SmartNIC Offload for 5G User Plane Function
Optimizing the utilization of servers is important to carriers as they look to maximize the ROI for their network infrastructure. In this video, Charlie Ashton, Senior Director of Business Development...
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Ayar Labs lands $130m for In-Package Optical I/O
Ayar Labs, a start-up based in Santa Clara, California, secured $130 million in additional financing for its optical I/O solution. With the new investment, Ayar Labs said it is ramping production...
NTT demos first high-quality aluminum nitride transistor
NTT demonstrated an aluminum nitride (AlN) transistor featuring a large breakdown field. The innovation is seen as a promising semiconductor material for achieving low-loss, high-voltage power devices. NTT produced the...
Kyocera expands manufacturing in Sendai, Japan
Kyocera unveiled plans to build the largest manufacturing facility it has ever operated in Japan, expanding production capacity for components including organic semiconductor packages and crystal device packages. The new facility,...
MIT’s novel photolithography targets thin mirrors and silicon wafers
Researchers at MIT have developed a novel photolithography technique that could significantly improve the fabrication of thin mirrors and silicon wafers.The new approach to reshaping thin plate materials enables precise...
Marvell adds Sara Andrews to Board
Marvell announced the appointment of Sara Andrews, Chief Information Security Officer at Experian, to its board of directors.In addition, incumbent director Bethany Mayer, who joined the Marvell Board in 2018,...
Windstream Wholesale completes 400G ZR+ trials
Windstream Wholesale completed interoperability testing of QSFP-DD form factor ZR+ pluggable modules from II-VI and Acacia, now part of Cisco. The tests established 400 Gigabit links in a production environment over...
Renesas intros PCIe Gen6 clock buffers and multiplexers
Renesas Electronics introduced the first clock buffers and multiplexers that meet stringent PCIe Gen6 specifications. Renesasis offering 11 new clock buffers and 4 new multiplexers. The new devices, which also support...
Marvell has shipped more than 3 million 400G switch ports to date
Marvell has more than doubled its growth year-over-year (YOY) in cloud data center Ethernet switch port shipments, based on 650 Group's quarterly switch report for Q4'21 released last month. The company...
Interface Masters develops switch with Intel Tofino 2 + AMD EPYC 2
Interface Masters Technologies introduced a network switch based on the Intel Tofino 2 P4-programmable switch fabric (12.8Tb) and a Dual AMD EPYC 2 Milan 64-core offload processors.“Interface Masters is an...
POLYN unveils Neuromorphic Analog Signal Processor for “Tiny AI”
POLYN Technology, a start-up based in Caesarea, Israel unveiled its first Neuromorphic Analog Signal Processor (NASP) chip. The company says its device embodies the Tiny AI concept.The NASP chip enables full...
Intel commits to Net-Zero emissions in global operations by 2040
Intel pledged to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in its global operations by 2040, to increase the energy efficiency and lower the carbon footprint of Intel products and platforms with...
Intel acquires the Open Networking Foundation’s team
The Open Networking Foundation (ONF), which was established in 2011 with a mission of transforming networking by championing software-defined networking (SDN), disaggregation and open source, has released all of its...
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