Supermicro denies that its offices were raided by Taiwanese authorities in Nvidia GPU smuggling case — company says that it coordinated with the police and provided access to investigated employees’ workstations and gadgets
 Supermicro denies that its offices were raided by Taiwanese authorities in Nvidia GPU smuggling case — company says that it coordinated with the police and provided access to investigated employees’ workstations and gadgets

The company insists that it’s cooperating with Taiwanese authorities and has voluntarily provided access to its premises. It also confirmed with the police that it’s the individual, not the institution, that is being looked into with regard to the smuggling cases.

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Supermicro denies that its offices were raided by Taiwanese authorities in Nvidia GPU smuggling case — company says that it coordinated with the police and provided access to investigated employees’ workstations and gadgets
 Supermicro denies that its offices were raided by Taiwanese authorities in Nvidia GPU smuggling case — company says that it coordinated with the police and provided access to investigated employees’ workstations and gadgets

The company insists that it’s cooperating with Taiwanese authorities and has voluntarily provided access to its premises. It also confirmed with the police that it’s the individual, not the institution, that is being looked into with regard to the smuggling cases.

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Arm servers capture over 45% of data center market revenue — GPU clusters and high-end AI infrastructure fuel a tectonic shift away from x86
 Arm servers capture over 45% of data center market revenue — GPU clusters and high-end AI infrastructure fuel a tectonic shift away from x86

Arm-based servers accounted for nearly half of server revenue in Q1 2026, challenging x86. But in the coming years, they might catch up unit wise as well.

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Tesco UK supermarket chain removes 40,000 servers from VMware infrastructure — mass exodus continues due to Broadcom’s aggressive subscription model

Tesco UK supermarket chain moves 40,000 servers off of VMWare infrastructure — mass exodus continues thanks to Broadcom’s pricing shenanigans
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Amazon says its data centers consume only 0.075% of the water Americans use for watering their lawns and gardens — company also boasts of its improvements in water efficiency

Amazon says that it uses 2.5 billion gallons of water annually for data center cooling but compares it to the 3.3 trillion gallons of water used for watering lawns and gardens in the U.S. every year.
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Researchers recycle old phones and cluster them into ‘computing platforms’ that operate as a low-cost data center — says processors on modern smartphones deliver higher single-core performance than comparable multicore servers

A team of researchers from UC San Diego found that ‘old’ smartphones from 2023 could be combined to build a server capable of running apps locally, instead of relying on cloud servers located on a distant site.
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Nashville Zoo pushes back on 1.6-acre data center build near animal habitats — Zoo says it planned to use lot for education and conservation center

The Nashville Zoo is pushing back on a proposed data center build, which would place servers in proximity with animal habitats.
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Astera Labs showcases 320-lane PCIe 6.0 switch for vendor-agnostic scaling in data centers — up to 80 accelerators can be scaled up using PCIe alone

Astera Labs has shown off the Scorpio X-Series 320-lane PCIe switch that promises to enable vendor-agnostic scale-up capability for AI infrastructure and disaggregated data center infrastructure.
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Supermicro shows off Vera Rubin NVL72 rack with all-new type of coolant — company claims coolant offers 1,000 times higher electrical impedance over standard cooling

Supermicro demonstrates upcoming servers based on AMD’s EPYC ‘Venice’ CPUs, MI450 accelerators, and Nvidia’s Vera Rubin-based solutions.
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Nvidia offers restricted access to Vera CPU in first round of Linux benchmarks – 88-core monster competes with or beats Epyc and Xeon in selected tests

NVIDIA’s new server CPU doesn’t win outright in most tests, but it’s running very close to AMD’s EPYC, which is incredible for a first-generation custom server core from NVIDIA.
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