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Microsoft’s controversial claim that its Majorana chip program will make possible a scalable quantum computer by 2029 has been thrown into new doubt by a scientific paper that questions whether the company has correctly interpreted its own experimental evidence. According to a peer-reviewed paper by Dr. Henry Legg from the University of St Andrews, published this week in Nature , Microsoft’s Topo…

IBM is showing off a fingernail-size silicon chip that promises to deliver more power, more efficiently, in future computing, communications, and infrastructure deployments. The sub-1 nanometer (nm) chip features a transistor architecture at the 0.7 nm, or 7 angstrom node, IBM says. It packs nearly 100 billion transistors, which is almost twice the density of IBM’s 2 nm chip unveiled in 2021. A s…

The acquisition of VMware by Broadcom has caused many enterprise IT leaders to reexamine their infrastructure strategies. For organizations running vSphere 8, the October 2027 end-of-support deadline is rapidly becoming a planning priority. What may appear to be a routine upgrade is driving bigger discussions about cost, flexibility, cloud strategy, and long-term infrastructure direction. Many or…

Qualcomm on Wednesday said that it will spend $3.9 billion to purchase AI-native software platform developer Modular Inc., a move that Qualcomm says will allow it to level the playing field on data centers by creating “a silicon-agnostic compute layer.” The stock-based acquisition “further enables Qualcomm Technologies to deliver a silicon-agnostic compute layer across devices, edge, and data cen…

IBM, its RedHat subsidiary, and Palo Alto Networks are teaming up to help enterprises identify vulnerabilities in open-source software and deploy safeguards against threats, particularly those generated by AI . The joint effort will rely on Palo Alto’s network-based virtual patching technology, which is found in its Prisma security software , and IBM/Red Hat’s Project Lightwell, a software remedi…

A critical Cisco Unified CM vulnerability is now under active exploitation, weeks after the company issued patches warning it could allow attackers to gain root access. Threat intelligence firm Defused reported the exploitation on June 23. The company said it observed the activity over the weekend. “This is currently being exploited from a single source using an unvetted PoC, with genuinely-forma…

AI continues to fuel demand for new networking technology and the vendors that build it. Upscale AI, which emerged from stealth in September 2025 with a $100 million seed round , has raised an additional $190 million in a Series A-1 extension. Total funding now stands at $500 million, and its current valuation is $2 billion. The round was led by Premji Invest and includes new investors Nvidia, Sa…

Last week’s HPE Discover event in Las Vegas marked the first time the annual user conference included the now-fully-absorbed Juniper Networks. Rami Rahim, former CEO of Juniper Networks and current EVP, president and general manager of HPE Networking, took to the main stage for a dedicated networking session after HPE CEO Antonio Neri’s morning keynote . Rahim emphasized the network’s importance …

China has reclaimed the top spot in the global supercomputing race. The debut of China’s LineShine on the 67th edition of the TOP500 rankings ends El Capitan’s run at the top the list and marks the first time a China-based system has led the rankings since Sunway TaihuLight in 2017 . Installed at the National Supercomputing Centre in Shenzhen and built by Shenzhen Cloud Computing Center, LineShin…

More processor coverage on Network World: Intel news and insights | AMD news and insights With its legacy of innovation, Nvidia has become a dominant force in the AI market. Its GPUs have evolved from their gaming roots to power breakthroughs in scientific simulations, data analysis, and machine learning. Follow this page for the latest news, analysis, and features on Nvidia’s advancements and th…

Dell’s new high-end Nvidia-based server is a centerpiece for its integrated AI platform aimed at enterprise customers with major AI infrastructure plans. The Dell PowerEdge XE8812, with its core Nvidia Vera Rubin NVL4 architecture, scales up to 144 GPUs per rack and will be at the heart of the Dell AI Factory with Nvidia preconfigured package of server, storage, networking, and software infrastru…

Nvidia has formally launched the Vera Rubin platform, a combination CPU and GPU platform billed as a major step forward in the convergence of artificial intelligence and high-performance computing (HPC) for scientific research. Announced at the ISC High Performance 2026 conference in Hamburg, the new platform combines Nvidia’s Vera CPUs, Rubin GPUs, networking technologies, and software stack int…

The Bundesliga has long talked about turning “data into devotion,” and now it has an agentic AI companion in its official app that lets fans chat in natural language, access live stats and historical context, and view personalized video highlights—all without leaving the app. Bundesliga is the premier professional soccer league in Germany. It built its new AI companion, called Captain, on AWS and…

A massive credential-compromise campaign dubbed “Fortibleed” has been found to expose tens of thousands of Fortinet devices worldwide, with researchers warning of persistent attacker access to affected enterprise environments. The campaign was first flagged by security researcher Volodymyr Diachenko, who posted on LinkedIn about finding an attacker-controlled list of potentially working FortiGate…

While enterprise IT leaders have spent the past two years focusing AI infrastructure discussions on GPUs, cloud platforms, and data centers, new Cisco research suggests that enterprise networks may not be ready for the next phase of AI adoption. A Cisco and Foundry survey of 3,472 IT and networking leaders across 15 countries found AI is already changing traffic patterns across campus and branch …