SDxCentral Magazine - Issue 2
7-Eleven networks in Taiwan, Verizon’s CTO, OpenAI's networking, and AMD's head of networking tech
News - Mergers, Acquisitions & Funding
The latest news on networking, cloud, and AI infrastructure
Featured
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Cisco-backed chiplet interconnect upstart in line for acquisition: report
Early talks with Arm led to nothing, but investors reportedly informed of purchase
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AT&T to sell Mexico unit to Grupo Televisa and Fintech Holdings for $2B
An exit from the market has been on the table for a while
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AMD, Intel back optical upstart pushing for denser photonics inside AI racks
Salience Labs banks on strategic silicon diversity for its optical circuit switches
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Nokia finally sheds campus edge business
Aurelius snaps up ECE for undisclosed sum
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Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile US stocks sink, tech executive lashes out on SpaceX’s spectrum serve
Are we closer to a Starlink Mobile launch?
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SpaceX to acquire Grain's 800 MHz spectrum assets to further advance carrier ambitions
As the company continues to push to challenge US telcos
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EU backs QIA quantum network prototype with $53M grant
The 42-month program aims to connect two metropolitan quantum networks over long-distance fiber using quantum repeaters
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Seagate, Toshiba compete to buy the bit that actually records data on their drives: report
Pair battling it out for TDK's hard drive head unit so it can focus on batteries and sensors
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Nu Quantum CEO on the $15B Q-day networking proposition
Carmen Palacios-Berraquero warns against setting post-quantum network standards too soon
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Inseego completes Nokia fixed wireless buy, but love-in set to continue
Edge vendor now proud owner of Nokia's FWA entity
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Nebius acquires inference optimization startup Inferize to accelerate AI deployments
Alums behind Intel-acquired Granulate snapped up to cut cold starts and boost GPU efficiency
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Optical interconnect startup CScale emerges from stealth with investments from Nvidia, Intel
Californian startup raised $145m in Series C funding round
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AMD acquires AI research firm World Labs in all-stock deal worth $8.2B
World Labs’ CEO will join chip giant as EVP and chief scientist
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NetApp expands AI infra push with Peak:AIo acquisition
Third acquisition in as many months boosts AI cloud storage efforts
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Pat Gelsinger-backed optical startup raises $27.5M to scale VCSELs for AI links
PicoJool eyes staff growth and low-power micro-laser modules
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Iridium $8B takeover gets stockholder approval
Rocket Lab almost there with milestone satellite acquisition
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Airspan pilfers wireless assets from collapsing Cambium
Vultures circle as job cuts and administrators loom large
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Nutanix targets agentic AI workload management with Ryax acquisition
French compute orchestrator founded by Bull alums joins VMware rival
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Former Lambda, Groq alums secure $875M to build ‘memory-first’ AI inference chips
Neocloud veterans bank on low-power DRAM to power custom inference servers
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Cornelis targets inference accelerator utilization with $205M expansion into scale-up
Startup challenges Nvidia and Broadcom with Active Compute Fabric
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Ciena launches VC fund to back next-gen networking startups
$200 million tranche optical interconnect startup
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Nvidia’s Groq deal facing DOJ probe amid regulator scrutiny into acqui-hires: report
Justice Department investigation joins FTC inquiry into potential de facto big tech mergers
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Nvidia offloads its all-star AI security response to Hugging Face horror
The Linux Foundation is now home to agent-based alliance as 'GitLab of AI' becomes part of chip giant family
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Palo Alto Networks earnings highlight SASE and network security wins
CyberArk acquisition also begins to compensate as vendor snaps up agentic AI player Console in fifth acquisition of the year
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Canada commits $140M to Xanadu quantum manufacturing project
$643M project aims to build a domestic chip-to-rack supply chain for fault-tolerant quantum computers
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Optics startup Quintessent secures $40M to revolutionize interconnects for AI
Ciena among backers of DWDM link player using gallium arsenide over supply-chain-constrained indium phosphide
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Charter CEO mixed on post-Cox job plans, capex; confident on enterprise opportunities
Frontline jobs set for growth, while corporate management positions could take a hit
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California approves $34.5B Charter-Cox deal
State regulator sets number of conditions, including $275 million investment to upgrade the company’s network in the Golden State