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StorageReview.comLancium Adds NVIDIA as Investor and Partner, Targeting Gigawatt AI Factories Across a 15GW Pipeline
Lancium has announced a strategic collaboration and investment from NVIDIA to accelerate the deployment of large-scale accelerated computing infrastructure…
StorageReview.comSpaceXAI Adopts NVIDIA Vera CPUs for Grok, With a Vera Rubin NVL72 Bound for Orbit in Starmind
Alongside its Groq 3 LPX news at Hot Chips 2026, NVIDIA announced that SpaceXAI will deploy NVIDIA Vera CPUs to accelerate its next generation of agentic AI…
StorageReview.comNVIDIA Groq 3 LPX Enters Full Production: 3,400 Tokens per Second at 100K Context, 256 LP30s per Rack
NVIDIA announced the production release of the NVIDIA Groq 3 LPX, a dedicated interactive inference accelerator built to complement the Vera Rubin NVL72…
StorageReview.comIntel Hot Chips 2026: 256-Core Diamond Rapids, Crescent Island With 480GB for Inference, and Wildcat Lake at the Edge
At Hot Chips 2026, Intel presented architectural details for three upcoming silicon platforms targeted at enterprise agentic AI workloads spanning data center…
StorageReview.comMSI XpertStation WS300 Review: 748GB of Coherent Memory and 20 PetaFLOPS on a Desk
The MSI XpertStation WS300 is built on NVIDIA’s newest DGX Station architecture, the most capable generation yet, placing a full GB300 Grace Blackwell…
StorageReview.comIBM’s 2nm Dual-Architecture Mainframe Processor Runs Arm and IBM Z Instructions in the Same Cores
At the Hot Chips conference, IBM revealed the industry’s first dual-architecture mainframe processor, engineered for future generations of IBM Z and LinuxONE…
StorageReview.comGartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Storage 2026: Everpure Tops Both Axes Again as the Six Leaders Hold
Gartner has published its 2026 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Storage Platforms, and the headline is continuity at the top, with one clear standout. The same…
StorageReview.comDell Pro Precision 5 16s AMD Review: Ryzen AI 9 HX PRO 475 and Radeon 890M in a 16-Inch Workstation
The Dell Pro Precision 5 16s AMD brings the Ryzen AI 9 HX PRO 475 into Dell’s larger 16-inch mobile workstation chassis, pairing 12 cores and 24 threads…
StorageReview.comSK hynix Takes Its Co-Packaged Optics Roadmap to Nature Electronics: 100Tb/s Nodes, Sub-1pJ/bit, Under 10ns
Across several hardware generations, memory and networking vendors have identified different choke points in high-performance computing clusters. Memory…
StorageReview.comSandisk NAS 800 Brings PCIe 5.0 and 14,900MB/s to NAS, With the SATA NAS 600 Covering Legacy Bays
Sandisk has introduced two SSD families designed specifically for network-attached storage, covering both SATA-based systems and higher-performance NVMe NAS…
StorageReview.comCloudera Anywhere Cloud Launches: One Control Plane for AI and Data Across Public, Sovereign, and On-Prem Environments
Cloudera has introduced Cloudera Anywhere Cloud, a hybrid data and AI platform engineered to build, deploy, and scale production-grade workloads across public…
StorageReview.comQNAP QuTS MEGA 2.0 Adds Snapshots and Cross-Cluster Mirroring for Scale-Out NAS
QNAP has released QuTS MEGA 2.0, an update to the operating system behind its MEGA Scale-out NAS platform that adds snapshots and Cross-Cluster Mirroring for…
StorageReview.comBest Local LLM Tools in 2026: Runtimes, Apps, and Agents
Updated August 19, 2026: First publication. Research current as of this date. There are four reasons to run a language model on your own hardware instead of in…
StorageReview.comNVIDIA, OpenAI, and SB Energy Detail the 8 IT-GW PORTS-Pike Technology Campus and Its $105 Billion Credit Backstop
NVIDIA, OpenAI, and SB Energy have shared more information about the PORTS-Pike Technology Campus in Pike County, Ohio. The project will combine an 8 IT-GW…
