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Recent reporting, analysis and explainers from the Computing desk.
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AMD says Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s upcoming Compute E7 instances will use 6th Gen AMD EPYC processors. AMD Pensando data processing units will also underpin Oracle Acceleron converged network cards for OCI instances powered by AMD CPUs and GPUs.
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NVIDIA and Oracle say Vera Rubin NVL72 systems and NVIDIA Vera CPUs are generally available on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The companies also plan a multi-gigawatt expansion and an eight-GPU Rubin system.
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Kazakhtelecom has deployed 880 NVIDIA GPUs in Astana and Almaty, while Firebird is building an AI data-centre project and has secured a U.S. export licence covering 45,000 Grace Blackwell GPUs. The announced plans include a commercial launch target in 2027 and a possible second phase.
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ASUS says its two NVIDIA HGX Rubin NVL8 server designs are planned for launch in Q4 2026. The company also plans to use NVIDIA DSX Sim Blueprint to help simulate AI-factory infrastructure before deployment.
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NVIDIA says researchers used JUPITER, Europe’s first exascale supercomputer, to run a 104-qubit simulation of magic-state cultivation under realistic hardware noise. The work models a quantum processor; it is not a 104-qubit quantum machine.
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At the 2026 OCP Global Summit, AMD said its Helios AI racks are ramping production, with systems installed at four named customers. The company also said Helion rack configurations for agentic AI are under development and planned for November 2026.
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NVIDIA says its DGX Spark will be available in a 64GB unified-memory configuration from six manufacturer partners, starting at $4,999 on Oct. 23. Two units can be clustered to provide 128GB of memory for larger local AI workloads.
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Lenovo has announced the ThinkAgile VX850 V4, new infrastructure deployment services and expanded pre-validated solutions for virtualized and hybrid-cloud environments. The portfolio is designed to help enterprises modernize existing systems while preparing infrastructure for AI and cloud-native workloads.
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AMD says its 6th Gen EPYC 9006 “Venice” server CPU portfolio is designed for the varied CPU workloads created by agentic AI systems. The company reports performance gains across enterprise, cloud-native and high-performance computing tests, while identifying several figures as preliminary estimates.
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NVIDIA has expanded its open-source CUDA-Q platform with CUDA-Q Logical, an orchestration layer for designing fault-tolerant quantum-computing systems. The platform also now includes a reference implementation of Sandia National Laboratories’ QUOPS benchmark.
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At Lenovo Innovation World during IFA 2026, Lenovo announced new hybrid-AI products and concepts spanning personal devices, enterprise hardware, security tools and Motorola products, while expanding Qira to more eligible devices and services.
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Samsung has added a more affordable 14-inch Galaxy Book6 with Intel Core Series 3 processors, a claimed battery life of up to 25 hours and connected Galaxy features; India pricing has not been confirmed in the global announcement.
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Qualcomm has introduced Dragonwing Q-2390 and IQ-2390 processors for commercial, consumer and industrial edge systems, combining CPU, GPU, AI acceleration, vision, networking and a RISC-V microcontroller on one platform.