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Microsoft Will Pay $19.7B for Nuance to Boost Health Care AI

The acquisition is the software giant’s second largest under CEO Sataya Nadella, who paid $26.2 billion for LinkedIn in 2016. Read more.

IBM’s Infrastructure Spinoff Gets a Name

Big Blue's managed infrastructure business will live on as Kyndryl. Read more.

Comcast Monitoring Tools Dive Into CNCF Sandbox

Comcast's Kuberhealthy and Trickster projects are the latest CNCF sandbox entrants. Both tools aim to simplify cloud-native environment monitoring. Read more.

Nvidia’s Grace CPU Targets AI Bottlenecks

Nvidia is building an Arm-based CPU to alleviate bottlenecks for the world's largest AI supercomputers. Read more.

Nvidia Unveils Next-Gen BlueField DPU

Nvidia's BlueField-3 DPU is capable of offloading 300 CPU cores worth of SDN, storage, security, and AI workloads. Read more.

Will VMware Set M&A Sights on 5G Open RAN?

“We’re a pretty acquisitive company and so we are always looking for partners as the overall architecture disintermediates,” VMware's Sanjay Uppal said. Read more.

Money Moves: March 2021

McAfee sold its enterprise business for $4 billion; VMware joined the cloud-native app security frenzy; and Orca scored a whale of a Series C. Read more.