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• May 19, 2026 19 May'26

  As AI costs spiral, Dell pitches return to on-premise datacentres

  With agentic AI driving up public cloud consumption, Dell Technologies is pitching local and hybrid infrastructure to shield enterprises from soaring token costs

• May 12, 2026 12 May'26

  In video games of the future, your AI teammates will actually listen

  Ubisoft executives offer a glimpse into the engineering behind its generative AI middleware, including the use of small language models, prompt optimisation and on-device processing to bring virtual teammates to life

• May 11, 2026 11 May'26

  Inside the global datacentre squeeze

  A projected $800bn datacentre infrastructure investment in APAC alone is clashing with the limits of global power grids, forcing datacentre operators to rethink where and how they build the physical engines of the internet

• April 30, 2026 30 Apr'26

  India aims for the stars with orbital datacentres

  As terrestrial datacentres face severe power and cooling constraints, space-based facilities promise unlimited solar energy and low latency for AI inferencing, provided the industry can overcome challenges

• April 23, 2026 23 Apr'26

  Agentic AI speeds up mainframe modernisation, but human experts remain key

  Agentic AI tools are helping organisations overcome Cobol skills shortages and untangle legacy infrastructure, but successful modernisation still requires an expert in the loop to manage complexity

• April 22, 2026 22 Apr'26

  Google launches Gemini Agent Platform, eighth-generation TPUs

  With more AI agents moving to production, Google Cloud is targeting governance, multi-cloud data architecture and purpose-built silicon to help enterprises orchestrate agentic workflows

• April 06, 2026 06 Apr'26

  Digital Realty CTO on AI tokenomics and datacentre infrastructure

  Chris Sharp talks up the pace of AI silicon innovation, the growth of inferencing workloads, and why boasting about datacentre megawatts misses the point

• April 02, 2026 02 Apr'26

  Net Insight introduces programmable video production network

  Capability designed to make large-scale IP-based live production infrastructures more predictable and controllable, enabling secure and automated IP interconnection without reverting to SDI gateways

• April 02, 2026 02 Apr'26

  Data dive: UK government’s 2030 datacentre capacity targets look shaky

  We look at UK datacentre capacity – current and projected – and find DSIT’s 2030 target for 6GW of AI-capable capacity is currently out of reach, unless operators get a move on

• April 02, 2026 02 Apr'26

  Arm works with IBM to deliver flexibility on mainframe

  The chipmaker has begun collaborating with IBM on a dual architecture for Z series machine

• March 29, 2026 29 Mar'26

  Advancing to the next frontier of AI

  As AI agents move faster than software made for human users, both digital tooling and silicon architecture need to be redesigned to reduce latency and power bottlenecks, according to chief scientists of Nvidia and Google

• March 26, 2026 26 Mar'26

  Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: The bare metal facts

  The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure appears to have more in common with datacentre hosting than with public infrastructure-as-a-service providers

• March 18, 2026 18 Mar'26

  Nvidia workforce to be dominated by AI agents in a decade

  Jensen Huang expects digital workers to vastly outnumber human employees at Nvidia, while also revealing plans to restart mainland China operations and declaring autonomous driving a solved problem

• March 16, 2026 16 Mar'26

  Nvidia expands Vera Rubin platform, details Groq integration

  Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang talks up efforts by the AI technology giant to pave the way for self-evolving, multi-agent systems with the integration of Groq LPUs and a software stack for the OpenClaw agent platform

• March 13, 2026 13 Mar'26

  CityFibre, AllPoints Fibre introduce multi-gigabit FTTP

  Partnership aims to bring together leading networks to simplify wholesale consumption to enable ISPs and MSPs to meet the demands of high-value customers with access to 1.7Gbps and 2.3Gbps FTTP speeds

• March 11, 2026 11 Mar'26

  Neurons over silicon: Singapore plans first biological datacentre

  DayOne and Cortical Labs are bringing ‘wetware’ computing to the city-state, using living neurons grown from stem cells to support the demand for AI while addressing sustainability concerns

• March 05, 2026 05 Mar'26

  Spyware suppliers exploit more zero-days than nation states

  Exploitation of zero-days by commercial surveillance and spyware developers outpaced exploitation by nation-state actors last year, according to a report