StorageReview.comStack Automation by Quali Goes GA as a Cisco Exclusive, Promising Rack to Application in Hours
Stack Automation by Quali, the infrastructure automation platform co-developed with Cisco and sold exclusively through Cisco, has reached general availability…
StorageReview.comIBM Links Two Cryogenic Modules Below 15 Millikelvin on the Path to Its 2029 Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer
IBM has successfully integrated and cooled two cryogenic modules within a single shared environment, a step the company calls critical to scaling quantum…
StorageReview.comSandisk Tapes Out Its First HBF Memory Die, Targets 2027 for Inference Product Samples
Sandisk has taped out the first High Bandwidth Flash memory die. The company put it on a slide at its 2026 Investor Day on August 13, under the header HBF…
StorageReview.comEnterprise SSD Prices Run at 6.5x Last Year: VDURA Pegs a 30TB TLC Drive at $22,600
Enterprise SSD prices increased another 5 percent in July 2026, according to the latest VDURA Flash Volatility Index. While the monthly increase was lower than…
StorageReview.comSK hynix and Solidigm Split the NAND Map: 54 Trillion Won at Home, a Reported Dalian Fab 2 Restart in China
SK hynix and its subsidiary Solidigm are following a two-part manufacturing plan to keep mature flash production separate from next-generation memory. Recent…
StorageReview.comAMD AI Energy Efficiency Up 4x Since 2024, Ahead of Pace on Its 20x-by-2030 Rack-Scale Goal
AMD said it has achieved an estimated 4x increase in AI energy efficiency from 2024 to mid-2026, exceeding its projected 3x target for the period. It is…
StorageReview.comUbiquiti UPS 2U Pro Review: 1920W of UniFi-Managed Rackmount Power Protection
Ubiquiti continues to expand its UniFi power ecosystem with the UPS 2U Pro, a higher-capacity rackmount UPS designed for larger network racks, storage systems…
StorageReview.comHP EliteBook X G2i Review: 17 Hours of OLED Battery in a 2.4-Pound Business Flagship
The HP EliteBook X G2i is HP’s premium 14-inch business notebook, and the company is not shy about the AI branding: the formal model name is the EliteBook X…
StorageReview.comMicron and SK hynix Commit Billions to Memory Capacity, but Almost Nothing Lands Before 2028
Two of the three big memory makers are putting money into U.S. semiconductor infrastructure at opposite ends of the production chain. Micron committed up to $3…
StorageReview.comBest Portable SSDs in 2026: Lab-Tested Leaderboard
DRAFT for review. Not linked from the hub or nav yet. Updated August 17, 2026: Samsung T9 and T7 Shield added, and the eligibility window broadened so any…
StorageReview.comHCLTech Pairs NetApp Keystone With U4X to Sell Enterprise AI Storage by Consumption
HCLTech and NetApp have expanded their strategic partnership to deliver an integrated hybrid cloud Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS) platform tailored for…
StorageReview.comRAM, GPU, and Storage for Agentic AI: How Much You Actually Need
Updated August 16, 2026: Initial publication. Model sizes and memory figures verified against official model releases as of this date; this table is refreshed…
StorageReview.comUbiquiti Reviews: Every UniFi Product We Have Tested
Updated August 18, 2026: Ubiquiti UPS 2U Pro added, taking a new Best UniFi UPS category, with a measured 9.1 ms transfer time and 22 minutes at a 960W half…
StorageReview.comDell Puts 9.83PB in 2U With 245TB KIOXIA SSDs, Adds S3 over RDMA and KV Cache Offload to ObjectScale
Dell has qualified KIOXIA’s 245.76TB NVMe SSDs for software-defined ObjectScale, putting 9.83PB of raw flash in a single 2U server. The density milestone lands…
StorageReview.comNVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet Photonics Enters Full Production With 4x Fewer Lasers and a Five-Vendor CPO Supply Chain
NVIDIA has moved Spectrum-X Ethernet Photonics, its co-packaged optics (CPO) Ethernet switch platform, into full production. The company puts the gains at 4x…
