Engineering the AI Factory Converge Digest tracks the technologies defining next-generation AI data centers—from GPUs and CPUs to networking fabrics, storage, cooling, power systems and hyperscale infrastructure. Coverage spans the complete architecture of modern AI factories. |
Technology Pillars AI Infrastructure ›GPUs ›CPUs ›Ethernet Fabrics ›Storage ›DCI ›Liquid Cooling ›Power › |
Key Players NVIDIA ›AMD ›Intel ›Broadcom ›Arista ›Cisco ›Supermicro ›Equinix › |
| Tracking: Scale Up • Scale Out • AI Factories • Rack-Scale Systems • Ultra Ethernet • InfiniBand • PCIe • CXL • HBM • 1.6T |
CoreWeave, a specialized cloud provider built for large-scale GPU-accelerated workloads, secured $2.3 billion in debt financing led by Blackstone and Magnetar with participation from Coatue, DigitalBridge, BlackRock, PIMCO, Carlyle and...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the general availability of new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors, promising up to 15% better...
Mubadala, the Abu Dhabi sovereign investment company, has acquired a minority stake in Aligned Data Centers, alongside majority partners managed by Macquarie Asset Management. Aligned offers both Scale Data Centers (colocation)...
Amazon activated a new AWS Local Zone in Phoenix, Arizona, making a select set of EC2 instance types, EBS volume types, and other AWS services available with single-digit millisecond when...
Broadcom announced shipment of its new Trident 4-X7 Ethernet switch ASIC— a 4.0 Terabits/second fully programmable switch designed for enterprise data center ToR (Top of Rack) boxes. The Trident 4-X7...
A new Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC) has been established with the goal of bringing together leading companies for industry-wide cooperation to build a complete Ethernet-based communication stack architecture for high-performance...
Digital Realty has partnered with GI Partners to establish a joint venture for the sale of a 65% interest in two data center buildings and associated equipment in the Chicago...
Keysight Technologies introduced its AresONE-M 800GE Layer 1-3 Ethernet performance test platform, supporting data center interconnect speeds from 10GE to 800GE. The new Keysight AresONE-M 800GE enables design engineers and...
Meta released Llama 2, its large language model with an open source license for research and commercial use. Microsoft is the preferred partner for Llama 2, however Meta announced support...
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BIX (Budapest Internet Exchange) has deployed Nokia’s 7750 SR IP edge routing platforms for a spine router network modernization. The Nokia SR platforms, with FP5 silicon and future-ready 800GE capability,...
Direct connections to major public clouds is now a prerequisite for colocation data center operators, according to a new report published by CoreSite, which is now a subsidiary of American...
Digital Realty’a newest data center in Osaka, Japan, has been certified NVIDIA DGX H100-ready as part of the NVIDIA DGX-Ready Data Center program. The KIX13 facility has been accredited for...
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