Broadcom began shipping its answer to Nvidia's upcoming Quantum-X and Spectrum-X switches on Tuesday: the Tomahawk 6. The chip doubles the bandwidth of its predecessor and comes in both standard and ...

While it has always been true that flatter networks and faster networks are possible with every speed bump on the Ethernet roadmap, the scale of networks has kept growing fast enough that the switch ...

Cavium and Pica8 are combining an ASIC with a network operating system (NOS) to support software defined networking (SDN). Cavium will put Pica8’s OpenFlow-based PicOS NOS on Cavium’s XPliant switch ...

Barefoot Networks released the second generation of its P4-programmable Tofino Ethernet switch ASIC family, called Tofino 2. The new switch uses 7 nanometer (nm) technology to process packets at 12.8 ...

The proliferation of artificial intelligence workloads is creating concern about the ability of data center networks to keep up with demand. One part of the solution is co-packaged optics (CPO), which ...

The best minds in networking spent the better part of two decades wrenching the control planes of switches and routers out of network devices and putting them into external controllers. We called this ...

Taalas and Etched are two AI chip startups aiming to challenge Nvidia’s dominance in the AI hardware market. Etched is using ASIC chips. Taalas is using eASIC chips. They are both putting the logic ...

MediaTek is already engaged in developing AI ASIC chips and anticipates revenue from this segment to materialize in 2026, according to company CEO Rick Tsai. Save my User ID and Password Some ...

The FM4000 series 10-Gigabit Ethernet switch chips feature high-performance routing and enable data center networks to scale into the thousands of nodes. They are complete layer 2/3/4 IP ...

Application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) chips form the backbone of the bitcoin BTC $89,779.07 mining industry. ASIC machines are made for a single purpose: To solve Bitcoin’s SHA-256 algorithm ...