high-performance
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A boom in the sales of high-performance cars has created a demand for places to drive them.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
Ian Buck, Nvidia’s vice president for hyperscale and high-performance computing, said that the rise of agentic AI has made it impossible to address customer needs using just powerful chips or even custom servers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026
SoftBank Group said its AI data centers will support growing demand for high-performance computing from AI companies, cloud providers, enterprises, public institutions, and research organizations.
From Barron's • May 31, 2026
Producing high-quality crystalline silicon and fabricating high-performance semiconductor devices typically requires temperatures approaching 1,000 degrees Celsius.
From Science Daily • May 30, 2026
Tamara didn’t often fly along when the 586th was given assignments, either because of her leg injury or because she wasn’t familiar with the high-performance Yak-1 fighter aircraft.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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