Ethernet
Nvidia Cranks Its BlueField-4 DPU To 800 Gbps
At its GTC Washington event Tuesday, Nvidia took the wraps off Bluefield-4, the newest generation of its data processing unit (DPU). The new generation moves data from storage to ...Full Article
Intel Moving Forward with New Xeon Lineup
In September of last year, Intel launched its Xeon 6900P Granite Ridge processors and got themselves back in the game against AMD. This week, Intel continued to expand its processor line with ...Full Article
Why Nvidia Bought Mellanox: ‘Datacenters Will Be…Like High Performance Computers’
“Future datacenters of all kinds will be built like high performance computers,” said Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang during a phone briefing on Monday after Nvidia revealed scooping up the ...Full Article
Nvidia Wins Mellanox Stakes for $6.9 Billion
The long-rumored acquisition of Mellanox came to fruition this morning with GPU chip maker Nvidia’s announcement that it has purchased the high-performance network interconnect maker for $6.9 billion – ...Full Article
Mellanox Hires New CFO Amid Microsoft Acquisition Rumors
Amid pre-holiday media speculation that Mellanox could be a Microsoft acquisition target, the networking powerhouse has announced that Doug Ahrens, formerly of GlobalLogic, has been named chief financial officer ...Full Article
Telecom Carriers Prefer Juniper, Cisco
The quest for bigger network pipes need to transport big data is driving the market for Ethernet switching and other enterprise network equipment. Industry tracker IHS Markit reported this ...Full Article
NVMe Gaining Traction For Datacenter Storage
As flash based storage makes inroads in the datacenter, a growing list of IT infrastructure vendors are embracing networking technologies like Non-Volatile Memory Express, or NVMe, as a way ...Full Article
Mellanox Readies First 200 Gb/s Silicon Photonics Devices
Mellanox Technologies will announce an “important milestone” on the road to high data rate 200Gb/s InfiniBand and Ethernet networks during the Optical Fiber Conference this week in Anaheim, Calif. ...Full Article
Avago-Broadcom Deal Creates Comms Chip Leader
The inexorable shift of chip making to Asia continued this week with the announcement that Singapore-based semiconductor manufacturer Avago Technologies Ltd. will acquire U.S. mainstay Broadcom Corp. in a ...Full Article
Juniper Networks Brings Computing Network Power to Wall St.
Juniper Networks today (April 6) unveiled an application acceleration switch and packet flow accelerator module designed to bring computing performance and customizable logic into the network to accelerate critical ...Full Article
