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News - The Compute, Storage & Networking Channel, Ben Wodecki, SDxCentral
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
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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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HPE caps stellar Q3 with Oracle ‘gigawatt scale’ networking deal
Hyperscaler and long-time Juniper user keeps faith, but backlog headaches linger on
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Optics startup Quintessent secures $40m to revolutionize interconnects for AI
Ciena among backers of DWDM link player using gallium arsenide over supply-chain-constrained indium phosphide
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Nvidia’s ultra-low-latency AI inference LPX racks hit full production
Neocloud Nebius among early adopters of platform promising 4x faster responsiveness for AI agents
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Could a tiny ‘rainbow’ chip be the key to faster 6G communications?
Scientists develop rice-sized chip for next-gen millimeter-wave connectivity
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Arista smashes revenue records with $3bn+; CEO bullish on supply chain overhaul
Multi-year purchase commitments triple as Arista tightens supply to push further into non-Nvidia accelerator networking
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Nvidia debuts Spectrum-6 switches to power next-gen AI networking
Microsoft and SpaceXAI join neoclouds among early users
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Microsoft taps 3M’s expanded beam tech to streamline AI infrastructure connectivity
Partnership to reduce data center deployment times… and dust
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Meta rebuilds its AI storage stack from the ground up to stop GPUs sitting idle
An inside look at how the wannabe cloud provider cuts data wait times by up to 97 percent
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DriveNets unveils high-capacity AI fabric platforms to connect thousands of XPUs
Broadcom silicon powers 1.6T offering aiming to reduce network latency for AI workloads
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Marvell boosts custom silicon push with AMD engineering lead hire
Engineering lead behind AMD EPYC efforts joins custom XPU team
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Nvidia backs AI networking switch silicon startup Upscale in $190m raise
Upscale founding reaches $2 billion following Series A-1 extension
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Nokia to scale optics manufacturing in with $30m expansion in Pennsylvania
Workforce in Allentown set to double as optics continues to be key growth driver
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Lambda offers glimpse into Nvidia’s CPO switch, enabling 'more tokens' through substantial power savings
Microsoft-backed neocloud showcases liquid-cooled Quantum-X Q3450-LD, highlighting efficiency benefits and a lack of need for traditional transceivers
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Stop shrinking, start speeding: Huawei says it has found a way past Moore's Law
Huawei’s τ Scaling Law argues the future of chips lies in time, not transistor size
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Cisco plans to bring SONiC foundation to customers beyond just hyperscalers
Blog post inadvertently reveals SONiC support for data center switches will extend to enterprises, neoclouds
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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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Everpure, formerly Pure Storage, now 70% more expensive amid memory crunch
CEO defends delicate pricing moment for Everpure and promises it's not profiteering
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Cisco alum joins Finchetto to drive optical switching for AI
Former Cisco VP and Saisei Networks founder backs British startup’s bid to shake up the switch market
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IBM, Arm team up to build ‘dual-architecture’ hardware for AI and data-intensive workloads
Pair have come a long way since their salad days of co-creating IoT starter kits
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Google's 105-qubit Willow quantum processor opens for early access
Researchers invited to use not-yet-public chip that’s five times more reliable than its predecessor
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Ericsson taps Europe's fastest supercomputer to fuel AI development for 6G
Jupiter to train large-scale AI models for Ericsson’s next-gen RAN offerings
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Corning unveils suite of next-gen optical tech to connect AI data centers
Multicore fiber and CPO offerings on display at OFC 2026
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Nvidia, Broadcom form group to standardize optical interconnects for next-gen AI clusters
OCI-MSA looks to drive open 'plug-and-play ecosystem’ in the notoriously fierce optics market
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Nvidia pumps $2bn into optical developer Lumentum
Agreement bolsters R&D and manufacturing efforts while securing Nvidia's future access rights to critical laser components
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Taara launches photonics chip to break bottlenecks with light-based connectivity
CEO details how the innovation, which shrinks free space optics into a fingernail-sized piece of hardware, could extend to data centers and space
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Next-gen switches & servers: Everything unveiled at Cisco Live EMEA 2026
Showcase in Amsterdam debuts 100Tbps network silicon, ultra-high bandwidth pluggable optics, and a unified control plane