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Taiwan Trade Deal Featuring More TSMC Chip Plants in the US is a Big Deal
New FABs Were Needed to Keep Pace with the AI Boom TSMC’s Arizona expansion is gaining momentum, with recent reports indicating a significant ramp-up tied to evolving U.S.-Taiwan trade discussions. The chip giant has already brought its first fab online in late 2024, with a second facility accelerated for 3nm… Read More »Blog
Video Interview: Marvell’s Sandeep Bharathi Speaks with 650 Group
Alan Weckel had a great conversation with Sandeep Bharathi, President of the Data Center Group at Marvell, during their Industry Analyst Day. Sandeep provides an in-depth perspective on what Marvell has been up to in custom silicon, along with the momentum they see on XPU attach to alleviate bottlenecks in… Read More »Blog
Marvell’s CPO Story Unfolds at its Industry Analyst Meeting
We attended the Marvell Industry Analyst Day in Santa Clara, California today. The company focused almost exclusively on the Data Center market opportunities the company is pursuing. Numerous spokespersons said that it thinks it has enough manufacturing capacity to hit its 2026 plans and it is working with customers and its suppliers… Read More »Blog
Extreme Networks Holds Upbeat Investor and Analyst Day
We attended Extreme Networks’ Investor and Analyst Day at NASDAQ’s New York City facilities earlier this week. The company was decidedly upbeat and emphasized that it has an opportunity to pursue customers currently served by its competitors. The company reiterated that its Extreme Platform ONE (its cloud and AI management… Read More »Blog
NVIDIA Invests $1B In Nokia to Influence AI-RAN
This week at NVIDIA’s GTC show in Washington, D.C., NVIDIA and Nokia announced that NVIDIA will invest $1 billion in Nokia to jointly pursue the goal of developing AI-RAN systems in the future. Based on the companies’ formal announcement and a call hosted by Nokia earlier this week, we understand that Nokia… Read More »Blog
Fortinet Analyst Meeting – Celebrating 25 Years
We attended an analyst meeting held in Fortinet’s headquarters and Executive Briefing Center (EBC) this week. Over ten different executives presented to the small audience about product, marketing and go-to-market activities at the cybersecurity leader. We left with the sense that SASE is the company’s key growth engine and that… Read More »Blog