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1 week ago | hpcwire.com | Andrew Jolly

PALO ALTO, Calif., April 15, 2025 — PsiQuantum today announced a $10.8M contract with the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) in Rome, N.Y., continuing a partnership that began in 2022. This phase will give AFRL a design space for comparative quantum circuits on PsiQuantum’s circuit tapeout, part of its ongoing Omega quantum chipset manufacturing with GlobalFoundries.

1 week ago | hpcwire.com | Andrew Jolly

April 15, 2025 — The Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation (CAII) at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, in collaboration with the Personalized Nutrition Initiative at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, is developing a mobile application that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze an individual’s nutritional intake and organizes it into a holistic perspective for better health outcomes.

1 week ago | hpcwire.com | Andrew Jolly

CALGARY, Alberta, April 15, 2025 — CoolIT Systems has announced the CHx2000, a new row-based coolant distribution unit (CDU) offering up to 2 megawatts of liquid cooling capacity. The CHx2000 builds on the March 2025 release of the CHx1500 and delivers higher flow rates and pressure within the same 750x1200mm rack footprint.

1 week ago | hpcwire.com | John Russell

Brace for a deluge of all things quantum today as the third World Quantum Day takes place around the world. The date April 14, was selected because4/14 is close to first three numbers of Planck’s constant: 4.1356677×10−15 eV⋅s, which is the fundamental constant governing quantum physics. Broadly-speaking, there is no central coordination; instead there is a wide variety of events conducted worldwide by governments, academia, and prominent laboratories.

1 week ago | hpcwire.com | Andrew Jolly

SANTA CLARA, Calif., SAN JOSE, Calif., and MENLO PARK, Calif., April 14, 2025 — Intel Corporation today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell 51% of its Altera business to Silver Lake, a global leader in technology investing. The transaction, which values Altera at $8.75 billion, establishes Altera’s operational independence and makes it the largest pure-play FPGA (field programmable gate array) semiconductor solutions company.