VSORA Unveils Jotunn8, Europe’s ‘Most Powerful AI Chip’
📅 - French semiconductor company VSORA has announced the production launch of Jotunn8, a new artificial intelligence (AI) inference chip that the company claims is Europe's most powerful to date. Designed to power large-scale AI applications in modern data centers, the chip promises to deliver unprecedented efficiency and scalability.
It would position VSORA as one of the few European challengers to U.S. tech giants dominating the AI hardware market.
Now entering production, Jotunn8 marks a milestone for both VSORA and the European semiconductor ecosystem. The chip is engineered to match the raw computational performance of leading AI accelerators from the United States while consuming less [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - Aligned and Calibrant Partner on 31MW Battery System for Data Center - Aligned Data Centers has partnered with Calibrant Energy to launch a large-scale battery storage project designed to solve one of the data center industry's biggest challenges: access to reliable grid power. The collaboration represents a major step toward addressing the growing strain on U.S. power infrastructure as data centers expand to support artificial intelligence and high-performance computing workloads.
Under the agreement, Calibrant will deliver a 31-megawatt / 62-megawatt-hour battery energy storage system (BESS) at Aligned's data center campus in the Pacific Northwest. The system, expected to be operational in 2026, will serve as a critical bridge between traditional grid [...]
📅 - IDC: Nearly Half of Enterprises to Deploy Agentic AI by 2030 - IDC has unveiled its FutureScape 2026 report, predicting that by 2030 nearly half of all global enterprises will orchestrate networks of AI agents across core business functions. The research signals a tipping point in enterprise technology, marking the transition of Agentic Artificial Intelligence (AI) from experimental pilots to a fully embedded layer of enterprise operations.
Spanning more than 35 global reports, IDC's FutureScape 2026 offers one of the most comprehensive outlooks to date on the coming wave of intelligent automation. The findings suggest that agentic AI - autonomous, decision-capable systems designed to operate with minimal human oversight - will fundamentally [...]
📅 - Snyk Unveils Evo: A New Frontier in AI-Native Application Security - Security platform provider Snyk has announced the launch of Evo by Snyk, a system the company describes as the world's first "agentic security orchestration platform" designed specifically to safeguard AI-native applications. The debut marks a significant step in the evolving relationship between artificial intelligence and cybersecurity, as enterprises race to secure the increasingly complex software ecosystems built on generative and autonomous AI models.
Snyk positions Evo as a response to a fundamental shift in how software is conceived, built, and deployed. As organizations integrate AI more deeply into their digital infrastructure, the line between developer productivity and [...]
📅 - Hyve Managed Hosting Expands U.S. Operations Amid Record Growth Year - Hyve Managed Hosting, a global provider of managed cloud and hosting services, has announced a milestone year defined by rapid U.S. growth, strategic partnerships, and an expanded leadership team. The company reports a 35 percent year-on-year increase in its American customer base, driven by rising enterprise demand for compliant, secure, and fully managed cloud solutions.
The acceleration underscores how businesses are seeking greater control, transparency, and compliance in their cloud environments amid tightening data governance requirements.
The surge in demand has prompted Hyve to make several strategic moves in 2024, including relocating its U.S. operations to a new office in [...]
📅 - Greenhouse Datacenters Highlights Security and Sustainability Leadership - TierPoint, a U.S.-based provider of secure, connected IT infrastructure and cloud services, has announced the launch of its Adapt Platform, a new suite of managed security services designed to strengthen enterprise defense against evolving cyber threats.
The platform's centerpiece is Adapt MDR (Managed Detection and Response) - an AI-driven threat monitoring system combining automated intelligence with 24/7 human expertise to deliver rapid detection, prioritization, and response.
According to TierPoint, the Adapt MDR solution has been internally deployed across the company's own data centers and systems for more than five years, giving it a proven track record of real-world resilience. [...]
📅 - Alibaba Cloud Claims 82% GPU Reduction With New AI Pooling Tech - Alibaba Cloud has unveiled details of a new GPU pooling technology that it claims can reduce the number of Nvidia graphics processing units required to run its large language model (LLM) workloads by as much as 82 percent.
Alibaba outlined the innovation in a research paper titled "Aegaeon: Effective GPU Pooling for Concurrent LLM Serving on the Market," presented this week at the 31st Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) in Seoul, South Korea. The paper describes how Alibaba's system, named Aegaeon, dynamically allocates GPU resources across multiple AI inference tasks, enabling far greater efficiency and utilization across its infrastructure.
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