AI Infrastructure
Canada’s Clean Energy Grid Is the Perfect Target for AI-Compute Crypto Miners
Pearl arrived with a pitch that sounded different from the last crypto mining boom: rather than burning GPU cycles on arbitrary hashing algorithms, it...
AI Infrastructure
Acquired Before Adopted: Why Canadian Enterprises Keep Sending AI Infrastructure Wins to US Hyperscalers
Canada produces world-class AI research. It funds promising startups. It celebrates early-stage founders. And then, with notable consistency, it watches those companies grow up...
AI Infrastructure
The Home-Market Trap: Why Canadian Enterprises Keep Choosing Foreign AI Over Domestic Startups
Canada has spent decades cultivating one of the world's most respected AI research ecosystems. It has the academics, the talent pipelines, and the government...
AI Infrastructure
NVIDIA Vera Outperforms Intel and AMD on AI Workloads — And That Should Concern Canada’s Sovereign AI Planners
NVIDIA's Vera CPU — the custom Arm-based processor designed to work in lockstep with its Grace Hopper and Blackwell GPU architectures — is delivering...
AI Infrastructure
Ethernet AI Fabrics Could Determine Whether Canada’s Sovereign AI Infrastructure Is Truly Independent
When Broadcom and South Korean AI chip startup FuriosaAI publicly aligned behind Ethernet as the preferred fabric for large-scale AI clusters, the announcement registered...
AI Governance & Regulation
Beyond Nvidia: FuriosaAI’s 2nm Inference Chip Opens a Strategic Door for Canadian AI Sovereignty
FuriosaAI, a Seoul-based AI chip startup, is preparing to upend a core assumption of the AI infrastructure market: that graphics processing units — specifically...
AI Infrastructure
Could External GPU Memory Hardware Finally Make On-Device AI Practical for Privacy-Conscious Canadian Enterprises?
OWC — the Mac-focused hardware accessories company formally known as Other World Computing — has announced a product it's calling the Stack AI Speed...
AI Infrastructure
RTX Spark and the Edge AI Arms Race: Can On-Device Windows Compute Challenge Cloud Inference?
Nvidia's product roadmap for 2026 is shaping up as a deliberate attempt to own the entire AI compute continuum — from the Vera Rubin...