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Quantum firm Atom Computing secures $100m Series C funding
Third Point Ventures, DCVC, and Cisco Investments put money into Atom's atomic array-based tech
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AMD debuts MI350 PCIe card to accelerate enterprise AI workloads
Chip giant extends accelerator peripheral lineup as it looks to meet bandwidth-booming workload demands
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Akamai deploys Nvidia "AI Grid" across 4,400 Edge locations, claims to be first
Spectrum, Comcast, AT&T, and Crown Castle follow suit
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Cisco signs 15-year vPPA with R.Power in Poland
Will supply Cisco with 486MWh of power over the contracted agreement
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IBM partners with Cisco for development of distributed quantum network
Proof-of-concept expected to be delivered by 2030
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AI chip company Groq raises $750m at $6.9bn valuation
Round was led by investment firm Disruptive
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Digital Alpha invests $300m in GPUaaS Massed Compute
Will be used to expand Massed Compute's AI cloud infrastructure footprint
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Cisco’s Qunnect investment fuels its quantum focus
Quantum networking toward a quantum Internet
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Cisco unveils prototype quantum network entanglement chip
Company has also opened quantum lab in Santa Monica, California
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Cisco signs 100MW PPA with X-Elio in Texas
Company to offtake from two solar farms due live in 2027
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HPE hits back at DOJ move to block Juniper deal, says Huawei could benefit
The company also warns that Cisco will benefit
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Groq closes $640m funding round; hires Meta and former HP and Intel execs
Latest round values company at $2.8bn
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Cisco to lay off over 4,000 employees
Redundancies are a result of the company’s restructuring plan
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Nvidia and Cisco partner on AI solutions for data centers
Infrastructure, networking, and software packages available later this year
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Cisco to cut 350 jobs in Silicon Valley next month
The latest layoffs will impact employees in San Jose and Milpitas
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Cisco to snap up cloud-based core network platform dev Working Group Two for $150m
The acquisition will beef up Cisco's mobility services offering
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Cisco acquires assurance firm Accedian
Expects the move to complete during the first quarter of FY24
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Florida man pleads guilty to selling more than $100m of counterfeit Cisco gear
Onur Aksoy founded 19 companies to sell faulty or poor-quality networking devices
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Florida man charged with selling $1bn worth of fake Cisco networking equipment
Faulty equipment was used by governments and hospitals
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Cisco and Acacia announce new $4.5bn acquisition agreement
Cisco’s protracted purchase of optical firm Acacia has been settled after delays and legal challenges
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Cisco to acquire Internet monitoring company ThousandEyes
The deal is estimated to be around $1bn
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Cisco blocked in China as trade war heats up
"We're being uninvited to bid" says CEO
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Cisco to acquire hyperconvergence start-up Springpath for $320m
As it attempts to reinvent itself as a software company
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Oracle co-CEO Safra Catz joins Trump transition team
Musk, Kalanick join advisory board
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Larry Page, Brian Krzanich, Satya Nadella and more to meet Trump at tech summit
DCD still awaiting invite