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Join Shahin Khan and Doug Black, insideHPC’s editor-in-chief, in their weekly discussion of key technology trends that drive high performance computing and artificial intelligence.
Podcasts
HPC News Bytes – 20250310
– TSMC $100B investment in Arizona Factories
– EuroHPC Project DARE using RISC-V
– Jülich Hybrid Supercomputer with D-Wave
– Quantum Computing Stock Price Volatility
– Chinese Quantum Computer Betters Google’s Willow
– Supercomputing Asia 2025 (SCA25) held this week in Singapore
@HPCpodcast-99: Dr. Handel Jones on Geopolitics of Technology – In Depth
Dr. Handel Jones, author of the book When AI Rules the World: China, the U.S., and the Race to Control a Smart Planet, and CEO of International Business Strategies, Inc. joins us again to discuss the geopolitics of technology. Dr. Jones was a specia; guest of this podcast in episode 48 in January 2023. Fast moving technologies matched with big changes in global politics and policy creates a potent mix. So we were delighted to have the opportunity to revisit many of the topics we covered last time and explore new topics.
HPC News Bytes – 20250303
– Government layoffs funding disruptions cause uncertainty and concern for scientific leadership
– Cat Qubits: AWS Ocelot, Alice and Bob
– ASIC vs GPUs vs Accelerators
@HPCpodcast-98: Hyperion Research on HPC, AI, Quantum – In Depth
We are delighted to have as special guests today three of the top analysts in the HPC, AI, Cloud, and Quantum fields, representing the industry analyst firm Hyperion Research. Earl Joseph is Hyperion CEO with oversight for Hyperion’s overall research and consulting efforts along with the firm’s HPC User Forum, which conducts conferences in the US and around the world throughout the year, Mark Nossokoff, Research Director and Lead Analyst for Storage and Interconnects and Cloud, and Bob Sorensen, Senior VP of Research, who focuses on Exascale, Supercomputing, Quantum, and other future technologies.
Join us for an In Depth discussion of the current state and future trends in HPC, AI, Quantum, Cloud Computing, Exascale, Storage, Interconnects and Optical I/O, and Liquid Cooling.
HPC News Bytes – 20250224
– New in-house-manufactured Microsoft QPU: Majorana 1
– DARPA US2QC program
– (Funding) and harnessing idle GPUs anywhere on the internet
– France’s CEA advances in fusion energy research
HPC News Bytes – 20250217
– Arm to sell its own CPU? Meta as first customer?
– Big AI, Big Power, Big Chill… Big Pollution?
– Intel’s fate puts national security and market forces into focus
– Europe falls in-line to avid falling behind in AI
– GE Aerospace gains access to exascale power via DOE INCITE program
HPC News Bytes – 20250210
– “Big AI” land grab as private money dwarfs public funds
– Nuclear power for data centers
– New European-origin quantum system in Spain
– Softbank eyes Ampere
@HPCpodcast-97: Addison Snell on HPC, AI, Hyperscalers – In Depth
In this In-Depth feature of the @HPDpodcast, Addison Snell, co-founder and CEO of Intersect360 joins Shahin and Doug as they discuss a wide range of topics in HPC, AI, and Quantum Computing. They touch on HPC-AI market size, the impact of hyperscalers on AI, the future of leadership computing facilities (exascale.next), AI nationalism, DeepSeek AI, Nvidia’s leadership and challenges, the state of quantum computing, AI storage, optical computing and interconnects, and of course, Addison’s crossword puzzles features in The New York Times and Wall Street Journal! Make sure, especially, to look up the crossword puzzle in the Sunday Times of October, 30th, 2022.
HPC News Bytes – 20250203
– DeepSeek, 1+5 lessons
– Rack Scale Arch redux, Intel GPU roadmap change
– LANL and OpenAI, national security apps, fully on-prem?
– Google and Kairos Power, Small Modular (nuclear) Reactors

Analyst Roundtable: Chips, AI, Search, Quantum, Bitcoin, Fusion – OXD26
Analyst roundtable with Adrian Cockcroft, Stephen Perrenod, Chris Kruell, and Shahin Khan covering recent advances in, and impacts of: Chips, AI, Search, Quantum Computing, Bitcoin, and Fusion energy.