Qualcomm Reportedly Lands Major ByteDance Chip Deal For AI Data Centers by Zak Killian — Wednesday, May 27, 2026, 02:20 PM EDT Qualcomm Inc. has reportedly secured a multi-million unit agreement with TikTok parent ByteDance to supply custom artificial intelligence chips for its data centers. …
… The transition to orbital compute offers a potential solution to the environmental and logistical constraints of ground-based data centers. …
… Built at NASA's Ames Research Center, Aeolus consists of four specialized instruments, including the Doppler Wind and Temperature Sounder and a Thermal Limb Sounder. …
… Somewhat ironically, it will also be competing with NVIDIA as it dives deeper into homegrown data center chips as part of its $5 billion bet PDF . Tags: data center , mediatek , AI Paul Lilly Paul is a seasoned geek who cut this teeth on the Commodore 64. …
OpenAI Seeks $250 Billion NVIDIA Guarantee For Ohio Data Center by Paul Lilly — Monday, July 27, 2026, 09:56 AM EDT NVIDIA is reportedly in negotiations to provide in the neighborhood of $250 billion in financial guarantees to help OpenAI secure a 10-gigawatt AI data center campus in southern Ohio. …
… Historically, Apple has guarded its ecosystem by keeping data processing within its own custom-built data centers. …
… For OpenAI, the 20-year lease at the PORTS-Pike facility marks its first directly leased data center campus. …
… Until now, training and fine-tuning large AI models meant spinning up Linux-based infrastructure in a data center. …
… Together, we will codevelop the next generation of memory for AI factories and support the accelerating global expansion of AI infrastructure—from frontier model training to agentic and physical AI." NVIDIA employs an assortment of memory types on its various product offerings spaning both the data… …
… One of NVIDIA's goals with this newly formed alliance is to create dedicated, large-scale credit pools at competitive rates so customers can buy NVIDIA hardware and build out data centers without burning through their own cash reserves. …