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AMD Challenges Goliath with MI355, Doubles Down on Open Innovation
At Advancing AI, AMD unveils MI355 with 35× gen-over-gen gains and doubles down on open innovation – from ROCm 7 to Helios infrastructure – to challenge NVIDIA’s AI leadership.
Qualcomm to Acquire Alphawave Semi for $2.4B in Data Center Push
The deal marks a strategic move to bolster Qualcomm’s AI and custom silicon capabilities amid challenging competition and the potential start of a wave of AI silicon acquisitions.
WEKA and Nebius Unite to Supercharge AI Workloads with GPUaaS Powerhouse
A new partnership combines WEKA’s AI-native storage with Nebius’ GPUaaS platform to accelerate model training, inference, and innovation with microsecond latency and extreme scalability.
AMD Doubles Down on Inference Efficiency with New Acquisitions
As the battle for AI market share continues, AMD’s recent acquisitions signal a strategic move toward optimizing both software and hardware for inference workloads and real-world AI deployment.
OpsRamp Shows Unified IT Operations for Fast Incident Management
The HPE-owned platform combines unified observability, smart alert correlation, and automation to tackle hybrid IT complexity while also working with existing monitoring tools.
MinIO Redefines Object Storage Architecture for Exabyte Scale
AIStor’s stateless, gateway-free design solves legacy storage issues, enabling high-performance object-native infrastructure for exabyte-scale AI and analytics workloads.
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.
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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.
