The new appliances come amid another quarter of double-digit growth and signal a new focus on 5G security from the core to the edge.

“V1 is all about performance. How do we get the highest single threaded performance you can get,” Arm's Chris Bergey said.

Apple pledged $430 billion for 5G and jobs; Dell tapped Secureworks for managed XDR; and Kubernetes hit a maturity milestone.

Coin miner malware attacks increased 53% sequentially in the fourth quarter of 2020, according to research from Avira Protection Labs.

LiquidStack data tanks suspend servers in a two-phase liquid coolant, reducing water and power consumption compared to air or liquid-cooled systems.

Every single data center will deploy DPUs within five years and it all comes down to security and overheads, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said.

Microsoft will pay $19.7B for Nuance; IBM named its infrastructure spinoff; and Comcast software jumped into the CNCF Sandbox.

Nvidia's BlueField-3 DPU is capable of offloading 300 CPU cores worth of SDN, storage, security, and AI workloads.

Nvidia is building an Arm-based CPU to alleviate bottlenecks for the world's largest AI supercomputers.

McAfee sold its enterprise business for $4 billion; VMware joined the cloud-native app security frenzy; and Orca scored a whale of a Series C.

Intel's chief plotted revival with new silicon; Verizon said the pandemic worsened mobile security; and Google scored a legal win over Oracle.

The chipmaker's data center processors are finally moving to 10 nanometers after more than five years being stuck at 14 nanometers.

While performance gains remain a key promise of the new architecture, security and AI are for the first time first-class citizens with the launch of Armv9.

VMware sees 5G core opportunities; TSMC wants to spend big on chip fabs; and AT&T boosted its SD-WAN security options.

The company's latest capex infusion comes as the semiconductor shortage worsens and Intel enters the foundry fray.

Cisco Duo offers passwordless security; Innovium certified its switch silicon; and Cisco, Huawei dominated a down enterprise network market.

The Fungible Data Center are pre-populated racks with pools of CPU, GPU, or storage resources that are allocated on the fly by the company's software platform.

Intel dropped $20B on overhaul; IBM expanded cloud security suite; and Cisco gained HashiCorp insights.

Intel's entrance into the foundry business and $20 billion investment in U.S. fabs comes in the wake of a turbulent year that set the stage for Gelsinger's return.

The chipmaker today announced a new division called Intel Foundry Services that will oversee contract semiconductor manufacturing.

Nokia scored a key 5G contract, and looks to reset its operations; and Google cut its U.S. investment pledge.

Nokia conveyed confidence that it will return to or increase growth across all four of its revamped business units, but Mobile Networks, its largest business, remains its most challenged.

Intel has signed on to DARPA's SAHARA and DPRIVE projects to develop custom ASICs for the U.S. government.

Server vendors moved quickly to roll out new systems based on AMD's all-new data center chips.