"The cost of operating dedicated infrastructure makes very little sense," Cisco VP of Data Center Networking Thomas Scheibe said.

"We evaluated several smart NICs in the market at the time, and Pensando really showed up in a big way," IBM's Satinder Sethi said.

Broadcom's 2nd gen Wi-Fi wireless connectivity chips offer the promise of more bandwidth, speed and availability than ever before for Wi-Fi.

IBM has published research into hybrid bonding, a technique that could reduce the size needed to connect multiple chiplets.

Nvidia's COOLERCHIPS research is unique for its deployment of two technologies never before combined: direct-to-chip and immersion cooling.

DriveNets' Network Cloud-AI product uses Ethernet, rather than InfiniBand, to connect large numbers of AI-optimized systems in a distributed cluster.

A year after being acquired by AMD for $1.9 billion, Pensando's co-founder details progress and the road ahead for DPU-based network innovation.

Increasing the speed of data as it moves through hardware is always good business practice, but equally important is reducing the power costs in data centers.

“We have availability, we are in trials, and are the first ones to do that. Others have announced chips," Cisco's Guru Shenoy said.

SVP Rob Shore claimed the vendor's indium phosphide fabrication plant sets it apart from optical networking rivals like Ciena.

Executives claim the custom ASICs play a big part in the vendor's firewall market dominance and have become a unique differentiator.

The carrier was carrying 52% of its production traffic on its disaggregated core routing platform at the end of 2022.

The company plans to take advantage of the CHIPS act and other government funding incentives.

"The governments have already woken up to it. ... At this time it is almost about being compliant with government mandates," Mamta Gupta said.

As green software capabilities become increasingly embedded in enterprise operations, "the impact will grow," Intel VP Arun Gupta said.

Nvidia, Dell Technologies, and VMware introduced a combined data center offering that Nvidia's Kevin Deierling said is "a huge moment for enterprise computing."

Samsung and Intel once again traded spaces for the largest market share. The companies are separated by a tenth of a percentage point.

The acquisition of Pensando and Xilinx distinguishes AMD as a more potent player beyond processors, Forrester's Glenn O'Donnell says.

The new platform is targeted at hyperscalers that need to support high-demand security, high-performance computing, and artificial intelligence workloads.

“The Hopper architecture is a giant leap over Ampere,” CEO Jensen Huang said. It’s “our largest generational leap ever.”

SiFive is one of several RISC-V chipmakers working with Intel as part of a $1 billion initiative announced last month.

The chipmaker plans to invest more than $36 billion in Europe over the next few years.

“You’re going to see a lot of exciting CPUs coming from us, and Grace is just the first example,” CEO Jensen Huang said.

The semiconductor giant announced a $1 billion initiative to help other chipmakers tailor their designs and migrate pipelines to Intel Foundry Services.