@HPC Podcast Archives - OrionX.net

- Nvidia invests $2bn in Marvell - NVLink Fusion - Why big companies invest in small ones - Andrew Ng on anti-AI activism - 32, 16, 8, TurboQuant at 3.5 bits... do I hear 1? - PrismML’s Bonsai-8B 1-bit LLM [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/HPCNB_20260406.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20260406 appeared first on OrionX.net.

-Arm enters the chip business with Arm AGI CPU - Is AI inference increasing the CPU:GPU ratio? - Google’s TurboQuant algorithm - Data center energy efficiency - Bringing back a 2,000-year-old cement battery - India’s chip industry - TSMC's 2nm capacity crunch - $20B for a TeraFab ? [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/HPCNB_20260330.mp3"][/audio]   The post HPC News Bytes – 20260330 appeared first on OrionX.net.

- GTC postview, list of announcements - GPUs and China - DoE $293m funding RFA for technology challenges - Volume on HPC-AI-Quantum co-design, call for contributions - Turing Award goes to QKD inventors, quantum cryptography pioneers [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/HPCNB_20260323.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20260323 appeared first on OrionX.net.

- GTC, G stands for growth - Nvidia’s historical and future market segments - Nvidia Nemotron agentic model, LPU team - Chipper clouds: Cerebras+AWS, d-Matrix+Gimlet Labs - AI’s next big thing? AMI’s "world model” JEPA - AMI’s massive $1B+ *seed* round - European AI companies - InsideHPC signs off [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/HPCNB_20260316.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20260316 appeared first on OrionX.net.

- AI+HW 2035: Shaping the Next Decade - CPUs are in short supply too - What is causing IT shortages - Foxconn is upbeat about 2026 - Foxconn, its rivals, and its customers - EuroHPC Summit 2026 postponed [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/HPCNB_20260309.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20260309 appeared first on OrionX.net.

- AI for military use; Anthropic, OpenAI, DoD - SambaNova: Intel partnership, new SN50 chip - GTC 2026 - Mobile World Congress 2026 [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/HPCNB_20260302.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20260302 appeared first on OrionX.net.

- AI power needs - Small Modular Reactors (SMR) - US military, DOE, airlift small reactor - Quantum "teleportation" - How does Quantum Communication work? - Silicon photonics for quantum computing [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/HPCNB_20260223.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20260223 appeared first on OrionX.net.

- "Ride the Wave, Build the Future: Scientific Computing in an AI World", by Dongarra, Reed, Gannon - Call for National Moonshot Program for future HPC systems - DOE Genesis Mission, 26 Challenges for National Science and Technology - NSF $100M National Quantum and Nanotechnology Infrastructure, NQNI - State of The Quantum Computing Industry - Los Alamos National Laboratory Center for Quantum Computing [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/HPCNB_20260216.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20260216 appeared first on OrionX.net.

- Sovereign AI: what is it, and does anyone have it? - Bullish on Eviden: Europe’s top system company restores old name - Intel to build server GPUs of its own - MIT Technology Review AI Predictions [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/HPCNB_20260209.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20260209 appeared first on OrionX.net.

- Microsoft Maia 200 for Inference - Nvidia H200 (not H20) for China - Corning-Meta Data Center - Nvidia-CoreWeave AI Deal - Neoclouds’ role in Chip vs Cloud competition [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/HPCNB_20260202.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20260202 appeared first on OrionX.net.

- Intel earnings, outlook - Industry-wide supply shortage - Shrinking windows of vendor price quotes - Micron fuels upstate New York tech hub - Chip investments in US regions [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/HPCNB_20260126.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20260126 appeared first on OrionX.net.

Our special guest today is Paul Bloch, President & Co-founder of DDN, the high performance storage and intelligent data platform company. AI runs on massive amounts of fast and reliable data, which makes topics related to storage systems especially important. We discuss a broad range: technical optimizations for AI storage, DPUs and future directions, alignment with streaming, HPC, and accelerated computing, pilot to production and training to inference technical and operational challenges, sovereign AI and data sovereignty, and more. Join us! [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/107@HPCpodcast_IV_DDN_Paul-Bloch_AI-Storage.mp3"][/audio] The post @HPCpodcast-107: Paul Bloch of DDN on AI Storage – Industry View appeared first on OrionX.net.

