferences coming up: GTC 2026 and Mobile World Congress You can find our podcasts at insideHPC’s @HPCpodcast page, on Twitter, at the OrionX.net blog, on...

AMD’s strategic struggle to carve out a growing piece of the GPU pie from market dominator NVIDIA took a positive turn for the challenger today with the announcement that AMD and Meta have agreed on a 6-gigawatt deal for AMD Instinct GPUs. The companies said the agreement expands on their existing partnership and aligns roadmaps across silicon, systems and software to deliver AI platforms designed for Meta’s workloads.

COLLEGE PARK, Md. — February 23, 2026 — Quantum company IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) announced it was awarded a contract under the Missile Defense Agency Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract with a ceiling of $151 billion. This contract encompasses a range of work areas that allows for the rapid delivery of innovative capabilities to the warfighter with increased speed and agility.

Two researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have been named recipients of 2025 Early Career Research Program awards from the DOE Office of Science. David Kaphan and Yong Zhao will each receive $550,000 per year for five years to further their research.

https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/HPCNB_20260223.mp3 Boeing C-17 Transport Plane (source: Wikipedia) Good February morning to you! The HPC-AI (with emphasis on AI) generated its usual quantity of news of late, here’s a brief (10:57) run-down of developments, including: – The scramble for AI data center power pulls in “portable” nuclear reactors – Quantum teleportation – Quantum communications and how it works – Silicon photonics for quantum computing You can find our podcasts at...

T-Labs, the research and development division within Deutsche Telekom, and Qunnect, a quantum networking compay, say they have successfully demonstrated quantum teleportation over a commercial network in Berlin, marking a “milestone in advancing deployable quantum technologies on existing telecommunications infrastructure.” By using newly commercial technologies to overcome instabilities and interferences in existing telecom infrastructure, T-Labs and Qunnect demonstrated how a...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Photonic Inc., a distributed quantum computing and communications technologies company, today announced the appointment of a new executive chair and four new directors to its board following its recent $180 million CAD ($130 million USD) investment round. Joining Photonic Founder Dr. Stephanie Simmons, Chief Executive Officer Dr. Paul Terry, Dr. Hermann Hauser, and Lorrie Norrington on the Board are Alex van Someren, Don Mattrick, Nathan Medlock and Ashton Scordo.

The project, called SMART Plant 1.0 (Sensors, Machine vision, Automation and Robotics for Transforming Plants), successfully demonstrated an early stage plant transformation system that uses robotics to replace a laborious, manual task in plant science. SMART Plant 1.0 identified and robotically collected tissue from live plants, treated it to transform and trigger growth, and placed it on a special nutrient blend so that it develops a cell mass that can form a new plant.

PALO ALTO, Calif. – February 19, 2026 — D-Wave Quantum Inc. today joined the Southeastern Quantum Collaborative (SQC) as an inaugural member, along with The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Davidson Technologies, IBM and Alabama A&M University. The SQC will bring together academia, industry and government to accelerate the advancement and application of quantum information science and technology across the Southeast.