Product Launch

San Jose – October 13, 2026 -- Wiwynn unveiled a 6kW double-sided cold plate that it says cuts power delivery loss by up to 80%, alongside AI rack platforms for NVIDIA and AMD and a co-packaged optics (CPO) rack, at the 2026 OCP Global Summit in San Jose.

Wiwynn joins NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 pilot build program

Wiwynn and Wistron are among the first NVIDIA Pilot Build Partners for the Vera Rubin NVL72 platform, covering engineering validation and design-in. The liquid-cooled, rack-scale system integrates 72 NVIDIA Rubin GPUs and 36 NVIDIA Vera CPUs with 6th-generation NVIDIA NVLink.

Wiwynn is also applying its rack integration and manufacturing capabilities to AMD's Helios rackscale solution, built on the Open Rack Wide (ORW) standard. Helios combines AMD Instinct MI450 Series GPUs, 6th Gen AMD EPYC CPUs, AMD Pensando networking and AMD ROCm software, with configurations tailored to cloud service provider (CSP) requirements.

San Jose – October 13, 2026 -- d-Matrix has launched Squadron, a fleet of multi-rack inference systems that scale to 1,024 interconnected Corsair XPUs and deliver megawatts of compute for latency-sensitive AI workloads. The systems are shipping to priority customers, and the underlying Corsair servers and SquadRacks are now generally available.

Squadron clusters scale to 16 racks and run on air cooling

A Squadron cluster combines up to 16 SquadRacks, each a single rack holding eight servers. Clusters are interconnected with d-Matrix JetStream NICs and managed with Aviator software.

The systems are air-cooled and built on industry standards. d-Matrix says customers can install them in existing data centers without liquid cooling or major buildouts. Customers can start with a single Corsair server, move to a full SquadRack, or scale to a multi-rack cluster on the same architecture.

Cockeysville, Md. – October 13, 2026 -- GEARWRENCH is entering the Power & Utility hand tool category with more than 50 tools across more than five product categories, built for power transmission and distribution professionals.

The lineup was developed with working linemen and validated through months of field testing. Hundreds of linemen took part in product testing and field evaluation, according to the company. The tools target underground, ground-level and overhead work.

Utility capacity and grid reliability pressures drive demand for specialized tools

Utilities face growing pressure to expand capacity, strengthen aging infrastructure and improve grid reliability. GEARWRENCH says demand for specialized tools is rising as a result. It also notes that safety requirements and jobsite practices have advanced significantly, while many tools used across the industry remain largely unchanged.

Bozeman – October 13, 2026 -- Reveal Technology Inc. launched Farsight 2.0, its 3D mapping and terrain intelligence platform, alongside a new $9.5 million U.S. Army purchase order under its existing GSA IDIQ contract.

The second delivery order covers procurement, distribution, training and sustainment of Farsight for additional infantry brigades.

Farsight 2.0 fuses imagery from all available sources into one global world model

The update pulls drone, satellite and sensor imagery into a single terrain picture that refreshes as new data arrives. This includes imagery crossing command and control networks. Units no longer depend solely on what they collect themselves, so operators can start from the most current terrain available and spend their time on analysis rather than on building the picture.

San Jose – October 13, 2026 -- Wistron Corporation and Wiwynn Corporation say they are among the first manufacturers ready to build NVIDIA's Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale platform, which unifies 72 Rubin GPUs and 36 Vera CPUs in a fully liquid-cooled design. The two companies are showing the system at the 2026 OCP Global Summit in San Jose under the theme "Create AI Beyond Limits."

Vera Rubin NVL72 combines 72 GPUs, 36 CPUs and BlueField-4 DPUs

The NVL72 platform links 72 NVIDIA Rubin GPUs and 36 NVIDIA Vera CPUs through NVIDIA NVLink. It also integrates NVIDIA ConnectX-9 SuperNICs and NVIDIA BlueField-4 DPUs. Wistron and Wiwynn describe it as built for the resiliency, energy efficiency and scalability that AI factories demand, and optimized for frontier AI model training, inference and reasoning.

Paris – October 13, 2026 -- Geely Auto Group's three brands sold more than 10,000 vehicles in Europe in September 2026, the first time their combined monthly figure has crossed that threshold. The group disclosed the number as it made its first group-level appearance at the Paris Motor Show, where Geely Auto, Lynk & Co and Zeekr share a stand at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles.

Geely Auto Group reports 2.24 million global sales for January-September 2026

The group sold 2,235,481 units worldwide from January to September 2026. It recorded both year-on-year and month-on-month growth for seven consecutive months.

Cumulative sales outside Mainland China reached 797,670 units, up 169% year on year. The group also cited continued expansion of local retail, service and product development operations in Europe.

Newington, N.H. – October 13, 2026 -- SIG SAUER will begin fielding the XM8 carbine to the U.S. Army's Close Combat Force in December, after ramping up production to meet the Army's schedule, the company said as it prepares to exhibit at the AUSA trade show in Washington, D.C., October 12-14.

The company is also doubling the square footage and workforce at its North Carolina facility through a multi-million-dollar expansion covering R&D, engineering, manufacturing and training. The source does not disclose the investment figure or a completion date.

Rochester, N.Y. – October 13, 2026 -- Vuzix Corporation (NASDAQ: VUZI) has demonstrated 19,200 parallel optical pathways across an approximately 30 mm optical path on its Vuzix Causeway waveguide evaluation platform, and is now offering evaluation units to qualified partners exploring optical interconnects for AI data centers.

Vuzix Causeway routes thousands of optical channels through a compact substrate

The platform applies proprietary waveguide technology to route thousands of parallel optical pathways through a compact substrate. Vuzix targets co-packaged optics (CPO), near-package optics (NPO) and AI computing applications. Future communications implementations are projected to support multi-terabit aggregate bandwidth, subject to source, detector and system integration performance.

Waveguide structures can be tailored to source wavelength and illumination approach for custom architectures using microLED or VCSEL sources.

San Jose – October 13, 2026 -- Cisco and NVIDIA plan to develop an open industry specification for a 400Gb/s-per-lane pluggable optical module that is expected to deliver 4x the bandwidth density of 200Gb/s-per-lane optics. The companies announced the Ultra-Dense Small Form Factor Pluggable (USFP) at the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit 2026.

Cisco also said the first systems powered by its 102.4T Silicon One G300 are shipping to customers. Its 51.2T P200-based systems are running in production at hyperscalers, including Microsoft and Alibaba.

USFP targets 4x bandwidth density and 1.3x power efficiency

Cisco and NVIDIA said USFP is expected to deliver 1.3x the power efficiency of 200Gb/s-per-lane optics. They say it relies on a proven operating model to reach 400Gb/s per lane, and that it preserves serviceability, deployment flexibility and the operational simplicity of today's pluggable optics.

Boston – October 13, 2026 -- Fortress will present a full-scale prototype of its NextGen SMART ILA modular optical infrastructure platform, designed for a 600 kW day-one load that scales to 1.2 MW, at an invitation-only event in Denver, Colorado, on October 20–22, 2026.

Platform targets 400 to 800 kW of ICT capacity across low-, high-density and mixed configurations

Fortress positions the NextGen SMART ILA as a standardized, modular alternative to traditional precast infrastructure. The platform supports low-density, high-density and mixed configurations, allowing consistent deployment across multiple sites as network requirements change.