- OpenAI and Cerebras - Taiwan Pledges $250B US investment - TSMC in Arizona - Intel 18A fab and Apple - Inside an AI lab online movie is a 300-million-view hit [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/HPCNB_20260119.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20260119 appeared first on OrionX.net.

- CES 2026 - Nvidia Vera Rubin, in-house co-Design - AMD Helios, MI400 MI500 - TSMC GigaFab Arizona - Intel Panther Lake, 18A Fab - Sandia National Lab Neuromorphic Computing for PDE Math [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/HPCNB_20260112.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20260112 appeared first on OrionX.net.

- China's access to H200 GPUs - Meta acquires Manus - Sandia's new photonics chip [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/HPCNB_20260105.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20260105 appeared first on OrionX.net.

- Nvidia Groq $20B deal - Quantum-HPC hybrid systems and applications - Quantum control, scale, error correction - NCAR Closure [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/HPCNB_20251229.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20251229 appeared first on OrionX.net.

- High Frequency Trading race to save nanoseconds - AI federated learning at DOE labs - Perspective from "AI nobility" who are also "AI doomers" [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/HPCNB_20251222.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20251222 appeared first on OrionX.net.

- Nvidia H200 exports to China - H20, H200, Chinese chips: how do they stack up? - Few fast GPUs vs many slow GPUs - China’s electricity production - Datacenter electricity use in the US - Cell-phone sized AI supercomputer - HPC at the edge - Regulating AI [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/HPCNB_20251215.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20251215 appeared first on OrionX.net.

- Marvell in AI, Celestial AI - Co-Packaged Optics, Photonics Interconnects - Lasers for EUV, xLight FEL Lasers, ASML Cymer's LPP Lasers - ASML, Canon, Nikon - Chinese efforts in chip manufacturing: SMEE, SiCarrier - Canon's Nano Imprint Lithography (NIL) - China's Xizhi Electron Beam Lithography - Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST)'s simplified optics in EUV - SDCS Research on Parkinson's Disease [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/HPCNB_20251208.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20251208 appeared first on OrionX.net.

- CRN's Top 10 Semiconductor Companies of 2025 - Google TPU vs. Nvidia - Neoclouds, New Customer Class - DOE Genesis Mission National Initiative [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/HPCNB_20251201.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20251201 appeared first on OrionX.net.

- SC25 quick takes - Thank you St. Louis - Hyperion Research annual SC briefing - Hyperion quantum computing update - New public-private partnership model for DOE's new supercomputers [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/HPCNB_20251124.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20251124 appeared first on OrionX.net.

Join Shahin and Doug as they analyze and discuss the new TOP500 list. They go over HPL, HPL-MxP, HPCG, Green500, geographical distribution, vendor distribution, and other observations. [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/106@HPCpodcast_SP_TOP500_SC25_20251119.mp3"][/audio] The post @HPCpodcast-106: TOP500 at SC25 Conference appeared first on OrionX.net.

- Chip Restrictions in China - Quantum Computing: IBM, Quantinuum, D-Wave, US DOE, UK NMI-Q, Julich - SDSC 40th Anniversary, the original 5 NSF centers - SC25 glance ahead [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/HPCNB_20251117.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20251117 appeared first on OrionX.net.

Dan Nystedt, vice president of research at Tri-Orient Investments, joins us to discuss the Asian tech scene: geopolitical tensions and Taiwan's role, rivalries in chip manufacturing and AI, complexities of the global tech supply chain, and China's rare earth dominance and geopolitical impact. [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/105@HPCpodcast_ID_Dan-Nystedt_Chips-AI-China_20251113.mp3"][/audio] The post @HPCpodcast-105: Dan Nystedt on Chips, China, AI Tech appeared first on OrionX.net.

- Quantum-accelerated supercomputing - NVQLink, QCS, QEC - Tesla Intel collaboration? - Is the chip era ending? - SC25 offers new options for those impacted by US Government shutdown [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/HPCNB_20251110.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20251110 appeared first on OrionX.net.

- New Exa-Class Supercomputers at DOE labs, HPE, AMD, NVIDIA, Oracle, - AI-RAN, Telecoms+AI, Nvidia+Nokia+partners - Intel+SambaNova ? [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/HPCNB_20251103.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20251103 appeared first on OrionX.net.