The equipment provides an environment on which to run virtual network functions like those for SD-WAN.

The OCP-compliant Inspur system includes Nvidia GPUs and enables composability via PCIe fabric-based, composable infrastructure from Liqid.

AT&T peddled its 5G lead; AWS launched Bottlerocket Container OS; and Splunk made security hygiene sexy.

Broadcom's Tomahawk, Trident 3, and Jericho platforms are in the crosshairs of Mellanox's new ASIC.

Tofino’s P4 programmability is what makes it important to Stateless, a startup targeting colocation providers and enterprises customers with its interconnection platform.

SONiC is now supported on Juniper’s QFX5210 single ASIC platform, including support for leaf and spine deployments in data centers.

AT&T slashed more jobs; Google targeted telcos with Global Mobile Edge Cloud platform; and Nokia hedged its 5G Chip bets.

The announcements come days after Marvell unveiled its latest Octeon chips and over a week after Intel unveiled its own Atom-based RAN chip.

Oracle, which holds a $40 million stake in Ampere, has announced plans to leverage the Altra platform in its Gen 2 Cloud.

Coronavirus canceled more tech events; Equinix paid $335 million for Packet; and Rakuten Mobile dismissed open RAN skeptics.

Xilinx claims its smartNIC will allow customers to offload 90% of Open vSwitch processing from the CPU for an improvement in packet throughput of more than 500%.

The low-code vendor is Apple's only direct software play in the B2B space.

Nokia CEO walked the plank; VMware's winning streak came to a screeching halt; and Marvell injected new life into its infrastructure chips.

The chips are designed to power networking equipment like switches, routers, secure gateways, firewalls, base stations, and smartNICs.

Mellanox, which is being acquired by Nvidia in a $6.9 billion deal, announced the pair of SmartNICs at VMworld last summer.

The layoffs, which will affect between 128 and 1,100 Intel employees around the world, come after a record quarter for the chipmaker.

Elenion designs system-on-chip silicon photonics technology targeted at telecom operators, data centers, and networking platforms.

The new N2D VMs can support machine types with up to 224 virtual CPUs, which is the largest general-purpose VM on Google’s Compute Engine.

While AI has traditionally taken place in the cloud, Arm is confident the next phase will see AI move to the edge of the network and into endpoints.

Arista networks buys Big Switch; VMware acquires AIOps vendor Nyansa to bolster SD-WAN; plus the latest VC/M&A news from January.

Intel acquired Habana Labs seven weeks ago for $2 billion to bolster its position in the highly competitive data center processor space.

Several incumbent networking players, including Cisco, Dell Technologies, VMware, Juniper Networks, and Extreme Networks held “multiple meetings” with Big Switch.

“These technologies are not standalone technologies, they’re actually reinforcing,” Intel CEO Bob Swan said.

AMD CEO Lisa Su described the Ryzen Threadripper 3990X as the “very first 64-core processor in the mainstream in a desktop form factor.”