MILAN (AP) — A victory for Serie B club Cremonese at Serie A side Parma wasn’t enough to save Marco Giampaolo’s job.
The coach was fired immediately after guiding Cremonese to a 2-0 win in the second round of the Italian Cup on Tuesday.
The moves comes after Cremonese lost its opening two matches in the second division without scoring a goal, and conceding four. But it had also won its Italian Cup opener, beating Sampdoria 2-0 in the first round.
Giampaolo was hired in March but couldn’t prevent Cremonese from being relegated from Serie A last season as the Lombardy team finished third from bottom.
Former Leicester and England striker Jamie Vardy left Cremonese in June after one season.
Cremonese said in a statement that it thanked Giampaolo and his staff for their “professionalism, effort and dedication since their arrival in Cremona.” A new coach was not immediately named.
Parma coach Carlos Cuesta could also be at risk, with his team having also lost its opening two matches in Serie A.
See AP’s full soccer coverage here
Parma's El Bilal Toure controls the ball in front of Cremonese's Tommaso Berti during an Italian Cup soccer match between Parma and Cremonese, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2026, in Parma, Italy. (Massimo Paolone/LaPresse via AP)
Parma's Matija Frigan, left, plays the ball as Cremonese's Fellipe Jack defends during an Italian Cup soccer match between Parma and Cremonese, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2026, in Parma, Italy. (Massimo Paolone/LaPresse via AP)
Parma's Jose David Romero, front, battles for the ball with Cremonese's Fellipe Jack during an Italian Cup soccer match between Parma and Cremonese, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2026, in Parma, Italy. (Massimo Paolone/LaPresse via AP)
FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep 2, 2026--
Penguin Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: PENG ), the AI Factory Platform Company, today announced its participation at AI Infra Summit 2026, taking place September 15-17 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. Penguin will host product demonstrations at booth #520 and deliver a speaking session during the conference program.
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The AI Infra Summit brings together industry professionals who represent every layer of the AI infrastructure stack including compute, memory, interconnects, networking layers, and more working together to meet the growing demand of inference and agentic AI.
As enterprises shift from AI training to inference and agentic workloads, the speed and accuracy with which they can access data increasingly determines the cost of running those workloads. Penguin is addressing that constraint through its Full-Stack AI Factory Platform, including its MemoryAI KV Cache Server designed to improve performance for large language model inference and helps organizations achieve measurable ROI.
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Penguin will display several demonstrations at its booth #520 that will give participants a firsthand view of its innovative AI solutions.
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About Penguin Solutions
Penguin Solutions is the AI Factory Platform Company. We design, build, and manage next-generation data centers for enterprises, sovereign AI initiatives, and neocloud providers.
With deep design expertise at the intersection of data center AI infrastructure and memory solutions, our Full-Stack AI Factory Platform combines differentiated infrastructure software, advanced memory, compute systems, end-to-end services, and industry-leading partner technologies to help customers accelerate deployment, optimize token economics, and maximize the return on their AI investments.
Learn more at PenguinSolutions.com.
Penguin Solutions MemoryAI KV cache server utilizes CXL memory technology to address the critical "memory wall" challenge in AI inferencing. The innovative solution delivers up to 11 TB of CXL-based memory engineered to optimize performance of enterprise scale inference, including agentic AI.
