Digital Infrastructure Monthly Insights

Tata Electronics will deploy ASML’s suite of advanced lithography tools at its planned semiconductor fabrication facility in Dholera, Gujarat, under a partnership formalized during a meeting attended by India’s Prime Minister. The move strengthens India–Netherlands collaboration on critical technologies and underpins India’s first planned chip fab.

AirTrunk disclosed plans for a new hyperscale data center facility in Malaysia. In parallel, Princeton Digital Group announced a new hyperscale build in Indonesia.

EXA Infrastructure announced network connectivity tailored for AI compute environments and highlighted a partnership with Argentum AI and Boosteroid to enable low-latency, high-throughput links between GPU clusters and data centers.

Anthropic secured access to more than 300MW of compute at SpaceX’s Colossus 1 data centre in Memphis, Tennessee, including over 220,000 Nvidia GPUs, to scale its Claude Pro and Claude Max services. Access is expected within a month; financial terms were not disclosed.

Samsung Electronics is sampling a 12-layer HBM4E device to selected customers, following mass production and shipment of HBM4 earlier this year. The HBM4E is described as an industry first for a 12-layer stack, delivering up to 16 Gb/s transfer speeds with improved energy efficiency.

Samsung will invest 39 trillion dong (~$1.5B) to build its first chip testing plant in Vietnam (Thai Nguyen province, ~60 km north of Hanoi). Construction has begun; operations are targeted for November 2027. The facility will focus on legacy DRAM and NAND, with planned annual output of 153.3 billion Gb (DRAM) and 255.6 billion Gb (NAND). Investment was approved in March; Samsung may reinvest up to ~$2.5B in profits for a potential second factory.

Orange is partnering with Google Cloud, with Anthropic referenced, to advance Orange’s transformation using cloud-hosted AI capabilities.

Qualcomm Technologies introduced the Dragonwing Mobile Broadband Multimedia (MBM) Family of broadband chipsets built on a 4nm process, featuring on-device AI, advanced connectivity, and multimedia capabilities. The premium MBM7 Series, led by the MBM715, supports sub-6GHz 5G NR and Wi‑Fi 7 with up to 5.8 Gb/s, 320 MHz channels, and 4K QAM for low-latency, high-throughput performance.

Arm indicated that the rise of agentic AI workloads will substantially increase CPU demand inside AI data centers, emphasizing a larger role for general-purpose compute alongside accelerators.

AWS and Red Hat detailed a production-ready AWS Neuron Operator for OpenShift (v1.1.4) with Neuron SDK 2.28 support, rolling driver upgrades, node telemetry, and GitOps-ready deployment. The stack enables LLM inference (e.g., Llama 3.1 8B) on AWS Inferentia (Inf2) and Trainium (Trn1) using Red Hat AI Inference with vLLM and KServe on ROSA/OpenShift.

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According to an interview cited by Fortune, the US government acquired a 10% equity stake in Intel about nine months ago and provided $10B in funding to support expansion or construction of US fabrication facilities. The government stake is reportedly now valued at more than $50B.

The company reports growth from a ₹400 crore base to a ₹1.3 lakh crore revenue run rate and plans to reach $30B as semiconductor fabrication and OSAT packaging ramp. It is already among the Tata Group’s top five by revenue, profitable, and investing in EMS, chip manufacturing, and packaging.

South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT and NIPA completed on-site inspections and are negotiating with Samsung SDS, Naver Cloud, and Elice for a 2.08 trillion won AI GPU infrastructure project. Final operator selection is pending. Evaluation emphasized GPU procurement, large-scale cluster operations, and data center power/cooling design. Initial deployments are expected to use Nvidia Blackwell GPUs, with Vera Rubin phased in later subject to supply and cost. Service launch could slip beyond this year.

