Gordon Moore, 1929-2023
Gordon Moore passed away on Friday, March 24, 2023. He was 94. “Gordon Moore defined the technology industry through his insight and vision. He was instrumental in revealing the power...
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NVIDIA accelerates its generative AI platforms
NVIDIA launched four inference platforms optimized for generative AI applications: NVIDIA L4 for AI Video can deliver 120x more AI-powered video performance than CPUs, combined with 99% better energy efficiency. Serving...
Oracle Cloud deploys NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) has selected the NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPU as the latest addition to its networking stack, offering OCI customers a new option for offloading data center tasks from...
Stuart Pann appointed GM of Intel Foundry Services
Intel announced the appointment of Stuart Pann as senior vice president and general manager of Intel Foundry Services (IFS), reporting to Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger. He succeeds Dr. Randhir Thakur,...
MaxLinear intros 15A step-down switching regulator for Wi-Fi 7
MaxLinear introduced a 15 Amp Step-Down Switching regulator with 2-Bit VID designed and qualified to provide power to the digital core of MaxLinear’s Wi-Fi 7 SoCs. “With the release of...
Broadcom begins volume shipment of 51.2 T Tomahawk 5
Broadcom has begun volume shipments of its Tomahawk 5 family of Ethernet switch/router chips. Tomahawk 5 offers 51.2 Tbps of switching capacity, twice that of any other switch on the...
Forward Error Correction at 800G
What's hot at #OFC23? Forward Error Correction (FEC) becomes increasingly difficult as speed increases. So how does it work at 800G? AMD's Gilles Garcia provides a demo at this year's...
Broadcom intros 5nm integrated 800G PAM-4 PHY
At #OFC23, Broadcom announced sampling of its 5nm 100G/lane optical PAM-4 DSP PHY with integrated transimpedance amplifier (TIA) and laser driver. The new BCM85812, which is optimized for 800G DR8,...
Marvell samples Nova 1.6 Tbps PAM4 electro-optics platform
Marvell announced sampling of its Marvell Nova 1.6 Tbps PAM4 electro-optics platform. Marvell's Nova is powered by a 200 Gbps/lambda optical DSP capable of enabling 1.6 Tbps pluggable modules in...
Marvell previews 51.2 Tbps Teralynx switch
Marvell Technology announced its Teralynx 10 Ultra-Low Latency Programmable 51.2 Tbps switch chip. It can be paired with the newly-annouced Nova PAM4 1.6 Tbps electro-optics platform for handling high-bandwidth workloads...
Nokia’s PSE-6s photonic service engine carries 1.2 Tbps wavelength for 118km
Nokia announced two performance metrics for its recently-announced sixth generation super-coherent Photonic Service Engine, PSE-6s: 1.2 Tb/s over metro distances (118km) and 800 Gb/s over long haul distances (2,019 km),...
Nokia intros 6th gen super-coherent photonic service engine
Nokia introduced its sixth-generation super-coherent photonic service engine, enabling efficient delivery of 400G to 800 Gigabit Ethernet over distances of 2,000km and beyond. Nokia's PSE-6s, which integrates the latest generation...
SiTime samples 32 kHz MEMS Super-TCXO for defense
SiTime introduced its new SiT7910 32 kHz MEMS Super-TCXO as part of its Endura family for aerospace-defense applications that use Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) signals, such as ruggedized handheld radios,...
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