StorageReview.comBest Enterprise SSDs in 2026: Lab-Tested Leaderboard
Updated August 14, 2026: Initial publication. Ranked on our current enterprise bench (FIO, GDSIO, and DLIO); drives tested on the older suite are noted in Also…
StorageReview.comNVIDIA Moves 800-VDC Power Architecture From Concept to Production, Just Don’t Turn Off AC Power Yet
NVIDIA has transitioned its 800-VDC power architecture from a forward-looking design concept into an active production roadmap. The initial MGX-compatible…
StorageReview.comDell Pro Precision 7 16 Intel Review: RTX PRO 3000 Blackwell in a Tandem OLED Workstation
The Dell Pro Precision 7 16 is the higher-end 16-inch mobile workstation in Dell’s current Pro Precision lineup. Our review unit is built around…
StorageReview.comBest Business Laptops in 2026: Lab-Tested Leaderboard
Updated August 14, 2026: Initial publication. Prices noted are as-tested, single-unit prices at review time; volume pricing differs, and this market moves…
StorageReview.comBest Laptops for Local AI in 2026: Lab-Tested Leaderboard
Updated August 14, 2026: Dell Pro Precision 7 16 Intel added to Also Tested following its review. Originally published earlier today. Prices noted are as…
StorageReview.comBest Desktop Workstations in 2026: Lab-Tested Leaderboard
Updated August 14, 2026: Initial publication; pricing claims verified against vendor configurators August 14, 2026. Desktop workstations are ranked here on…
StorageReview.comBest Mobile Workstations in 2026: Lab-Tested Leaderboard
Updated August 14, 2026: Dell Pro Precision 7 16 Intel added to Also Tested following its review. Originally published earlier today. In the lab now…
StorageReview.comDell Pro Precision 5 14s AMD Review: 24 Threads in a 3.08-Pound Workstation
The Dell Pro Precision 5 14s AMD is the Ryzen half of Dell’s newest 14-inch mobile workstation. Our review unit runs the Ryzen AI 9 HX PRO 475, a…
StorageReview.comLaptop Battery Life Leaderboard 2026: Top 20 Lab-Tested Laptops, Ranked
Updated August 14, 2026: Dell Pro Precision 7 16 Intel enters at #19 with 11 hr 43 min; the HP ZBook Ultra G1a 14 rotates off at the 20-system cap. New results…
StorageReview.comBest Desktops for Local AI in 2026: Lab-Tested Leaderboard
Updated August 13, 2026: Initial publication. On the roadmap as hardware lands: GB300-class systems. Pick order is provisional pending final composite scoring…
StorageReview.comStorageReview Best: Lab-Tested Buyer’s Guides
Updated August 15, 2026: Ubiquiti Reviews joins the family, indexing all 27 UniFi and Ubiquiti products we have tested, alongside the new Best Enterprise SSDs…
StorageReview.comRT-One Becomes First AMPHIX Customer, Certifying One AI Stack to Deploy Across the Americas
RAVEL and Strata Expanse have named RT-One as the first commercial customer of the AMPHIX AI Infrastructure Platform, a deployment model designed to validate…
StorageReview.comSilicon Motion MonTitan RDK Targets Agentic AI Storage With Next-Gen PerformaShape and PCIe 6.0 Support
At FMS 2026, Silicon Motion introduced the MonTitan SSD Reference Design Kit (RDK), a platform built around the company’s next-generation PerformaShape…
StorageReview.comLiqid Pools 30 AMD MI350P GPUs in One Server: 4.3TB of HBM3E and 69 PFLOPS for AI Inference
In late July, Liqid unveiled a scale-up AI platform built around AMD Instinct MI350P PCIe GPUs. The UltraStack 30 pairs Liqid’s composable GPU pooling…
StorageReview.comLuisuantech GP Spark Review: Nearly 10GB/s of Plug-and-Play Storage for the DGX Spark
When we reviewed the NVIDIA DGX Spark, storage was the platform’s clearest design flaw, and it is a form-factor problem before it is anything else. The…
StorageReview.comDapuStor Shows a 512TB QLC SSD at FMS 2026: 1PB of Flash in Two Drives
DapuStor used FMS 2026 to show what it calls an industry-first 512TB SSD: a new top capacity for the R6060 PCIe 5.0 QLC line that doubles the company’s…
