Marvell advances its high-speed interconnects on TSMC's 3nm node

Marvell demonstrated high-speed, ultra-high bandwidth silicon interconnects produced on TSMC's 3-nanometer (3nm) process. This includes Marvell's 112G XSR SerDes (serializer/de-serializer), Long Reach SerDes, PCIe Gen 6 / CXL 3.0 SerDes, and a 240 Tbps parallel die-to-die interconnect.SerDes and parallel interconnects serve as high-speed pathways for exchanging data between chips or silicon components inside chiplets. Together with 2.5D and 3D packaging,...

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New Middle Mile: Hyperscaler and cloud trends drive middle mile enhancements

In this video, Jason Taylor, VP of Large Enterprise Sales of Zayo explains why they are positioned for fiber success in 2023. The following are Jason's key talking points:- Zayo has 16 million fiber miles and is connected to 44,000 buildings and 1,400 data centers, making them prepared to execute in the fiber space.- Zayo is upgrading their fiber to 400Gbps and will likely need to upgrade to 800Gbps in the near future to keep up with the growing...

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SK hynix samples 12-layer HBM3 chip with 24 GB capacity

SK hynix announced sampling of the first 12-layer HBM3 product with a 24 GB memory capacity -- the largest in the industry to date. HBM (High Bandwidth Memory) vertically interconnects multiple DRAM chips and dramatically increases data processing speed in comparison to traditional DRAM products. HBM3 is the 4th generation product, succeeding the previous generations HBM, HBM2 and HBM2E."The company succeeded in developing the 24GB package product...

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OCP Switch Abstraction Interface moves under LF's DENT Project

The Linux Foundation (LF) announced the incorporation of the Open Compute Switch Abstraction Interface (SAI) into the open source DENT Network Operating System (NOS) project.The DENT project, a Linux-based network operating system (NOS), has been designed to empower disaggregated networking solutions for enterprises and data centers. The Linux Foundation said that by incorporating OCP's SAI, an open-source Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) for...

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Lumen launches 400G IP transit ports across its Tier 1 Internet backbone

Lumen launched 400G IP transit ports across its Tier 1 Internet backbone network in the U.S. and EMEA. The service is targetted at businesses, hyperscalers and content providers needing ultra-high bandwidth connections to efficiently support massive IP transit traffic. The service is now available in 8 markets and will be expanded across the footprint throughout the year.Lumen's AS3356 network is the number one peered network in the world based on...

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F5's quarterly revenue of 11% yoy, cites macro economics for 9% job cuts

F5 reported revenue of $703 million for its second quarter of fiscal year 2023 revenue, up 11% from $634 million in fiscal year 2022. Global services revenue grew 8% from the year-ago period while product revenue grew 14%, reflecting 43% systems revenue growth and software revenue that was down 13% from the year-ago period.GAAP net income for the second quarter of fiscal year 2023 was $81 million, or $1.34 per diluted share compared to $56 million,...

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Seagate agrees $300 Million penalty for selling hard disks to Huawei

Seagate Technology Holdings announced a settlement agreement with the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security that resolves allegations that Seagate’s sales of hard disk drives to Huawei between August 17, 2020 and September 29, 2021 did not comply with the U.S. Export Administration Regulations.Under the terms of the settlement agreement, Seagate has agreed to pay $300 million to the U.S. Department of Commerce, to be paid...

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Rambus GDDR6 PHY hits 24 Gbps performance benchmark

The Rambus GDDR6 PHY delivers a market-leading data rate of up to 24 Gigabits per second (Gbps), providing 96 Gigabytes per second (GB/s) of bandwidth per GDDR6 memory device. GDDR6 offering enables cost-efficient, high-bandwidth memory performance for AI/ML, graphics and networking applications.“With the new level of performance achieved by our GDDR6 PHY, designers can deliver the bandwidth needed by the most demanding workloads,” said Sean...

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