Summary of Week 27 – June 29-July 3, 2026

Top 5 news stories - plus 5 more worth your attention

By Philippe Nicolas | July 6, 2026 at 2:01 pm

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July 3 – Samsung Electronics and SK hynix Will Invest a Combined 800 Trillion Won ($518 Billion) in Building a New Computer Chipmaking Hub in South Korean
July 2 – StorageNewsletter, 1 Year Later
July 1 – Summary of June 2026
June 30 – Quantum: Fiscal 4Q26 and FY26 Financial Results
June 29 – Summary of Week 26 – June 22-26, 2026

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IBM, Red Hat and Palo Alto Networks Expand Project Lightwell to Help Organizations Respond to Software Vulnerabilities
Collaboration combines vulnerability discovery, virtual patching and software remediation to help organizations reduce the time between vulnerability discovery and protection
July 2, 2026 | Press Release

ISC 2026: Bull and Alice & Bob Partner up to Bring Quantum Computers into HPC
Alice & Bob expands from developing cat-qubit chips to delivering a complete quantum computing system for on-premise deployment
July 1, 2026 | Press Release

IBM Releases IBM Storage Ceph 9.9.1
The product is GA
By Philippe Nicolas | July 1, 2026 | News

Quantum Appoints Storage Industry Veteran Greg Knieriemen as Vice President of Marketing
Brings two decades of enterprise storage marketing, technology evangelism, and sales enablement experience to support Quantum's growth strategy focusing on how organizations can manage data efficiently and cost-effectively
June 29, 2026 | Press Release

Micron Technology: Fiscal 3Q26 Financial Results
Generating $41.6 billion, up 74.3% QoQ and up 347.3% YoY
Top News | June 26, 2026 | Press Release

Statement of Direction: Cirata Symphony for IBM Big Replicate
Planned availability
By Philippe Nicolas | June 26, 2026 | News

Micron and Anthropic Announce Strategic Agreement to Scale Next-Generation AI Infrastructure
Collaboration spans memory and storage AI architecture design, supply agreement, enterprise AI adoption and a strategic investment
Top News | June 25, 2026 | Press Release

IBM and Red Hat Commit $5 Billion to Redefine the Future of Open Source in the AI Era
Project Lightwell establishes a trusted enterprise clearinghouse for open source software with a new AI-driven model for securing the software supply chain
Top News | June 23, 2026 | Press Release

SK hynix Receives 2026 IEEE Corporate Innovation Award for Driving AI Computing Expansion with HBM
Recognition highlights the company's achievements in driving expansion of AI computing through HBM innovation and application
June 23, 2026 | Press Release

CoreWeave and Meta Announce $21 Billion Expanded AI Infrastructure Agreement
Meta to leverage CoreWeave's AI cloud platform to scale inference workloads, underscoring the surging demand for large-scale AI compute
Top News | June 10, 2026 | Press Release

IBM Joins the iRODS Consortium
Global technology leader joins the consortium to help shape the future of open-source data management and collaboration
June 10, 2026 | Press Release

Computex 2026: Micron Powers AI Everywhere
End-to-end AI memory and storage portfolio spans data center to intelligent edge, with key products now in high-volume production
June 9, 2026 | Press Release

Quantum: Fiscal 4Q26 Financial Preliminary Results
Generating approximately $77.5 million
June 8, 2026 | Press Release

Quantum Announces Equity Financing to Strengthen Balance Sheet and Support Growth
To Eliminate all debt with combination of debt payoff and conversion
June 8, 2026 | Press Release

Micron Shipping 245TB 6600 ION U.2 and E3.L Data Center SSDs
Provided up to 84 times better energy efficiency, 8.6 times faster AI preprocessing and 3.4 times better ingest throughput, with up to 29 times lower latency
June 8, 2026 | Press Release

CXMT Ready for its IPO
Following a stellar 1Q2026 up700% YoY
By Philippe Nicolas | May 22, 2026 | News

Dell Tech World 2026: Dell Powers Samsung Electronics AI-Driven Semiconductor Factories
Yet another joint effort reflecting shared strategic goals
May 20, 2026 | Press Release

SK hynix Begins Mass Production of 192GB SOCAMM2
Setting new standard for AI server memory performance
May 1, 2026 | Press Release

SK hynix: Fiscal 1Q26 Financial Results
Revenue at ₩52.5763 trillion, up 60% QoQ and up 198% YoY
Top News | April 29, 2026 | Press Release

SK hynix Begins Supply of 321-layer QLC NAND Up to 2TB cSSD
Begins supply to Dell Technologies in April 2026
April 10, 2026 | Press Release

Samsung and AMD Expand Strategic Collaboration on Next-Generation AI Memory Solutions
The companies will collaborate on industry-leading HBM4 supply for AMD Instinct MI455X GPUs and next-generation DDR5 solutions for AMD EPYC processors and the AMD Helios platform
Top News | March 25, 2026 | Press Release

Qualcomm Acquires Exostellar
Continuing its journey to swallow data center IPs and key assets
March 24, 2026 | Press Release

IBM Completes Acquisition of Confluent, Making Real Time Data the Engine of Enterprise AI and Agents
Day-one integrations include IBM watsonx.data, IBM MQ, IBM webMethods hybrid integration, and IBM Z
March 23, 2026 | Press Release

AMD and Meta Announce Expanded Strategic Partnership to Deploy 6 Gigawatts of AMD GPUs
AMD digs deeper into GPUs while Meta continues pushing toward building a massive AI factory
Top News | March 6, 2026 | Press Release

Qualcomm Unveils AI200 and AI250 - Redefining Rack-Scale Data Center Inference Performance for the AI Era
Both Qualcomm AI200 and AI250 accelerators are based on Qualcomm Hexagon neural processing units (NPUs) customized for data center AI workloads
January 20, 2026 | Press Release

Qualcomm Acquires Ventana Micro Systems
Deepening RISC-V CPU Expertise
December 16, 2025 | Press Release

China's CXMT Aims to Build Country's First Advanced Memory Chips for AI
Move intended to cut dependence on foreign suppliers SK Hynix, Samsung and Micron
By Jean Jacques Maleval | February 12, 2024 | News