Nvidia scored record Q3 revenues; VMware's enterprise blockchain platform landed; and FireEye scored $400 million.

Nvidia's Q3 fiscal year 2021 revenues reached new heights driven in large part by the success of the company's Ampere GPU family.

Cisco bagged Banzai Cloud; VMware stuffed security Into SmartNICs; and AMD unveiled its Instinct MI100 GPU.

AMD's Instinct MI100 is designed to accelerate scientific research, and is the chipmaker's first GPU to go toe to toe with Nvidia in the data center.

Nvidia's latest HPC contributions include a larger frame buffer for its A100 GPUs, a desktop supercomputer, and 400 Gb/s InfiniBand NICs.

Aruba bumped Cisco from the Pentagon; AMD bagged Xilinx for $35B; and Juniper paid $450 million to buy 128 Technology.

Palo Alto Networks paid $670M for Expanse; Ericsson rode 5G, R&D to revive business growth; and Dell beefed up its data protection portfolio.

The chipmaker's oneAPI provides a common framework to build applications that can be deployed on any accelerator be it a CPU, GPU, or FPGA.

In what could be described as a feeding frenzy, chipmakers have dropped tens of billions of dollars in cash and stock options to acquire rival chipmakers.

“We have aligned with Dish from the beginning to ensure that this is [open RAN] compliant,” Intel's Dan Rodriguez said.

Amazon Cloud stalled while Google gained market share; Nokia underwent major reorganization; and Fortinet's earnings were unfazed by COVID-19.

VMware telco cloud jolted Samsung’s 5G; AMD added Xilinx to its chip armada; and Ericsson kickstarted its open RAN journey with virtualization.

The acquisition better positions AMD to compete against rival chipmaker Intel in CPUs and FPGAs.

"What Fungible has done, for the first time in the industry, for data storage, is what SDN did for networking," said Fungible's Benny Siman-Tov.

Cisco baked new chips into Silicon One; AT&T expanded Cisco’s IoT control center; and Verizon VNS vaulted Kubernetes to the edge.

The chips span the gamut from 12.8 Tb/s at the high end down to 3.2 Tb/s of routing or switching capacity at the low end.

Taking advantage of artificial intelligence isn't as simple as throwing more GPUs and FPGAs or other accelerators into a data center, wrote Dell'Oro's Baron Fung.

Qualcomm's system-on-a-chip based products will adhere to open RAN standards and universally support 5G on millimeter-wave and sub-6 GHz spectrum.

Verizon announced its multi-flavored 5G SDN; GTT sold its $2.15B infrastructure biz; and AMD boosted Microsoft Azure Data Explorer.

The announcement marks the latest win for the chipmaker, which has seen strong interest in its EPYC 2 server chips since they launched last year.

AT&T and Verizon 5G deployments boosted OpenStack work; Telefónica 5G tapped Juniper security; and Akamai got more SASE.

Intel's upcoming Xeon Scalable chips will gain secure enclaves, full memory encryption, firmware protections, and improved cryptographic performance.

The AI model was built using more than 30,000 X-ray images and on top of AWS SageMaker.

Nvidia took Arm off SoftBanks’ hands for $40 billion; Accenture bet $3 billion on Cloud First expansion; and Red Hat scored a Samsung 5G deal.