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LITEON Technology is moving deeper into the physical infrastructure behind AI computing. The Taiwan-based power-electronics company plans to acquire roughly 25% of Warsaw-based DCX Liquid Cooling Systems in a transaction valued at about $176 million, combining rack-level power delivery with direct liquid cooling for high-density AI and HPC systems. The company says the transaction is…
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Meta unveiled Muse Charm at Connect 2026, giving its new personal AI agent a dedicated pocket-sized device alongside AI glasses and a rapidly expanding connector ecosystem.
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Apple’s new M5 Ultra Mac Studio can scale local AI across Thunderbolt 5 and RDMA, with four Macs demonstrated running a trillion-parameter model while offering up to 512GB unified memory per system.
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Aeva and LG Innotek are moving FMCW 4D lidar toward production, with Omni robot sensors targeted for 2027 and Atlas Ultra automotive lidar targeted for 2028.
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Nokia’s lunar 4G/LTE hardware reached the Moon aboard Intuitive Machines’ Athena lander. Here is how the network was designed and what happened to the planned surface demonstration.
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Apptronik CEO Jeff Cardenas says U.S. humanoid robotics needs a stronger domestic supply chain for gears, actuators and other critical hardware.
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Ambarella is separating its low-power AI engine from the rest of its system-on-chip architecture. The new X7 is the company’s first standalone CVflow accelerator, built to add modern AI inference to existing Arm and x86 systems without forcing manufacturers to redesign the host platform. The company says X7 operates inside a 2-to-5-watt power envelope in…
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Skild AI says its humanoid learned soccer through more than 140 simulated years of self-play in NVIDIA Isaac Sim before the policy transferred to a physical robot.
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AI racks are becoming a fiber-management problem as much as a compute problem. Molex has introduced VersaBeam Mini, a new 16-fiber expanded-beam optical connector designed to pack substantially more optical connectivity into the shrinking front-panel and backplane space around next-generation AI switches and accelerators. The company says the connector measures just 3.5 × 9 mm…
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Applied Digital has ended months of uncertainty around the location of its fifth AI Factory campus, confirming that Delta Forge 2 will be built near Brookwood in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. The newly disclosed location turns a previously anonymous 210 MW lease into a specific $3.2 billion Alabama infrastructure project. Local reporting says the confirmation follows…
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Micron demonstrates a 512GB DDR5 RDIMM at up to 9,200 MT/s, with AMD and Intel validating the ultra-dense server memory module.
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WhiteFiber has commercially launched Continuum, a cross-data-center architecture designed to make GPU infrastructure in two physically separate facilities operate as one logical AI supercluster. The company says the design links two HITRUST-certified QTS facilities 83 kilometers apart over 12 Zayo dark-fiber strands, with a target aggregate bandwidth of 136 Tbps and 0.9 milliseconds of round-trip…
