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Marvell Inks $5.5B Celestial AI Deal to Break Memory Wall
Marvell is inking a deal for optical interconnect startup Celestial AI in a massive bet that the industry has shifted from being compute-constrained to bandwidth-constrained.
Using the Power of Micro Grids to Feed AI’s Insatiable Appetite
As AI training pushes data centers to unprecedented power densities, researchers reveal an affordable solution that lets computing thrive on fluctuating renewable energy.
8 Ways AI Will Rewrite Data Center Infrastructure in 2026
In Part 1 of Voice of Innovation Matty Bakkeren’s 2026 predictions series, he explores how AI, power, cooling, and supply chains are reshaping data center infrastructure for a utility-scale future.
The AI Divide in 2026: Economic Wildfire and an Information Elite
As up to 10 million jobs disappear and quality content moves behind paywalls, the question isn’t if AI will reshape society. It’s whether 2026 is the year we’ll control the burn or watch it spread.
Castrol Offers a Fluid Fix for AI’s Overheating Data Centers
New liquid cooling solutions have created a critical new system for data centers, and the company's “magic dust” additive packages are proving essential to keep AI running.
From Intel To Machani Robotics: Niv Sundaram On Human-First AI
Intel veteran and Machani Robotics CSO/CTO Niv Sundaram, one of TechArena’s newest voices of innovation, talks emotionally intelligent AI, companion humanoids, and why real innovation starts and ends with human wellbeing.
Tejas Chopra on Building for Impact
In this Q&A, TechArena Voice of Innovation Tejas Chopra (Netflix) explores AI reliability, first-principles thinking, and how human creativity shapes technology that truly lasts.
WEKA: Make Tokens Flow with Memory-Like Storage
Storage architecture becomes the invisible force determining whether AI deployments, now rapidly moving beyond pilot projects, generate profit or burn cash on throttled tokens.
The Network Revolution: Cornelis Tackles AI’s Efficiency Crisis
While enterprises pour resources into more GPUs, up to 30% of that computing power sits idle waiting for data. The solution isn't more hardware; it's smarter network architecture.
Scality and Solidigm Reshape Storage Protection in the AI Era
Converging forces, including affordable SSDs, ransomware requiring fast restoration capabilities, and AI workloads needing assured data integrity, are redefining protection strategies at unprecedented scale.
Banani Mohapatra on AI with Purpose
From analytics to AI leadership, TechArena Voice of Innovation Banani Mohapatra (Walmart) shares how experimentation, ethics, and human creativity shape the next era of data-driven innovation.
Memory Matters: CXL 2.0 Strategies
CXL 2.0 unlocks pooled, tiered, and elastic memory so enterprises add capacity without blowing budgets—feeding AI and data-heavy apps with near-DRAM performance on Xeon 6 platforms.
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Podcasts
Hybrid AI at Scale: Celestica’s Playbook
From AI Infra Summit, Celestica’s Matt Roman unpacks the shift to hybrid and on-prem AI, why sovereignty/security matter, and how silicon, power, cooling, and racks come together to deliver scalable AI infrastructure.
AI-Driven Chip Design with Synopsys
Allyson Klein talks with Synopsys’ Anand Thiruvengadam on how agentic AI is reshaping chip design to meet extreme performance, time-to-market, and workforce challenges.
MLCommons: Setting the Standard for AI Performance
From storage to automotive, MLPerf is evolving with industry needs. Hear David Kanter explain how community-driven benchmarking is enabling reliable and scalable AI deployment.
Solidigm on Building Future-Ready AI Storage
Solidigm’s Ace Stryker joins Allyson Klein and Jeniece Wnorowski on Data Insights to explore how partnerships and innovation are reshaping storage for the AI era.
Iceotope’s Sustainable Cooling Vision for the AI Era
With sustainability at the core, Iceotope is pioneering liquid cooling solutions that reduce environmental impact while meeting the demands of AI workloads at scale.
AI Infra 2025: David Glick on Building Walmart’s Future with AI
In this episode of In the Arena, David Glick, SVP at Walmart, shares how one of the world’s largest enterprises is fostering rapid AI innovation and empowering engineers to transform retail.
Inside Runpod’s GPU Cloud for Long-Running AI Agents
Runpod head of engineering Brennen Smith joins a Data Insights episode to unpack GPU-dense clouds, hidden storage bottlenecks, and a “universal orchestrator” for long-running AI agents at scale.
Cornelis Networks & AMD on Scaling AI Without the Chaos
From CPU orchestration to scaling efficiency in networks, leaders reveal how to assess your use case, leverage existing infrastructure, and productize AI instead of just experimenting.
Cornelis and OCP Examine Why AI Infrastructure Must Evolve
From the OCP Global Summit, hear why 50% GPU utilization is a “civilization-level” problem, and why open standards are key to unlocking underutilized compute capacity.
How Axelera Scales Inference From Edge to Data Center
In the Arena: Allyson Klein with Axelera CMO Alexis Crowell on inference-first AI silicon, a customer-driven SDK, and what recent tapeouts reveal about the roadmap.
Data Insights: AI in Healthcare with Dr. Rohith Vangalla
In this episode of Data Insights, host Allyson Klein and co-host Jeniece Wnorowski sit down with Dr. Rohith Vangalla of Optum to discuss the future of AI in healthcare.
Metrum AI’s Steen Graham on Multi-Agent AI and Smarter Storage
From OCP Summit, Metrum AI CEO Steen Graham unpacks multi-agent infrastructure, SSD-accelerated RAG, and the memory-to-storage shift—plus a 2026 roadmap to boost GPU utilization, uptime, and time-to-value.
