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Chris DePuy

Technology Analyst and co-founder of 650 Group

Flex Acquires EPC Power: A $4.4B Bet on 800V AI Data Center Power

Flex (NASDAQ: FLEX) said this week it has reached a definitive agreement to buy EPC Power for $4.4 billion, folding in differentiated power-conversion and grid-forming technology built for the next generation of 800V data center power architectures. Flex expects the deal to close in the fourth quarter of calendar 2026,… Read More »Flex Acquires EPC Power: A $4.4B Bet on 800V AI Data Center Power

Arm’s Mali G2-Ultra NX: Neural Accelerators Take Mobile Graphics AI-Native

This morning, Arm positioned the new Mali G2-Ultra NX GPU as its first AI-native Mali graphics core, integrating dedicated neural accelerators directly into the shader pipeline rather than bolting an NPU alongside it. It arrives with a third-generation ray tracing unit and a new execution engine Arm calls the largest… Read More »Arm’s Mali G2-Ultra NX: Neural Accelerators Take Mobile Graphics AI-Native

Nokia Opens Its Mobile Core Early Access Program to the Whole Industry

Nokia today announced Mobile Core Early Access, a live, hosted environment that lets telecommunications providers and enterprises evaluate the software behind AI-era mobile core networks before committing to deployment. The program launched in June with a select group of 30 companies; with today’s announcement, registration is now open to the… Read More »Nokia Opens Its Mobile Core Early Access Program to the Whole Industry

Celona Launches Orion, an Agentic Converged Wireless Platform

Celona today announced Orion, a new enterprise platform that unifies private 5G, Wi-Fi, public cellular, and satellite into a single wireless fabric designed for AI-native operations. Celona is positioning Orion as its Agentic Converged Wireless Platform, creating a new category that brings together previously separate wireless domains under a unified… Read More »Celona Launches Orion, an Agentic Converged Wireless Platform

Cribl Enters SIEM Security Market

This week, Cribl announced it is acquiring CardinalOps, an agentic detection-engineering company, in a move that extends the firm beyond pipeline and routing into security operations. In the press release, Cribl positions itself as the AI Platform for Telemetry and frames the deal as adding detection capabilities that help customers… Read More »Cribl Enters SIEM Security Market

Arrcus and UfiSpace Announce Ethernet System for AMD Instinct

This week at AMD Advancing AI Day in San Francisco (July 22–23, 2026), Arrcus and UfiSpace announced an integrated networking solution for AMD-powered AI infrastructure, shown alongside GIGABYTE’s GIGAPOD rack from Giga Computing built on AMD EPYC and AMD Instinct platforms. Arrcus is a leading networking software company; its ArcOS… Read More »Arrcus and UfiSpace Announce Ethernet System for AMD Instinct