• March 02, 2026 02 Mar'26

  Micron opens $2.75bn chip assembly plant in India

  Test and assembly site in Gujarat marks India’s first commercial semiconductor production following multibillion-dollar investments in US and Singapore to meet growing demand for storage and memory chips

• February 19, 2026 19 Feb'26

  Nvidia backs India’s sovereign AI push with gigawatt-scale infrastructure

  Chip giant unveils compute expansion with L&T, Yotta and E2E Networks at the India AI Impact Summit, paving the way for domestic heavyweights to build AI agents and physical AI applications

• February 09, 2026 09 Feb'26

  As space gets crowded, cyber threats from jamming to stalker satellites loom large

  Experts at the inaugural CYSAT Asia in Singapore warn of the urgency of securing space assets amid growing geopolitical tensions and supply chain vulnerabilities

• January 28, 2026 28 Jan'26

  Micron breaks ground on $24bn Singapore wafer fab

  Memory giant presses ahead with its global expansion strategy, adding new NAND flash capacity in Singapore to meet growing demand for memory chips fuelled by the global AI boom

• January 26, 2026 26 Jan'26

  STT GDC launches HVDC testbed to address AI’s power demands

  The FutureGrid Accelerator on Jurong Island will test the use of high-voltage direct current power systems, as traditional alternating current power systems can no longer address the growing energy needs of AI datacentres

• January 12, 2026 12 Jan'26

  Singapore and Japan team up on quantum computing

  The two countries will work together to bridge the gap between quantum research and real-world commercialisation, marking Singapore’s first government-to-government pact dedicated to the technology

• January 06, 2026 06 Jan'26

  Nvidia unveils Vera Rubin architecture to power AI agents

  The AI chip giant has taken the wraps off its latest compute platform designed for test-time scaling and reasoning models, alongside a slew of open source models for robotics and autonomous driving

• December 24, 2025 24 Dec'25

  Top 10 India stories of 2025

  From infrastructure expansion and sovereign AI innovation to regulatory maturity, Computer Weekly recaps the key developments that kept CIOs and technology suppliers across India busy in 2025

• December 19, 2025 19 Dec'25

  BT: UK’s next phase of quantum progress hinges on network build

  UK’s leading network provider reflects on the country’s quantum progress to date, and proposes what needs to happen next as funding and focus shift towards delivery

• December 11, 2025 11 Dec'25

  Interview: Art Hu, global CIO, Lenovo

  The IT chief at the PC, servers and storage supplier is using his experience of rolling out tech internally to boost the growing services ambitions of the Chinese tech giant

• November 26, 2025 26 Nov'25

  AMD pushes for open ecosystem to challenge Cuda dominance

  AMD’s head of AI software discusses the company’s plans to make its ROCm platform ubiquitous, and how it is leveraging open source to democratise access to AI capabilities

• November 18, 2025 18 Nov'25

  Groq commits up to $300m in Australia expansion

  US chip startup Groq plans to invest up to $300m to provide Australian businesses with compute capacity for AI inferencing and help solve issues around data sovereignty for major users like Quantium

• November 14, 2025 14 Nov'25

  Lenovo to power FIFA World Cup 2026

  Lenovo will provide its consumer and enterprise technology capabilities to power the upcoming FIFA World Cup, which has been deemed the most technologically advanced tournament in the game’s history

• November 04, 2025 04 Nov'25

  Unequal access: The digital divide in criminal justice

  Access to expert digital forensic analysis is biased towards the prosecution, says criminal defence

• October 31, 2025 31 Oct'25

  Cyber agencies co-sign Exchange Server security guide

  US and allied cyber agencies team up to try to nudge users to pay more attention to securing Microsoft Exchange Server

• October 24, 2025 24 Oct'25

  AI chip challenger Groq eyes APAC expansion

  Groq’s novel chip architecture that speeds up AI inferencing has attracted a fast-growing developer base as it plans its first datacentre in the Asia-Pacific region

