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A new Terabit Bidirectional (BiDi) Multi-Source Agreement (MSA) group has been established to develop interoperable 800 Gb/s and 1.6 Tb/s optical interface specifications for parallel multimode fiber (MMF).The goal is...
Marvell introduced its Alaska A PAM4 DSP family for Active Electrical Cables (AECs) designed for data center interconnects by hyperscale customers.The new Alaska 400G/800G DSPs, fabricated in 6nm process, leverages...
Marvell is now sampling a 800Gbps or 8 x 100Gbps multimode platform for short-reach optical modules and Active Optical Cable (AOC) applications. The new 800G platform, which includes Marvell's PAM4 DSP...
Molex is ramping production of its commercially available 400G ZR QSFP-DD pluggable coherent optical transceivers.Molex’s 400G ZR is among the first standards-based, pluggable coherent optical modules to be commercially available...
Qualcomm unveiled its FastConnect 7800 chipset offering Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth connectivity and High Band Simultaneous Multi-link technology that leverages two Wi-Fi radios for four streams of high band connectivity in...
Qualcomm introduced its Snapdragon X65 and X62 5G M.2 Modules for laptops and desktop PCs. The modules were developed in collaboration with Foxconn Industrial Internet and Quectel. Based off the reference...
Intelsat has demonstrated a private cellular network with Microsoft Azure Private Multi-Access Edge Compute and FlexEnterprise, Intelsat’s satellite-based global connectivity service.The demonstration creates a private LTE service using Azure Private...
What's hot at #MWC22? In the drive toward O-RAN and v-RAN, silicon vendors are racing toward smaller geometries, and Marvell is on the leading edge with portfolio optimized for the...
NeoPhotonics has begun sampling its Open ZR+ QSFP-DD transceivers. The Open ZR+ version of NeoPhotonic's QSFP-DD uses the Marvell Deneb Coherent DSP (CDSP) to incorporate industry-standard Open Forward Error Correction (OFEC). NeoPhotonics...
OIF will host the following demonstrations at this year’s OFC 2022 in San Diego, March 8-10, 2022. Industry experts will also present updates on OIF’s current work in many critical...
Dell Technologies is introducing new telecommunications solutions and services to bolster the open telecom ecosystem and help communications service providers (CSPs) migrate to open, cloud-native networks. The announcement centers on...
SEMIFIVE, a start-up based in Korea, raised $109 million in Series B funding for its platform-based SoC design solution.SEMIFIVE’s platform SoC approach aims to significantly reduce chip development time and...
AMD completed its previously-announced acquisition of Xilinx in an all-stock transaction. Xilinx stockholders received 1.7234 shares of AMD common stock and cash in lieu of any fractional shares of AMD...
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