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Anderon Releases Superconducting Quantum PDK: A Step Toward Repeatable Quantum Manufacturing

Heather West, PhD — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Anderon’s first superconducting quantum PDK reflects a shift in quantum manufacturing from bespoke, researcher-led fabrication toward foundry-style design flows, where developers design against a defined process instead of negotiating one from scratch. As the industry moves toward standardized platforms, the market is converging on a question that will shape which foundry models gain the most from quantum’s projected growth: how much of a quantum device can be standardized, and how much must remain custom-engineered.

IDC Survey: Number of Installed Print Devices by Select Worldwide Countries

Phil Sargeant — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey examines the number of print devices organizations have installed in their office locations and how installation levels differ by country. Based on a June 2026 survey of 1,824 hardware decision-makers in 17 countries, this analysis compares France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States, Japan, and China with the worldwide total across six device types, from ink tank printers to label printers. This analysis matters to vendors, channel partners, and service providers shaping devices, supplies, and service offerings for mixed print environments.

Market Analysis Perspective: EMEA Telecommunications, 2026

Ahmad Latif Ali, Tolga Yalcin — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Analysis Perspective analyzes the trends impacting Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) communications service providers in 2026, with a focus on generative AI, satellite, and future investment priorities. It includes an overview of the essential market guidance and outlines the competitive challenges that key suppliers within the EMEA telecommunications landscape should consider.

"AI has moved from the lab to the balance sheet for EMEA telcos — nearly half are already funding generative and agentic AI use cases in the network, and that share will only grow. The operators that win over the next three years will pair that AI investment with real interconnect and edge capacity, and will build data sovereignty into every proposal rather than treating it as a regional afterthought." — Ahmad Latif Ali, vice president, Telecommunications, IDC

Market Analysis Perspective: Worldwide Public Cloud Platform as a Service, 2026

Adam Reeves — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Analysis Perspective provides insight into the current and future state of the worldwide public cloud platform as a service (PaaS) market. It includes an overview of the current market landscape, a technology buyer perspective, a market outlook, and IDC's advice for technology suppliers.

"The public cloud PaaS market has gone through a massive sea change. While in the past, data management held majority of segment-level revenue, now AI core software dominates with a five-year CAGR (2025–2030) of nearly 60% compared to an overall market CAGR of 35%. This market revolution has created opportunities for new vendors to move up the market share table." — Adam Reeves, research director, PaaS for Developers of Modern and Edge Applications, IDC.

CoreWeave Fully Connected 2026 — AI Loop and Forge

Jasdeep Singh, Dave McCarthy — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

At its first Fully Connected conference, held in San Francisco, CoreWeave launched CoreWeave Forge, a development layer built around what it calls the AI loop (run, observe, curate, improve, and evaluate), and made NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 and the NVIDIA Vera CPU part of its infrastructure portfolio. Forge is now generally available, combining technology from Weights & Biases, OpenPipe, and marimo with CoreWeave's own training, inference, and sandbox services. Together, the announcements show CoreWeave extending from GPU capacity into the software layers enterprises need to run AI in production, while keeping its infrastructure as the foundation.

Dell Expands Its AI Data Platform with Enterprise Context, GPU Data Prep, and Managed Azure File Storage

Jason Echols, Carol Sliwa — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Dell Technologies is extending the Dell AI Data Platform beyond storage and data engines to encompass the definitions and relationships that explain what enterprise data means, a move designed to better position Dell for the context layer AI agents depend on. Dell will need to continue to emphasize its differentiated capabilities to enterprise buyers, as major storage and data platform vendors converge to compete in that layer and support the same NVIDIA reference architectures.

Google Breathes New Life into Wristband Fitness Trackers with Fitbit Edge

Ramon T. Llamas — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

On October 12, 2026, Google announced the Fitbit Edge, a $180 fitness tracker with an AMOLED display and onboard GPS that ships October 27 and slots between the screenless Fitbit Air and the Pixel Watch 5. A Stephen Curry Special Edition costs $220. Pre-orders are open now through the Google Store. The heir apparent to the Fitbit Charge, the Fitbit Edge integrates with Google Health and Fitbit Premium to provide AI-driven analysis and advice — a feature that not only has become an expectation for wristbands and smartwatches but also something where Google continues to push the envelope to surface valuable health information. Along with the Fitbit Air, Google is breathing new life back into the aging wristband category.

HPE Networking Investor Day 2026: Integration Ahead of Plan Supports Higher Growth Targets

Brandon Butler, Paul Nicholson, Leslie Rosenberg, Taranvir Singh — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

At its September 30, Networking Investor Day, HPE raised its FY28 cost synergy target to $800 million, lifted its FY27 networking revenue growth outlook to the high-teens to low 20% range, and projected a high-teens revenue CAGR through FY29 led by AI datacenter demand, including a recent marquee win at Oracle and a $1.2 billion order from Vultr, which is the first announced customer for the HPE QFX5252 scale-up switch, purpose built for the AMD Helios platform. Delivering on these targets depends on easing supply constraints, ramping up Helios and Oracle shipments in a back-end-loaded FY27, and cross-selling the combined HPE and Juniper Networks portfolio through a unified partner program launching on November 1.

IDC Market Glance: Semiconductors and Enabling Technologies, 3Q26

Nina Turner, Phil Solis, Jim Hines, Helen Chiang, Galen Zeng, Jeff Janukowicz — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

The IDC Market Glance is a taxonomy document intended to visually depict a concise current-state view of the semiconductor market. For this market glance the semiconductor market the approach to define segments and subsegments is its functionality to use-case across the main industries that demand semiconductors rather than more traditional supply-chain approach.

The reader will have a clear picture of the main suppliers and which particular segments they are supplying which helps understand how the are developing their products and how they are profiling its offering. Additionally readers will gain insights from the IDC's take on the market's growth, strategies and innovation all supported by IDC's data.

IDC Survey: AI-Enabled Human Rights Management Trends, 2026

Bjoern Stengel — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey discusses AI-enabled human rights management trends in 2026. Human rights management and labor practices monitoring have emerged as the single most commonly cited AI-for-sustainability priority in IDC's 2026 AI and Sustainability Survey, named by 37.4% of respondents (n = 598) — ahead of product quality/safety and ethical business conduct (35.0% each) — and up 34.4% from a 27.8% baseline in 2024. Yet buyers in this space are not chasing transformation: Only 29.5% cite accelerating sustainable transformation as their primary driver, ranking human rights 12th of 13 ESG-AI topics on that measure.

Industry demand is led by utilities (51.4%), manufacturing (process, 50.8%), financial services (securities and investment, 48.0%), and software/IT services (47.4%), with manufacturing — discrete and retail trade rounding out the case study set — spanning regulated, labor-intensive, and supply chain–exposed sectors where labor-practices risk (unionized workforces, lending/investment screening, and consumer supply chain exposure) is driving AI investment in monitoring, validation, and traceability tools.