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StorageReviewNVIDIA and Microsoft open pre-orders for RTX Spark Windows laptops, with availability set for October 16 and compact desktops following in November. NVIDIA also previews DGX Station for Windows, planned for release in the fourth quarter; the announcement comes at Microsoft's Windows AI and Surface event.
StorageReviewDell announces the XPS 16 Creator Edition laptop using NVIDIA’s RTX Spark superchip, with 128GB of unified memory, and a Dell Creator Edition Desktop on the same silicon. Dell also plans a Windows version of its GB300 deskside AI workstation, now called Dell Pro Precision with GB300; the laptop is priced at $3,799.99.
StorageReviewAMD signs a definitive agreement to acquire spatial-intelligence company World Labs in an all-stock deal valued at approximately $8.2 billion. Co-founder Fei-Fei Li is set to join AMD as chief scientist, and the deal is expected to close by the end of 2026, subject to approvals and other conditions.
StorageReviewHPE announces four ProLiant Gen13 servers powered by 6th Gen AMD EPYC Venice processors. The lineup includes an eight-GPU DL585a Gen13 and a single-socket DL525 Gen13 with up to 256 cores and 16-channel memory, as well as two Open Compute Project nodes.
StorageReviewAMD releases ROCm 10.1 with changes aimed at moving data between storage and GPUs, including hipFILE, NUMA memory allocation and LLVM 24. The update also builds out AMD Infinity Storage to address workloads in which checkpoint files, key-value caches and model weights exceed accelerator memory.
StorageReviewCoreWeave puts NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 into production, with Cognition running live workloads as its first customer. Cognition reports up to 4.8x the total token throughput per GPU compared with a GB200 NVL72 baseline on SWE-2 inference at matched interactivity.
StorageReviewASUS’s NUC 16 Pro expands the NUC Pro’s footprint to 5×4 inches, adding a second M.2 slot and a second 2.5GbE port. Its cooling system uses two exhaust fans, a dedicated DIMM fan and three heat pipes in a 0.71-liter chassis.
StorageReviewXinnor releases xiRAID Classic 4.4.1 with NVMe discard support, allowing filesystem notifications that blocks are free to pass through the RAID layer to underlying drives. The release also adds multipath RAID members and targets read-intensive NVMe SSDs, which have less spare capacity than mixed-use or write-intensive drives.
StorageReviewNasuni makes AI Activate and Resilio 6.0 generally available on the Nasuni File Data Platform. Resilio 6.0 supports file transport up to 200 Gbps, while Enterprise Search is expected later this quarter.
StorageReviewVultr commits $1.2 billion to HPE’s AMD Helios AI Rack deployment, which uses racks containing 72 GPUs across Vultr’s U.S. cloud data centers. The order is HPE’s first for the MI455X system.
StorageReviewNetApp announces Novus, a disaggregated storage architecture for AI factories that separates metadata from the data path. NetApp says it is designed to exceed 100 TB/s of aggregate throughput, support hundreds of thousands of GPUs, and scale toward a zettabyte-scale file system.
StorageReviewSupermicro is shipping NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 racks with its Data Center Building Block Solutions and DLC-2 direct liquid cooling. Each rack follows NVIDIA’s design with 72 Rubin GPUs and 36 Vera CPUs in a single liquid-cooled unit.
StorageReviewSynopsys certifies its digital and analog EDA flows on TSMC’s A14 process and completes 64G UCIe IP tape-outs on TSMC’s 2nm and 3nm nodes. The companies also cite PCIe 7.0 and HBM4 IP on N2P as part of their joint work.
NVIDIA announced an open software platform and reference system design for adding safeguards to autonomous AI agents. The described design combines a host-CPU runtime with an out-of-band watchdog on a DPU; one source characterizes it as continuous in-silicon monitoring, while the other describes the watchdog as something an agent cannot see.
StorageReviewGoogle Cloud makes Storage Intelligence Advisor generally available and expands Google Cloud Storage batch operations. The advisor identifies operational anomalies, while a managed batch job can apply policy changes across up to 1,000 buckets per project.
TrueNAS 27 RC.1 has been released. One report says the release includes native S3, TrueSearch and OpenZFS 2.4; another highlights Linux 6.18 LTS alongside OpenZFS 2.4. The supplied reports do not establish whether these features are present in the same build.
NVIDIA’s DGX Spark 64GB configuration is launching at $4,999, according to both reports. One report gives an October 23 availability date and names the exclusive retail partners; the other says the existing 128GB model’s price has risen to $6,950.
StorageReviewSchneider Electric introduces software-defined medium-voltage switchgear that is operating in a live Equinix colocation pilot, alongside a 38 kV extension of its SF₆-free AirSeT gear. Schneider Electric, Wärtsilä Energy, and Stanley Consultants also present a Generator-to-Chip delivery model.
StorageReviewNetApp agrees to acquire Manchester-based PEAK:AIO and plans to integrate its metadata services and parallel namespace technology with ONTAP. NetApp says the combination is intended to scale shared storage alongside growing GPU clusters and advance its AI infrastructure roadmap.
StorageReviewAMD introduces Ross, an agentic AI assistant for developers working across its embedded portfolio, including FPGAs, adaptive SoCs, x86 embedded processors, and edge AI platforms. It starts with Vivado and Vitis HLS, offers more than 20 open agent skills, and is planned for monthly releases.
