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AT&T Abandons 5G Cloud Stack, Microsoft Picks Up Pieces

The underlying trend and realization AT&T confronted is clear: mobile network operators, no matter how invested and talented in cloud computing, are no match for the might of hyperscalers. Read more.

Intel Next-Gen Data Center Chips Delayed

Despite the delay, Intel will still beat rival AMD to PCIe Gen 5.0, CXL, and DDR5 Memory when Sapphire Rapids launches in the first quarter of 2022. Read more.

Ransomware Task Forces Scores $450K, So What’s Next?

“This needs to be, even at the head of state level, something that’s brought up in every conversation between presidents and prime ministers as a problem that can no longer be treated as status quo,” IST CEO Philip Reiner said. Read more.

SDxCentral’s Top 10 ‒ June 2021

Cisco hired Stephen Augustus as its first head of open source; CEOs of Nvidia and Arm discussed their merger; and Cisco released IoT edge routers. Read more.