HiWire Consortium to be absorbed into Open Compute Project

The HiWire Consortium standardization efforts will be absorbed into a new Interconnects Sub-Project inside the Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP). All the Active Electrical Cable Specs were contributed to OCP and can be found on the OCP Contribution Database and the associated products are on display on the OCP Marketplace.The new Interconnects Sub-Project is led by Don Barnetson, Vice President for AEC Products at Credo. As a result of this...

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Broadcom launches its $61 billion bid for VMware

 Broadcom unveiled plans to acquire all of the outstanding shares of VMware in a cash-and-stock transaction that values VMware at approximately $61 billion, based on the closing price of Broadcom common stock on May 25, 2022. In addition, Broadcom will assume $8 billion of VMware net debt. The deal has the support of VMware's Board of Directors, along with Michael Dell and Silver Lake, which own 40.2% and 10% of VMware shares outstanding,The...

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Meta selects Azure as strategic cloud provider for AI research

Meta has selected Azure as a strategic cloud provider to help accelerate AI research and development. Specifically, Meta will utilize a dedicated Azure cluster of 5400 GPUs using the latest virtual machine (VM) series in Azure (NDm A100 v4 series, featuring NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core 80GB GPUs) for some of their large-scale AI research workloads.In addition, the companies agreed to collaborate to scale PyTorch adoption on Azure. “We are excited...

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Broadband Forum kick off App-Enabled Services Gateway project

The Broadband Forum has launched an app-enabled services gateway project to help service providers deploy, activate and manage third party applications such as parental controls, Wi-Fi analytics, streaming services and security solutions to consumers on a centralized Internet gateway device or other Customer Premises Equipment (CPE). Broadband Forum’s WT-492 ‘Software-Based Architecture for the App-Enabled Services Gateway - Design Principles’...

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Broadcom's Q2 revenue rises 23% yoy to $8.1 billion

Citing strong sales in networking and server storage segments, Broadcom reported revenue of $8.103 billion for its second quarter of fiscal year 2022, ended May 1, 2022, up 23% over the same period last year. Net income increased to $2.590 billion, compared to $1.493 billion a year ago."Broadcom's second quarter revenue accelerated sequentially, and was driven by strength in networking and server storage," said Hock Tan, President and CEO of Broadcom...

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Marvell posts sales of $1.447 billion

 Marvell reported net revenue of $1.447 billion for the first quarter of its fiscal 2023. The result exceeded the midpoint of the company's guidance provided on March 3, 2022. GAAP net loss for the first quarter of fiscal 2023 was $(166) million, or $(0.20) per diluted share. Non-GAAP net income for the first quarter of fiscal 2023 was $448 million, or $0.52 per diluted share. Cash flow from operations for the first quarter was $194.8 million."We...

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Webinar replay: Solving the interconnect density bottleneck in 51.2T switch

https://youtu.be/ggaOx2qs5gsWebinar replay - first presented on 04-May-2022With the first generation of 51.2T switches running at 100 Gbps per lane on the horizon, the market will soon be considering the pros and cons of different board design choices for managing so many high capacity channels.  Will co-packaged optics (CPO) or near-packaged optics (NPO) scale to meet the bandwidth density challenge?In this one-hour webinar, we hear from Dr....

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Video: Simplifying Connectivity at Cloud Scale - Prosimo

https://youtu.be/oT6fNlB1Kj4Enterprises, including major financial institutions, have been struggling to provide connectivity at cloud scale for all of their application workloads, says Faraz Siddiqui, Head of Solutions Architecture, Prosimo.Filmed at ONUG Spring 2022.https://prosimo.ioWho is Prosimo? CTO presentationTuesday, April 06, 2021  Prosimo, SD-WAN, Start-Ups  https://youtu.be/58YMebmBJwMProsimo, a start-up...

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