Nvidia and Oracle announced general availability of Nvidia's Vera Rubin NVL72 racks and standalone Vera CPU instances on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Superclusters at Oracle AI World. The move follows Google Cloud's similar Vera Rubin availability announcement last week. Separately, independent benchmarks on a Vera server (not run on OCI hardware) showed significantly higher memory bandwidth than a dual Xeon 6 system.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-28
IT vendor Core 4 Solutions has put a 300-rack AI compute cluster up for sale on eBay for $59.7 million. The system includes 9,600 Nvidia A100 40GB accelerators and 4,200 AMD EPYC Rome 64-core processors, totaling 268,800 CPU cores and roughly 1.4 petabytes of memory, with shipping options including free FedEx Ground delivery.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-28
Palit, which owns the Galax GPU brand, issued a statement denying reports that it was shutting down the Galax factory due to insufficient RTX 5000-series chip supply from Nvidia. The company said Galax continues normal operations, no manufacturing facilities have closed, and products remain available domestically and internationally. The claim originated from a Spanish outlet citing industry sources.
techspot.com
· 2026-10-28
SK Hynix reported third-quarter revenue of 104.62 trillion won and operating profit of 83.33 trillion won, both well above analyst estimates compiled by LSEG. Revenue grew 327.9% and operating profit 632.1% from a year earlier, driven largely by sales of high-bandwidth memory chips used in AI systems. The results follow an August announcement of a 40 trillion won share buyback and cancellation plan alongside a higher shareholder return target.
cnbc.com
· 2026-10-27
Survival LLM is a free, open-source application that runs an AI assistant and a large offline reference library directly on a user's computer, requiring internet access only for initial setup. The tool answers emergency-related questions—such as water purification or burn treatment—by citing passages from included sources like FEMA guidance, CDC materials, survival manuals and roughly 930,000 Wikipedia articles. It automatically selects an AI model sized to the user's available memory, ranging from an 80GB model for high-memory Macs to a 6GB model for lower-spec machines.
brangus.io
· 2026-10-27
TrendForce, citing supply chain sources, reports that TSMC is considering raising prices for its CoWoS advanced packaging technology by up to 20%. The move reflects tight capacity for packaging AI chips, driven by demand for Nvidia's Blackwell and upcoming Rubin GPUs, along with longer equipment lead times. TSMC has not confirmed the report.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-27
At GTC Berlin on October 21, Nvidia announced a series of multi-billion-dollar agreements with substrate, packaging, testing and optics suppliers including Ibiden, Unimicron, Samsung Electro-Mechanics, SPIL and Amkor. The deals run through 2028 and target steep capacity increases, such as 2.5x dedicated substrate capacity within three years, a 15x expansion in optical engine output by mid-2027, and a 300% rise in interposer wafer capacity by end-2028.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-27
Simplismart, a four-year-old Bengaluru-based startup, raised $14 million in a Series B round led by Dallas Venture Capital, with participation from Nvidia, Accel, Shastra VC, and Micromax. The all-primary round values the company at roughly $100 million and will support its software that helps businesses run AI models more efficiently on existing computing infrastructure.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-10-27
Nvidia announced it will invest $3 billion in Meta, part of a broader $95 billion equity raise Meta disclosed to fund AI infrastructure spending. The raise includes $35 billion in underwritten public offerings and $60 billion via an at-the-market program, with Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom together eyeing up to $5 billion in shares. Nvidia also said Meta will expand its Vera Rubin and Vera CPU deployments and deepen collaboration on Meta's AI agent, Muse.
cnbc.com
· 2026-10-27
Developers have released Linux kernel modules—gpu-unlock, gpu-unlock-ada, and turing-unlock—that rewrite speed-select registers on Nvidia RTX 20-, 30-, and 40-series GPUs before the driver loads, removing a hardware-level cap on FP32-accumulate tensor math that Nvidia normally reserves for workstation cards. Benchmarks show gains ranging from roughly 12% to nearly 2x depending on card and workload, with an RTX 3090 Ti jumping from 87.5 to 157.4 BF16 TFLOPS and an RTX 4090 doubling its raw FP16 instruction rate, though real-world matrix workload gains are smaller.
techspot.com
· 2026-10-27
Nvidia confirmed a $3 billion investment in Meta's stock offering, a day after Meta said it would raise $95 billion (later revised to $97.5 billion) to fund AI spending. The two companies said they will deepen collaboration on Meta's Muse AI models, aiming to improve training and inference performance while cutting running costs. Meta also plans to expand use of Nvidia's Vera Rubin systems, Vera CPUs, Spectrum-X networking and BlueField-4 technology.
techspot.com
· 2026-10-27
Nvidia will invest $3 billion as part of Meta Platforms' equity offering, according to the report. The move accompanies a broader expansion of the two companies' partnership around Meta's AI system Muse.
wsj.com
· 2026-10-27
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