Thales partnered with Google Cloud to deliver a fully sovereign cloud in Germany. Thales will manage and operate a dedicated German infrastructure via a new, legally independent German entity, staffed entirely with local personnel and designed to meet German digital sovereignty and regulatory requirements.

At Google Cloud Next '26, Google Cloud showcased new agentic AI solutions and enhancements to its AI architecture, positioned for cloud-based workloads in telecom cloud infrastructure and wireless contexts.

Apple has reportedly reached a preliminary agreement for Intel to manufacture a portion of the chips used in iPhones, iPads, and other devices, following over a year of negotiations. The move would reduce Apple’s reliance on TSMC, its primary custom silicon manufacturer.

Hyperscalers and AI labs are increasing reliance on custom in-house silicon to train and run large models, shifting the data centre AI chip market from Nvidia’s near-monopoly to a more fragmented supplier landscape.

Brief statement indicates an operator-led, single-accountability model covering multiple layers of enterprise AI systems, with configuration for data sovereignty and performance.

Sony Semiconductor Solutions signed a non-binding MoU with TSMC for a strategic partnership to co-develop and manufacture next-generation image sensors and to jointly explore physical AI applications in automotive and robotics. The MoU contemplates forming a joint venture in which Sony would be the majority and controlling shareholder.

Nvidia signed a strategic partnership with AI cloud and data center operator IREN to build up to 5 GW of DSX-aligned AI infrastructure, expanding large-scale AI compute capacity across multiple locations.

Sivers Semiconductors entered a $1.5 million development partnership with Tachyon Networks to co-develop a 60GHz mmWave transceiver targeting fixed wireless access (FWA).

Digi Power X executed a Master Services Agreement with Cerebras Systems to colocate a purpose-built 40 MW Tier III AI data center campus in Columbiana, Alabama. The 10-year initial term is valued at ~$1.1B with total potential up to $2.5B including renewals. Deployment will occur in two phases (15 MW then 25 MW), with immediate construction, Phase 1 RFS targeted for Dec 15, 2026, and full deployment by end of Q1 2027. Power interconnection and an on-site substation are already completed with Alabama Power.

Pixxel announced a partnership with Sarvam AI to develop an orbital data centre satellite, described as India’s first, to run AI workloads in orbit. Technical specifications, launch timeline, and compute details were not disclosed.

Cogent Communications, through its indirect wholly owned subsidiary Cogent Fiber, LLC, entered a definitive agreement to sell 10 U.S. data center facilities to a newly formed entity sponsored by I Squared Capital for $225 million in cash. Identified sites include Phoenix (AZ) and Anaheim, Burbank, and Stockton (CA).

IREN announced plans to acquire Mirantis, an infrastructure management software provider, to integrate software-driven orchestration and operations into its AI data center business.

Render Networks secured $14M in funding and acquired mPower to extend its network construction and work-management software beyond telecom into adjacent infrastructure sectors.

STL announced a manufacturing investment to expand capacity serving AI data centre and telecom customers, expected to create 400–500 jobs and increase output.

The central government approved 12 applications under India Semiconductor Mission (ISM) 1.0, representing approximately ₹1.64 lakh crore in proposed investments.

Tigo (Millicom) will maintain ~US$100mn/year CAPEX in Panama, expand fiber coverage by 60k–100k homes passed per year, and build a fourth data center intended to serve regional and international customers. Existing Tigo sites include a Tier III-certified facility in Ciudad del Saber (Clayton), plus IDC Divisa and IDC 12/10.

Bloomberg reports that Cerebras is preparing an initial public offering targeting up to $4B amid heightened demand for AI compute and data center capacity.

The data centre operator running India’s largest cluster of Nvidia AI processors has appointed ICICI Securities and SBI Capital Markets as advisers and may add more banks ahead of filing a draft IPO prospectus in the next 2–3 months.

Digital Edge arranged holding company-level financing that includes an option to convert the facility into a sustainability-linked loan once ambitious sustainability performance targets are formally agreed.