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Avago-Broadcom Deal Creates Comms Chip Leader
The inexorable shift of chip making to Asia continued this week with the announcement that Singapore-based semiconductor manufacturer Avago Technologies Ltd. will acquire U.S. mainstay Broadcom Corp. in a ...Full Article
Broadcom Fights Off Ethernet Rivals With Tomahawk Chips
Chip maker Broadcom is the dominant supplier of chips for Ethernet switches with its Trident and Dune family of ASICs. But it faces increasing competition from established players like ...Full Article
XPliant Takes On Broadcom, Intel With Malleable Ethernet Switch Chips
Switch chip upstart XPliant, founded in 2011 by a bunch of techies from Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks, Brocade Communications, and Marvell and in the process of being acquired by ...Full Article
IEEE Gets Behind 25G Ethernet Effort
After several days of presentations and a unanimous vote of 61 to zero in favor, the members of the IEEE have decided to back an effort to develop 25 ...Full Article
Cloud Builders Push 25G Ethernet Standard
Unhappy with the cost per gigabit of bandwidth with current Ethernet switches and adapters, two of the cloud computing giants – Google and Microsoft – have teamed up with ...Full Article
Facebook Unveils Homegrown Ethernet Switch
Social media giant Facebook is one step closer to ousting Cisco Systems as its primary datacenter switching supplier with the launch of a new top-of-rack engineering project inside of ...Full Article
