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Trump's Final Act Cuts Off Huawei From US ChipmakersIn the final days of Trump’s presidency, his administration moved to tighten restrictions on Chinese technology companies and their suppliers. Read more.
Europe's Telecom Giants Vow Open RAN SupportThe quartet of operators, which includes Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica, and Vodafone, did not commit to any new timelines for broad open RAN deployments. Read more.
Red Hat Seeks to Soothe CentOS Linux UsersThe CentOS Stream platform will include “no- and low-cost” programs that will allow individual Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscriptions to run on up to 16 systems in a production environment. Read more.
Enea, Nexcom Launch Open Source SD-WAN KitNexcom will supply the hardware, Enea will handle NFV orchestration, while SD-WAN and security will be supplied by flexiWAN and pfSense. Read more.
Cybersecurity Spend to Surge 10% in 2021, Canalys SaysThe forecast comes on the heels of a record $54.1 billion spent on the cybersecurity space in 2020, which unfortunately also witnessed some of the largest security breaches to date. Read more.
Nvidia Views Kubernetes as Key to GPU Accelerated AI ScaleThanks to Kubernetes, most people are going to be able to think of GPU acceleration as a fast or efficient button, said Nvidia's Chris Lamb. Read more.
SAP Poaches Microsoft Cloud ExecThe addition of long-time Microsoft cloud executive Julia White could back SAP’s attempt to bolster its cloud business. Read more.
5G Hits 75% of US PopulationDuring the next six months, PwC expects 5G coverage to reach 80% of the U.S. population and 12% of wireless customers to own 5G-compatible devices. Read more.
Amazon, Microsoft, Google Dominate European Cloud MarketThe European cloud market has more than tripled over the past three years, though European service providers have seen their market share plunge from 26% in 2017, to less than 16% at the end of the third quarter of 2020. Read more.
TSMC Boosts Production as Intel Looks for Fab PartnersThe Taiwan-based chip fabricator plans to invest an additional $11 billion in capital to boost production. Read more.
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