Intel Develops Custom ASICs, Next-Gen Encryption for US Government
Intel has signed on to DARPA's SAHARA and DPRIVE projects to develop custom ASICs for the U.S. government.
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VMware stuffs security into smartNICs
Effort builds collab with chipmakers to provide a consistent management platform for distributed compute across accelerators
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SK Hynix gobbles up Intel NAND
The $9 billion deal includes Intel's SSD business, NAND component, wafer business, and the Dalian memory manufacturing facility in China.
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Compute Express Link eyes hardware push in 2021
CXL has big beneficial implications for a wide range of industries, including high-performance computing and hyperscalers like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft
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MapR Slashes Jobs as It Looks to Stay Afloat
The company pushed back against published reports that it was shutting down and that the job cuts were hitting much of MapR’s executive suite. -
Intel, Linux Foundation launch open source silicon groups
Both new groups formed just days before the granddaddy of open source hardware groups, Open Compute Project (OCP), holds its annual summit. All three focus on “fundamentally different areas”
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Nvidia will buy Mellanox Technologies for $6.9B
The two chipmakers claim that, between the,m they count every major cloud service provider and computer maker as customers
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Marvell in Talks to Buy Cavium, Creating $14B Chipmaker, Report Says
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Hedvig raises $21.5M and expands to new markets
Hedvig’s founder and CEO Avinash Lakshman comes from Amazon and Facebook
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Midokura Sticks to Its Roots in Raising a $20M Series B
New investor Simplex is part of the round.