Verizon tapped Cisco for a NFV services push; HPE's Neri contracted COVID-19; and Cisco updated its IBN portfolio for full stack automation.

AI continues to be a core component of Intel's portfolio. The third-generation Xeon Scalable chips add bfloat16 support, and Intel debuted an AI-first FPGA.

Snowcone is now the smallest of AWS’ Snow family of physical devices that are designed to run outside the data center.

IBM bought cloud security startup Spanugo; Nokia added Broadcom 5G chips to its ReefShark portfolio; and GSMA cancelled MWC LA.

Earlier this year Nokia announced plans to use Intel and Marvell's base station chips in its ReefShark AirScale modules.

Cryptominers attacked Azure; Amazons custom Graviton2 chips landed in in AWS EC2; and SDxCentral's weekly wrap podcast.

Plus, AMD’s second-generation EPYC processors are available on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud.

IBM quit the facial recognition business; A10, Dell teamed up on application delivery; and Alibaba Cloud went on a hiring spree.

The announcement comes weeks after the Taiwanese chipmaker announced plans to build the facility.

The company is recruiting IT professionals with expertise in networking, database management, servers, chips, and artificial intelligence.

Cisco Live postposed in light of recent events; Dell, VMware supercharged AI; and Chipmakers lobbied for $37B in aid for US fabs.

The new Dell EMC Ready Solutions use the Bitfusion feature in vSphere 7 to manage and allocate a pool of virtual GPU accelerators, which can then be shared across

Lobbyists within the semiconductor industry are pushing for $37 billion in subsidies to support the manufacture of domestic chip fabs.

With 5 million CPU cores, 50,000 GPUs, and 483 petaFLOPs of cumulative performance, IBM claims it's the largest public-private computing partnership ever created.

400 Gb/s optics are the sweet spot because they can be deployed practically anywhere in the network and still deliver peak line-speeds Nokia's Kyle Hollasch said.

The deal comes less than a week after the White House reportedly spoke with Intel and the Taiwanese chipmaker to build U.S. foundries.

The new Ampere-based AI accelerator unifies training and inference workloads into a single high-performance form factor.

Dell and Apstra targeted enterprise SONiC adoption with networking hardware, software, and enterprise-grade technical support.

The U.S. stands a chance of losing its leadership position in the semiconductor space if it insists on tightening restrictions.

This performance claim becomes increasingly important as the broader market continues to shift workloads to the cloud.

The networking vendor announced the new routing platforms as part of its boldly named “Internet for the Future” strategy targeting service providers.

Xilinx announced the Versal adaptive compute acceleration platform in September 2019 and said it will be generally available in Q4.

IBM Cloud, Microsoft, Dell Technologies, HPE, VMware, Nutanix, Lenovo, and Supermicro platforms support the latest AMD processors.

“Ultimately, each cloud can’t hide from public, open-source benchmarks,” said Cockroach Labs' Andy Woods.