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SoftBank Group has announced it will acquire Ampere Computing, a Santa Clara-based silicon design company, in a $6.5 billion all-cash transaction. Ampere will become…
President Donald Trump announced the launch of the Stargate Project, a new American company that plans to invest an initial $100 billion in AI infrastructure…
SoftBank Corp. launched AITRAS, an AI-RAN-based convergence solution designed to host AI and RAN (Radio Access Network) workloads on the same NVIDIA-accelerated computing platform.…
SoftBank Corp. announced the development of an orchestrator that integrates AI applications and virtualized Radio Access Network (vRAN) workloads on a single virtualized infrastructure.…
SoftBank Corp. has joined LF Networking (LFN) as a Platinum member, enhancing the open-source community’s mission to advance digital transformation in telecommunications through shared…
SoftBank is building Japan’s most powerful AI supercomputer using NVIDIA’s Blackwell platform with plans to upgrade to the Grace Blackwell platform. This supercomputer will…
SoftBank Corp. and NewPhotonics have announced a collaborative research and development partnership to advance photonics technologies for next-generation data centers and mobile fronthaul infrastructure.…
SoftBank and Intelsat are seeking to launch a “Ubiquitous Network” that will enable seamless connectivity between terrestrial mobile networks and satellite communications. The partnership…
SoftBank Group has acquired Graphcore, a UK-based start-up developing an Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU) platform designed for handling extremely large machine intelligence workloads. Graphcore’s…
SoftBank has completed initial testing of Altaeros’ ST-Flex autonomous aerostat with a base station as the payload. Operational and telecom tests were performed at…
NVIDIA and SoftBank cancelled the acquisition of Arm Limited by NVIDIA. The companies cited significant regulatory challenges. SoftBank said it now plans a public…
SoftBank and KDDI have selected Nokiaa as one of the vendors to deploy Japan’s shared RAN. Nokia will install a Multi-Operator Radio Access Network…
Juniper Networks has joined the Softbank 5G Consortium established by Softbank Corp. as a founding member, having been named as a 5G-related partner. Juniper’s…
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