02/25/2024 What I Read Last Week
#DigitalInfrastructure news: Submarine Cable Map, DigitalBridge, BrainChip, Intel, IonQ
Weekly Edition of curated news about Digital Infrastructure
[Link] The 2024 Submarine Cable Map is out!! I always enjoy looking around in this awesome map. Telegeography says that between 2023 and 2025, a new cable boom valued at a record $10 billion will bring an estimated 78 systems online measuring over 300,000 kilometers in length.
[Link] DigitalBridge reports fourth quarter and full year 2023 financial results. Assets under management rose to $80.2 billion in the fourth quarter 2023, versus $52.8 billion a year ago. The company says they own over 190 data centers, in 80+ global markets. They also said they expect 2024 to be a record year for data center leasing from key logos like Microsoft, NVIDIA, Amazon, and Meta.
[Link] BrainChip will accept pre-orders of its recently announced Akida Edge AI Box. The Akida-powered Edge AI box is expected to help customers accelerate high-performance AI applications at the Edge in challenging environments where energy efficiency is essential and cloud connectivity is not guaranteed.
[Link] Intel launched Intel Foundry as a more sustainable systems foundry business designed for the AI era. Intel Foundry unveiled a new roadmap featuring Intel 14A process technology, and Microsoft has chosen a chip design it plans to produce on the Intel 18A process.
[Link] NEC Australia and D-Wave are partnering to release two new quantum services to the Australian market, further enhancing their quantum computing offering and options for Australia’s commercial sector, federal and state governments, and academia.
[Link] IonQ announced it has generated photons entangled with ions repeatedly and reproducibly, creating a quantum state which allows future quantum systems to communicate and transfer information between each other.
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