11/26/2023 What I Read Last Week
#DigitalInfrastructure news: Skybox, Equinix, Microsoft, Arm, World Radio communication Conference
Weekly Edition of curated news about Digital Infrastructure
[Link] Skybox Plans 110 Acre Campus South of Dallas. As the ninth campus in the Texas market, the new 300-megawatt project will have Skybox partner with developer Bandera Ventures and Principal Asset Management.
[Link] Equinix EQIX 0.00%↑ to launch SL4: Seoul IBX data center in Q1 2024. The new facility will be inside of SL2x, an upcoming xScale hyperscale data center.
[Link] Accelerating QCaaS Through Ecosystem Partnerships. A really nice article and video from Equinix on Quantum Computing as a Service (QCaaS) and how companies have utilized Platform Equinix to deploy in or near strategic data center locations.
[Link] Microsoft plans a 6th data center in West Des Moines. The proposed data center will be on a 103 acre plot, just west of their third campus in the area (project Osmium), in West Des Moines. Data centers 4 and 5 at the other West Des Moines campuses are currently under construction.
[Link] Meeting last week for the World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-23) in Dubai: Earth Stations in Motion (ESIMs), Direct-to-Device (D2D), and High Altitude Platform Stations (HAPS). ESIMs are essential for providing broadband services to moving targets across land, sea, and air, and discussions are centered around the potential use of ESIMs in the Ku-band and the Ka-band for Non-Geostationary Orbit (NGSO)-powered ESIMs. D2D connectivity, which allows satellite connectivity to smartphones, is also being discussed, with a focus on expanding and enhancing this application in the 2023-2027 study cycle, particularly in spectrum below 3 GHz. Additionally, the conference is considering the use of high altitude platform stations (HIBS) as IMT base stations, which could provide mobile connectivity in rural or remote areas and during disasters, potentially creating new business models and offerings.
[Link] Arm extends Cortex-M portfolio to bring AI to the smallest endpoint devices. Arm announced the Cortex-M52, designed for AIoT applications that require a boost in digital signal processing (DSP) and ML performance without the cost overhead of dedicated DSP and ML accelerators. Cortex-M52 will unlock the potential for delivering ML on embedded computing solutions at lower price points than is possible today. Earlier in the month Arm made an investment in Raspberry Pi Ltd.
🤯 A new publication from Opto-Electronic Science: Multi-synaptic photonic SNN (spiking neural networks) based on a DFB-SA (distributed feedback semiconductor laser chip containing a saturable absorption) chip.
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