IBM (NYSE: IBM) today unveiled a new generation of IBM FlashSystem, co-run by agentic AI, designed to support autonomous storage. IBM said the new products offer resilience through ….
HPC News Bytes 20260126: Intel and Other Chip Stocks in Spotlight, Industry-Wide Supply Shortage, Micron Build-Up in Upstate New York, US Chip Investments by Region
January 26, 2026 by
Good late January morning to you! The HPC-AI industry threw its weight around last week in its usual fashion, here’s a ….
IBM in $11B Acquisition of Confluent
December 8, 2025 by
ARMONK, N.Y. and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Dec. 8, 2025 — IBM (NYSE: IBM) and data streaming company Confluent today announced they have entered into an agreement under which IBM will acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Confluent for $31 per share, representing an enterprise value of $11 billion. Confluent provides an […]
HPC News Bytes 20251117: SC25 Starts!, Conflicting Tales of China AI Chip Bans, Quantum in the News, NSF Supercomputing Centers Hit 40
November 17, 2025 by
A happy Supercomputing Conference week to you from St. Louis! Here’s a fast (9:50) rundown of recent HPC and AI developments: China feeling the bite of AI chip export ….
IBM Collaborates Across Four National Quantum Innovation Centers for Quantum-Centric Supercomputing
November 4, 2025 by
Nov. 4, 2025 — Today, the United States Department of Energy announced the continued funding of the National Quantum Information Science Research Centers (NQISRCs). IBM released the following statement: We applaud the DoE for continuing to promote quantum science in the United States, and we are committed to the success of these centers and accelerating […]
IBM and Groq Partner on Enterprise AI Deployment on watsonx Orchestrate
October 21, 2025 by
ARMONK, N.Y. and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 20, 2025 — IBM and Groq today announced a partnership to provide access to Groq’s AI inference technology, GroqCloud, on watsonx Orchestrate. The partnership is intended to provide high-speed AI inference capabilities at a cost that helps accelerate agentic AI deployment. As part of the partnership, Groq and IBM plan to integrate […]
IBM in OEM Partnership with Cockroach Labs
October 8, 2025 by
NEW YORK, Oct. 7, 2025 — Cockroach Labs, the company behind the distributed SQL database CockroachDB, today announced an OEM partnership with IBM to bring CockroachDB PostgreSQL for IBM to market. This collaboration gives enterprises a trusted path to modernize mission-critical applications with a cloud-native PostgreSQL database engineered for active-active business continuity across hybrid environments—including IBM LinuxONE, Linux […]
IBM AI Development Environment Combining with Anthropic Claude LLM’s
October 7, 2025 by
IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Anthropic today announced a partnership for development of enterprise-ready AI by combining Anthropic’s Claude family of large language models into IBM’s software portfolio. The companies said ….
HSBC Reports on Quantum-Enabled Algorithmic Trading with IBM
September 26, 2025 by
25 September 2025 — British bank and financial services company HSBC announced what it said is the world’s first-known empirical evidence of the potential value of current quantum computers for algorithmic bond trading. Working with a team from IBM, HSBC leveraged an approach that utilized quantum and classical computing resources to deliver up to a […]
HPC News Bytes 20250901: MIT Quantum Report, AMD+IBM=HPC+Quantum, Meta’s Data-Center-in-a-Tent, NVIDIA Earnings, Hot Chips 2025
September 1, 2025 by
Happy first day of September to you! It’s been an interesting week in the world of HPC-AI, here’s a rapid (8:10) romp through recent developments, including ….
