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 »Taiwan Trade Deal Featuring More TSMC Chip Plants in the US is a Big Deal
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 »Video Interview: Marvell’s Sandeep Bharathi Speaks with 650 Group
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 »Marvell’s CPO Story Unfolds at its Industry Analyst Meeting
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 »Extreme Networks Holds Upbeat Investor and Analyst Day
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 »NVIDIA Invests $1B In Nokia to Influence AI-RAN
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 »Fortinet Analyst Meeting – Celebrating 25 Years
Introduction In today’s resource-scarce world, network reliability and efficiency are essential to helping IT teams scale, as finding skilled IT staff is increasingly complex. Without a move to AI for operations, the number of devices and applications will overwhelm existing staff and increase an organization’s exposure to security vulnerabilities and… Read More »Design Smarter Networks: AI for Networking is Shaping the Future of Network Operations
Introduction Service Providers (SP) and Colocation (Colo) Providers play a pivotal role in enabling and scaling the AI economy. AI workloads, whether training, inference, agentic, consumer, or enterprise, have fundamentally different compute, storage, networking, and power requirements than traditional applications. Organizations must process massive volumes of sensitive, mission-critical data, redefining… Read More »Capturing the AI Wave: New Revenue Models for Service Providers and Colocation Operators
Introduction AI Ethernet Switching provides the backbone for connecting GPUs. We discussed the different types of AI fabrics and the advantages Ethernet had in our previous blog. The fabrics are key to how Neoclouds and Sovereign Clouds build next-generation AI clusters. Idle GPUs and congestion costs are significant. This blog… Read More »AI Fabrics for Neo and Sovereign Clouds: Why Non-Blocking Design Matters
How Ethernet, AI Infrastructure, and ecosystem partnerships are driving a $70B+ market shift Introduction Networking plays a key role in AI buildouts. From a user’s perspective, we might see this as a faster response time or better results, but behind the scenes, the network plays the vital role of connecting… Read More »Cisco and the Future of AI Networking
