HPC News Bytes 033125: Oracle’s Big AMD GPU Buy, ASML in China, Quantum in the News, the Award Winning Hoefler - High-Performance Computing News Analysis

HPC News Bytes 033125: Oracle’s Big AMD GPU Buy, ASML in China, Quantum in the News, the Award Winning Hoefler – High-Performance Computing News Analysis

  https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/HPCNB_20250331.mp3 Happy April Fool’s Day Eve to you! Here’s a quick (8:42) review of recent news from the world of HPC-AI, including: – AMD MI355X to debut with a 30,000-GPU Oracle cluster – In the face of U.S. trade policy, ASML to open repair hub in China – EuroHPC-JU’s CINECA selects 140-qubit Pasqal system…

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China-US chip war takes a quantum leap with breakthroughs declared on same day

China-US chip war takes a quantum leap with breakthroughs declared on same day

The global race for quantum supremacy has intensified, with research teams from China and the United States announcing major achievements in this week’s edition of the prestigious peer-reviewed journal Nature. While Peking University researchers unveiled the world’s first large-scale quantum entanglement on an optical chip, a Microsoft team claimed to have created topological qubits –…

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Elon Musk responds to Satya Nadella's post on quantum computing: 'More and more...'

Elon Musk responds to Satya Nadella’s post on quantum computing: ‘More and more…’

Microsoft recently unveiled Majorana 1, the world’s first Quantum Processing Unit (QPU) powered by a Topological Core. The chip, the company said, is designed to scale to a million qubits on a single chip. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella shared a post on microblogging site X stating “a couple reflections on the quantum computing breakthrough”. In…

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang just tanked quantum-computing stocks after saying their most exciting developments are more than a decade away

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang just tanked quantum-computing stocks after saying their most exciting developments are more than a decade away

Shares of quantum-computing companies that skyrocketed in 2024 collapsed by double digits Wednesday after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said practical uses for quantum computing were more than a decade away. A handful of quantum computing stocks have skyrocketed as some paint the technology as the next big technological innovation, but Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang warned…

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US-China Tech Pact Revamped Amidst Rivalry

US-China Tech Pact Revamped Amidst Rivalry

The United States has revised its longstanding science and technology agreement with China, reflecting intensified competition over technological dominance. The updated agreement, signed on Friday, introduces stricter safeguards to protect national security. Covering only basic research, the agreement sidesteps critical technologies like artificial intelligence and quantum computing, crucial for economic and military influence. It…

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