StorageReview.comDell Pro Precision 5 16s Intel Review: 24 Hours of Battery in a 16-Inch Workstation
The Dell Pro Precision 5 16s Intel is a 16-inch mobile workstation built for users who want more screen space while keeping the system reasonably portable. Our…
StorageReview.comVolta Comes Out of Stealth With a $10B AI Lab Partnership and a 133MW Vera Rubin Factory in Norway
Volta has emerged from stealth with a vertically integrated AI infrastructure platform designed to combine capital formation, powered land, data center…
StorageReview.comIBM and Together AI Put $240M Into a Dedicated HGX B300 Inference Cluster on IBM Cloud
IBM has announced a multi-year, $240 million agreement with Together AI to deploy a dedicated NVIDIA HGX B300-based AI inference cluster on IBM Cloud. Together…
StorageReview.comUbiquiti Enterprise NAS Review: 16 Bays, Dual 25GbE, and ZFS for $3,999
The Enterprise NAS (ENAS) is Ubiquiti’s first run at more enterprise-lite business storage. The 3U chassis holds 16 hot-swap drive bays, an eight-core…
StorageReview.comLumilens Exits Stealth With $700M and AI Optics Already Shipping to a Hyperscaler
Lumilens has emerged from stealth with a portfolio of optical interconnect products targeting two networking constraints in large AI clusters: scale-out…
StorageReview.comSmart IOPS Unobtanium T50: 50 Million IOPS Per Gen6 SSD, With a One Billion IOPS Appliance Target
Smart IOPS and H3 Platform have announced an AI compute storage platform targeting up to one billion random-read IOPS. The proposed system combines Smart IOPS’…
StorageReview.comNetlist and Samsung Sign Five-Year Patent, Supply, and Technology Agreements
Netlist and Samsung have signed a five-year set of agreements covering patent cross-licensing, DRAM and NAND supply, technology cooperation, and the settlement…
StorageReview.comSK hynix at FMS 2026: 16-High HBM4, Wafer-Bonded 375-Layer NAND, and a Tiered Memory Pitch
SK hynix used Future of Memory and Storage 2026, held August 4 to 6 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, to showcase a comprehensive “full-stack”…
StorageReview.comAMD to Acquire Taalas, the Toronto Startup Building Silicon Around One Model
AMD has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Toronto-based Taalas, a developer of specialized AI inference silicon. The acquisition is intended to…
StorageReview.comBeyond the Sales Pitch: Why We’re Heading to EUC World Amplify 2026
Over the past two years, end-user computing (EUC) has evolved at a pace that we have never seen before. This is being driven by rapid AI integration, major…
StorageReview.comSynopsys CXL 4.0 IP Hits 128 GT/s, Claims 3-6x KV Cache Offload Over SSDs
Synopsys has announced what it describes as the industry’s first complete Compute Express Link (CXL) 4.0 intellectual property suite. The portfolio combines a…
StorageReview.comDell Pro Precision 5 14s Intel Review: Certified Workstation Graphics Without a Discrete GPU
The Dell Pro Precision 5 14s is a compact mobile workstation built around Intel’s latest professional laptop platform. Our review unit combines a Series…
StorageReview.comCoreWeave Locks In Solidigm SSD Supply as Flash Allocation Becomes an AI Cloud Problem
CoreWeave said on August 5 that it has signed a multi-year agreement with Solidigm for priority access to enterprise SSD capacity. Storage has become the…
StorageReview.comWD Bets 8x Bandwidth Beats More Terabytes as 40TB UltraSMR Starts Shipping
Western Digital started shipping its next-generation ePMR nearline platform at up to 40TB per drive during the quarter that ended July 3, and told investors on…
StorageReview.comAMD Instinct Coder Puts 8 MI325X GPUs Behind Local AI Coding, Claiming 70% Lower Token Costs
AMD, Spectro Cloud, and Supermicro have announced AMD Instinct Coder, a validated enterprise inference platform intended for AI coding workloads. The solution…