IFS makes a splash: $1B fund, Arm & RISC-V support, Open Chiplet Platform

by James E. CarrollThe newly established Intel Foundry Services (IFS) announced several initiatives to accelerate its entrance into the semiconductor fabrication market: a $1 billion investment fund, support for Arm and RISC-V in addition to x86, and pioneering work with chiplet architecture based on 3D packaging technology.The new $1 billion investment fund has three aims:Equity investments in disruptive startups.Strategic investments to accelerate...

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Esperanto looks to IFS to fab its RISC-V-based AI accelerator chips

Esperanto Technologies, a start-up based in Mountain View, California, confirmed that it will use Intel Foundry Services silicon and chiplet packaging technologies to advance its RISC-V-based technology and deliver its massively parallel AI acceleration silicon solutions spanning from cloud to edge.Esperanto Technologies is developing massively-parallel 64-bit RISC-V-based Tensor compute cores currently delivered in the form of a single chip with...

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KT and Savills plan subsea cable linking 6 APAC countries

KT and Savills Korea announced plans for a new 9,000 km submarine cable system linking 6 countries in APAC: South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Indonesia, Philippines, and Singapore.Savills Korea and KT held an MOU signing ceremony at KT’s Songpa office building located at Songpa-gu, Seoul.  KT will conduct consulting based on its years of experience in design, construction, and operation of submarine cables. KT will also participate as a strategic...

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Norway-UK cable achieves 800G line rate with Ciena

The NO-UK submarine cable system between Norway and the United Kingdom achieved a record-breaking 800 Gbps line rate using Ciena’s GeoMesh Extreme powered by its WaveLogic 5 Extreme coherent optical technology.NO-UK’s open submarine cable system, featuring eight fiber pairs, runs for 700km between Stavanger (Norway) and Newcastle (UK) and is the shortest low-latency direct submarine route between the two nations. The system was developed by Altibox...

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Ceragon releases Disaggregated Cell Site Gateway (DCSG)

Ceragon Networks announced generally availability of its IP-50FX Disaggregated Cell Site Gateway (DCSG) solution, which integrates a cell site router and a radio indoor unit.  The IP-50FX integrates Ceragon's DCSG hardware platform with an advanced network operating system (NOS) software by IP Infusion and Ceragon's own Radio-Aware Open Networking (RAON) software. With RAON the cell site gateway acts as a virtual IDU, with a single IP address...

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VMware announces 4 executive appointments

VMware welcome 4 executives to its leadership team:Laura Heisman has joined the company as chief marketing officer. She brings to the role more than 25 years experience in reaching enterprise, developer, consumer and corporate audiences through her prior leadership roles at GitHub, where she elevated awareness and built developer fans of the largest and most advanced development platform in the world, and Citrix.Sylvain Cazard will lead the Asia...

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Keysight and LG Electronics collaborate on 6G

Keysight Technologies collaborated with LG Electronics to demonstrate a 6G radio frequency (RF) front-end (RFFE) module at the recent 2021 Korea Science and Technology Exhibition in December.The demonstration leveraged Keysight’s 6G Sub-Terahertz (THz) R&D Testbed and LG’s 6G radio front-end transceiver to generate terabit data wireless transmissions. Keysight’s 6G testbed supports a scalable number of frequency bands and ultra-wide bandwidths....

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Intelsat to provide inflight connectivity to LATAM

 LATAM Airlines Group will install Intelsat’s connectivity service in its fleet of Airbus narrow body aircraft including A320ceo and A320neo variants, based in Chile, Ecuador, Peru and Colombia. The installations will include up to 160 total aircraft and will take three years to complete. Approximately 70 new-delivery aircraft are expected to be installed with Intelsat’s 2Ku system by Airbus, prior to delivery to LATAM, at its manufacturing...

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Aryaka adds to its exec team

Aryaka announced three executive appointments:Dennis Monner, currently Aryaka’s Managing Director and former CEO of Secucloud, has been promoted to the newly created role of Chief Commercial Officer.Renuka Nadkarni will served in the newly created role of Chief Product Officer. Renuka comes from F5 where she was the CTO and product leader for F5’s security portfolio.DeAndra Jean-Louis has been appointed Chief Customer Officer. She comes from Palo...

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