Nvidia and Meta plan millions of additional artificial intelligence GPUs

Nvidia and Meta are reportedly planning to expand their use of graphics processors for artificial intelligence workloads by ordering millions of additional chips, a shift that could reshape the traditional server CPU market. The move highlights growing competition for Intel and AMD in data center infrastructure as demand for accelerated computing surges.

Leap 71s noyron model targets automated engineering design

Leap 71’s noyron system serves as a foundational computational model that encodes expert engineering knowledge, physics and manufacturing rules to automatically generate and evaluate designs. It underpins specialized models for rockets, electromagnetic systems and heat exchangers while continuously improving through feedback from real-world use.

Apple plans MacBook Ultra with OLED touchscreen and dynamic island

Apple is preparing a new high-end MacBook, potentially called MacBook Ultra, that introduces an OLED touchscreen and a dynamic island while sitting above the latest M5-based MacBook Pro models. The device marks a major shift in Apple’s stance on touchscreens in laptops as it seeks to stay competitive in a changing market.

Fujitsu debuts ‘Monaka’ Armv9 CPU sample with 3.5D packaging

Fujitsu has unveiled early silicon and an engineering sample of its ‘Monaka’ Armv9 CPU, built on TSMC’s 2 nm node and Broadcom’s 3.5D XDSiP packaging, ahead of a planned 2027 launch. The 144 core design targets Artificial Intelligence inference, simulation, and large scale data processing workloads.

ABB and NVIDIA bring industrial-grade physical artificial intelligence to factory robotics

ABB Robotics is integrating NVIDIA Omniverse into its RobotStudio suite to deliver physically accurate simulation for industrial robots, aiming to close the long-standing sim-to-real gap and cut deployment time and cost. Early pilots with Foxconn and Workr highlight how synthetic data and unified workflows could accelerate automation in complex manufacturing environments.