IT Infrastructure

GlobalFoundries has been selected as the technology provider and operator for two new semiconductor manufacturing facilities at its Malta, New York, site under a U.S.-Japan initiative providing up to 21 billion dollars in funding. The company announced the plan on October 14, saying Japan will provide the investment while GlobalFoundries contributes its manufacturing technology and operational expertise. The fabs are intended to expand trusted U.S. production of foundational semiconductors and strengthen supply chains for automotive, industrial and connected infrastructure markets.

Enterprise VPN appliances are supposed to guard the edge of the network. This week, one of the most widely used of them became the way in.

NVIDIA and Cisco are trying to solve one of the least glamorous but most binding limits in AI data centers: the front panel of the switch. At the Open Compute Project Global Summit in Santa Clara on October 12, the two companies announced plans for Ultra-Dense Small Form Factor Pluggable, or USFP, a new optical module designed for 400 gigabits per second per lane.

Ubuntu 26.10, codenamed "Stonking Stingray," is scheduled for release on October 15, 2026, with nine months of support. Most enterprises will stay on the 26.04 LTS, but for users with the newest hardware — especially Intel's Panther Lake laptops — testing by Phoronix shows the interim release is worth a serious look.

Two data center developers announced on October 9 that they have secured planning approval for a massive AI-ready campus in Taylor, Texas, designed to deliver up to one gigawatt of hyperscale data center capacity. The project, called the Taylor Technology Campus, is a co-development between Big Watt Digital, an integrated power and digital infrastructure platform, and PowerHouse Data Centers, a division of American Real Estate Partners focused on next-generation hyperscale facilities.