SDxCentral Magazine - Issue 2
7-Eleven networks in Taiwan, Verizon’s CTO, OpenAI's networking, and AMD's head of networking tech
News - AI Hardware, Networking
The latest news on networking, cloud, and AI infrastructure
Featured
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Cisco-backed chiplet interconnect upstart in line for acquisition: report
Early talks with Arm led to nothing, but investors reportedly informed of purchase
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Man behind Netflix’s data center network cut in brutal layoffs
6% of its global workforce were slashed, including architects and software engineers
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Cisco nabs Nvidia for pluggable power up, snuggles closer to SONiC
More power out and less power consumption
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Meta builds custom 'IceCube' AI network switch using Nvidia's Spectrum-6 ASICs
Switch pairs FBOSS OS with 102T chip for 100K+ GPU clusters
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Nvidia-backed Upscale unveils fabric that lets engineers break vendor lock-in and mix rival XPUs
Upscale’s Token Fabric to create network bridge for the dream of heterogeneous computing
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Lambda poaches AWS director to lead software and AI networking engineering
Fiachra Groarke joins neocloud given early access to Nvidia CPO switches
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HPE’s Rami Rahim rallies robust $800M synergy roll around rocking market, integration results
Analysts see potential for financial windfall to fuel investment gains at the expense of rivals Cisco and Arista
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HPE Networking chief links $1.2B Vultr neocloud win to ‘revenue synergy’ opportunity
The deal is HPE's first tied to its AMD Helios AI Rack system
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Nvidia’s data center networking portfolio hit by claims of ‘willful’ patent infringement
Non-practicing entity uses supply chain and neocloud links to bring Texas lawsuit
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Optical interconnect startup CScale emerges from stealth with investments from Nvidia, Intel
Californian startup raised $145m in Series C funding round
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Global memory stocks down to just one week’s supply as drought digs in until 2028
Bad news, more bad news as Smith's chief trading officer gives AI storage and compute a reality check
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Coherent hedges its optics bets, backs CPO and NPO alike
Nvidia-backed vendor plays both sides of the optics war with one photonics stack to rule them all
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Huawei doubles down on AI networks with agentic automation and high-density switches
Chinese giant targets AI ‘compute factories’ and maturing near-packaged optics
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Broadcom comes out fighting in Nvidia AI networking race
EMEA network chief touts Ethernet lead; lauds OpenAI protocol as networking standard for scale-up and out
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Reality is the real AI networking bottleneck
Will MEC play a role in opening up opportunities?
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SDxCentral Magazine out now: How 7-Eleven networks Taiwan together
Understand the network behind Taiwan’s own backbone
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Huawei bets big on near-packaged optics with 7.2T module to fuel AI scaling
Vendor champions open NPO play over CPO for AI networks
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Ciena sees $1.6B in earnings with supply chain optimism
Vendor reports telecom bounceback and neocloud love in latest financials
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Broadcom slams AI silicon-fueled Q3, promises double-double on the way
And VMware continues to tick along
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Meta bakes networking on-chip in custom silicon designed to cut CPU hops
MTIA 300’s house onboard NICs to ditch PCIe bottlenecks
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Nvidia claims 'fastest-growing’ networking title as Spectrum-X sales soar
Money-printing business unit shows no signs of slowing
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Nvidia chip gem Groq swipes Meta network chief Ola Kasali
Networking head hire shows LPU maker still standing on two feet after Nvidia's mega-bucks infusion this year
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Meta’s custom transport protocol embraces packet chaos to boost AI throughput
MetaRoCE reimagines Ethernet data transfers to fix network latency at AI scale
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Scale-in? Nvidia’s ‘fifth’ pillar of AI networking rests on shaky ground
Nebulous Hot Chip updates include apparent acceleration for north-south traffic and a multiplane configuration ‘spotlight’
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SK Hynix banks on optical interconnects to defend its HBM crown
South Korean giant backs light to unlock next-gen AI memory performance
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NEC taps Cornelis to aid AI and HPC networking in Japan
Successful tests in Europe will see the pair deploy Omni-Path and eventual Ethernet-based platforms
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Cerebras unveils low latency AI workload speed demon rack-scale platform
CS-4 promises 30-times faster AI workloads compared to GPU platforms with latency as low as two milliseconds
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Industry giants unite to define open co-packaged optics for next-gen AI infrastructure
Lightmatter and OCP work to standardize silicon photonic interconnects for future AI cluster backbones