by Chris DePuy, 650 Group / October 15, 2026 This morning, Verizon and Ericsson announced the first pre-standard 6G field call in the 7 GHz band, completed at a Verizon commercial network site in Concord, California. The confirmed result is an outdoor call on a 400 MHz carrier using a… Read More »Ericsson’s 6G Field Call: Standardization’s Hardware Reality Check
by Chris DePuy, 650 Group / October 14, 2026 This morning, Marvell announced the second-generation Structera X 3406 and 3506 CXL 3.2 memory expanders — the industry’s first six-channel CXL memory expanders aimed at AI inference — as the OCP Global Summit gets under way in San Jose. The company… Read More »Marvell Doubles Down on the AI Memory Wall and the Wires Around It
IntroductionAI factories’ growth continues at a pace of expansion that is pushing technology and the supply chain to its limits. Hyperscalers, neoclouds, and sovereign programs are committing hundreds of billions of dollars to GPUs and XPUs. Equipment spend is already moving through a trillion-dollar wave this decade. AI networking itself… Read More »AI Buildouts Have a Networking Manufacturing Problem
Why Networking Scale Matters for AI’s Next Phase Introduction:The AI infrastructure boom shows no signs of slowing. Hyperscalers, neoclouds, sovereign clouds, and enterprises are pouring hundreds of billions into GPU and XPU clusters to fuel ever-larger models. Amazon’s CAPEX guide was $200B for 2026, and a slew of fresh capital… Read More »The Widening Chasm: XPU Data Hunger Outpaces Network Infrastructure