• October 22, 2025 22 Oct'25

  Singapore unveils efforts to govern agentic AI, prepare for post-quantum era

  Guidelines and tools will help organisations in the city-state manage risks from AI agents and prepare for a future where quantum computers could break current encryption

• October 21, 2025 21 Oct'25

  Dell Technologies accelerates AI and digital transformation across the Middle East

  Through strategic partnerships and innovations unveiled at Gitex 2025, Dell is helping UAE organisations harness AI, multi-cloud, and edge computing to drive faster, smarter business transformation

• September 25, 2025 25 Sep'25

  Lenovo targets AI and hybrid cloud to drive APAC growth

  The tech supplier’s infrastructure arm is tapping its partner ecosystem and as-a-service model to help the region’s enterprises move from AI experimentation to delivering tangible business outcomes

• September 21, 2025 21 Sep'25

  NUS supercomputer enters global Top500

  Dubbed Hopper, the supercomputer can perform 25 quadrillion calculations per second and is already fast-tracking research in fields from biomedical engineering to clean energy applications

• September 17, 2025 17 Sep'25

  Heightened global risk pushes interest in data sovereignty

  Survey finds all those questioned have looked at data location, with most recognising the need to plan for data sovereignty or risk severe damage to reputation and customer trust

• September 16, 2025 16 Sep'25

  eEVOS brings GUI-accessible VMware alternative for SMEs

  eEVOS from EuroNAS plays in the same space as ProxMox, but isn’t free. It does, however, offer a graphical UI so customers don’t need to flex the Linux CLI skills to use it

• September 09, 2025 09 Sep'25

  The digital forensics crisis in policing: What’s going wrong?

  Forensics experts say that most crime has a digital footprint, but the police are unable to keep up with the soaring number of devices that require analysis

• September 08, 2025 08 Sep'25

  Dell AI server revenues leap but storage waits on Project Lightning

  During the past quarter, Dell’s datacentre sales went through the roof due to new server and networking products for AI – but storage has not shared the same dynamic

• September 05, 2025 05 Sep'25

  How Metrobank is tapping VMware Cloud Foundation

  The Philippine bank has adopted nearly all of the capabilities in VMware’s private cloud platform to modernise its IT infrastructure while reaping cost savings

• September 01, 2025 01 Sep'25

  Flash drive prices grow quickly while SAS and SATA diverge

  Manufacturers have throttled back production of flash drives to tackle over-supply and it shows in rising prices

• August 20, 2025 20 Aug'25

  India banks on mature-node chips to build semiconductor niche

  India is doubling down on mature-node chips that power cars, healthcare and electronics, using incentives and global supply shifts to make its mark

• August 15, 2025 15 Aug'25

  SK Telecom to build sovereign AI infrastructure

  The South Korean telco is building the Haein Cluster AI infrastructure to support its Petasus AI Cloud service in a bid to meet the demand for AI training and inference within its borders

• August 12, 2025 12 Aug'25

  Macquarie Data Centres to offer Dell-Nvidia AI tech stack

  The Australian datacentre operator will host the Dell AI Factory with Nvidia infrastructure platform in its sovereign facilities to meet growing demand for local, secure and compliant generative AI infrastructure

• July 28, 2025 28 Jul'25

  Kioxia launches 245TB LC9, the biggest flash drive on the market

  Japanese drive maker piles one card on top of another to produce 245.76TB E3.L drive, with lower capacity variants in 2.5in and E3.S formats, and claimed low energy use benefits

• July 22, 2025 22 Jul'25

  Microsoft confirms China link to SharePoint hacks

  Microsoft confirms two known China-nexus threat actors, and one other suspected state-backed hacking group, are exploiting vulnerabilities in SharePoint Server

• July 22, 2025 22 Jul'25

  Hitachi Vantara claims Hitachi iQ the most complete AI stack

  Hitachi Vantara says its approach to storage and AI offers the most comprehensive solutions, based on its industrial heritage and RAG-like functionality it claims others don’t have

• June 30, 2025 30 Jun'25

  How modular design is reshaping India’s datacentre landscape

  Modular datacentre infrastructure can help Indian enterprises build faster, greener and more flexible datacentres to cope with the demand for local data storage and growing use of AI and edge computing