06/30/2024 What I Read Last Week
#DigitalInfrastructure news: Link, Infinera, Quantum computing, Optical records
Weekly Edition of curated news about Digital Infrastructure
[Link] Switch announced the completion of two consecutive, asset-backed securities transactions totaling $1.7 billion: $752 million and a second issuance of $940.3 million. Out of all the data center tours I have been on over the years I think Switch Las Vegas was my favorite. They run remarkable facilities that are designed and engineered to a high standard.
[Link] Nokia to acquire optical networking company Infinera for $2.3 billion. According to a recent annual report, San Jose-based Infinera had over $1.6 billion in revenue, 1,480 patents, and listed 9 of the top 10 tier 1 operators as customers.
[Link] Startup AI chip company Etched.ai announced it has secured a $120 million round led by Positive Sum and Primary Venture Partners. San Francisco-based Etched has created a transformer-specialized AI chip called Sohu, which is used to train and deploy large language models that are the underpinning of generative AI.
[Link] Quantum Machines announced the opening of the Israeli Quantum Computing Center (IQCC) will serve the quantum computing industry and academic community in Israel and around the world. The IQCC is a state-of-the-art quantum and HPC center that uniquely integrates the power of quantum and classical computing resources. It is the first in the world to house multiple co-located quantum computers of different qubit types, all utilizing the NVIDIA DGX Quantum system.
[Link] Bechtel breaks ground on $4 billion sodium-cooled nuclear reactor for TerraPower.
[Link] At the recent Optical Fiber Communication Conference, Intel’s Integrated Photonics Solutions (IPS) Group demonstrated the first-ever fully integrated optical compute interconnect (OCI) chiplet co-packaged with an Intel CPU and running live data. This first OCI chiplet is designed to support 64 channels of 32 gigabits per second (Gbps) data transmission in each direction on up to 100 meters of fiber optics and is expected to address AI infrastructure’s growing demands for higher bandwidth, lower power consumption and longer reach.
[Link] World Record 402 Tb/s Transmission. An international joint research team led by the Photonic Network Laboratory of the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology demonstrated a record-breaking aggregate optical transmission bandwidth of 37.6 THz to enable a new data-rate record of 402 terabits per second in a standard commercially available optical fiber.
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