Examining Nvidia’s 60 exaflop Vera Rubin POD — how seven chips underpin company’s 40 rack AI factory supercomputer

Nvidia announced seven chips in full production at GTC 2026 on Monday, composing the Vera Rubin platform that the company intends to ship in the second half of this year.

Microsoft expects to commercialize MicroLED datacenter cables by late 2027 — expands Hollow Core Fiber deployment, promising 47% faster data transmission and approximately 33% lower latency

The technology, called MOSAIC, replaces lasers with inexpensive MicroLEDs and uses a fundamentally different architecture to transmit data inside datacenters.

Nvidia launches BlueField-4 STX storage architecture for agentic AI at GTC 2026

Nvidia announced BlueField-4 STX at GTC 2026 on March 16, a modular reference architecture for accelerated storage designed to address the data access bottleneck limiting agentic AI inference.

Global chip supply chain under threat as US-Iran conflict enters third week — Strait of Hormuz blockade is days away from crippling Taiwan’s semiconductor industry

Taiwan imports almost all of its energy and requires large amounts of LNG to sustain its electrical grid. That grid is then used by local chipmakers — like TSMC who is responsible for making most of the world’s high-end ch…

Nvidia’s Nemotron coalition brings eight AI labs together to build open frontier models

“Open models are the lifeblood of innovation and the engine of global participation in the AI revolution,” said Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.

Meta’s new MTIA lineup joins hyperscalers’ unified push for dedicated inferencing chips — companies diversify AI chips in effort to diversify from sole reliance on Nvidia

As Meta introduces its lineup of new AI chips, the company joins other tech giants in diversifying the AI accelerators used for specific workloads, and says that mainstream GPUs built for large-scale pre-training are less …

Nvidia GTC 2026 keynote live blog — Vera Rubin GPUs and CPUs, DLSS 5, and the ‘future of technology’

Nvidia’s GTC 2026 keynote has wrapped, but Tom’s Hardware was on the ground to deliver live updates during CEO Jensen Huang’s two-hour presentation.

Intel’s roadmaps examined — 14A, Nova Lake, Diamond Rapids & AI accelerator push

Intel’s CPU roadmap is unlike any the company has published in recent years, because its manufacturing ambitions and its product launches have to succeed simultaneously.

GTC 2026

GTC 2026 promises a peek at what’s next for AI technology and what Nvidia has in store for the year ahead.