On the heels of its $6.9 billion Mellanox purchase, the chip company used the GPU Technology Conference to highlight its data center momentum.

From innovative startups like Lightbits Labs and RackTop Systems to new super-fast, low-latency technologies, storage is exciting. Trust us.

The companies contributed both Minipack and the Arista 7368X4 switch to OCP.

Marvell announced its 400 Gb/s silicon for edge data centers, Netronome unveiled new SmartNICs for hyperscalers, and Stordis launched two bare-metal switches powered by programmable Barefoot Tofino ASICs.

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”

Adlink and Google Cloud partner on IoT; Red Hat debuts a Kubernetes-native Java framework; and news, partnerships, and releases from RSA.

The APIs are designed to complement ongoing work by 3GPP and other industry groups working for common, open, multi-vendor networks.

The Chinese equipment vendor’s rotating chairman said that the U.S. government has no evidence to support its claims that Huawei's equipment has been used for espionage.

The chip giant also announced its new FPGA acceleration card for telecommunications service providers’ 5G use cases.

The project is being supported by technology partners Intel, Cisco, Qualcomm, Nokia, Altiostar, and Tech Mahindra.

“This N1 platform is really about the core compute you need in the hyperscale data center, at the 5G base station, or at an internet gateway,” said Drew Henry,

The vendor last year said it would open a software development center and ASIC design center in Austin, Texas

Vendors including Cisco, Juniper, and Arista all recently introduced merchant silicon chips into the mix.

The chipmaker initially partnered with nine North American data center operators, but “the goal is to expand it globally,” Nvidia’s Tony Paikeday says.

The platform divides the two flows – the control layer and the data layer – and handles them in a way that makes sense for each.

ZTE releases a cybersecurity statement; Microsoft wins $1.76M contract with the DoD; CenturyLink opens security center in Singapore.

First came the disaggregation of software from hardware. Now comes the disaggregation of functions on a chip.

The chip giant also unveiled 10nm silicon for data center servers and 5G wireless access base stations and at a CES 2019 news conference.

Huawei says it will still continue its long-term strategic partnerships with Intel, but that computing demands have become more diverse.

Sprint is touting a new Samsung device while T-Mobile completed a 5G data session with Ericsson and Intel.

Open source and containers found themselves at the center of M&A activity this year.

The news comes as other manufactures including TSMC race to bring their next-gen silicon to market — and challenge Intel’s long-standing chip dominance in the data center.

The networking-focused hardware is built for the Open19 Foundation infrastructure platform.

The big hyperscalers use field programmable gate array technology on standard servers in their data centers. But there’s a trend for other enterprises to emulate these hyperscalers.