Tag: broadcom

November 29, 2023

According to IDC Research, 3.8 billion Wi-Fi devices are forecast to ship in 2023 alone, and of those, 473 million are expected to be Wi-Fi 6E devices. The firm further expects more than 18% of all Wi-Fi 6 device shipments […]

August 3, 2021

Semiconductor company Marvell sought to strengthen its cloud portfolio, striking a $1.1 billion deal to acquire cloud and edge networking solutions company Innovium. Speaking on The Six Five podcast with Moor Insights and Strategy founder Patrick Moorhead, Marvell COO Chris […]

June 15, 2020

Broadcom has been added to Nokia’s list of 5G chip suppliers, joining Intel and Marvell, both of which made similar deals with the equipment vendor in March. All three chip suppliers will help Nokia expand its ReefShark-branded silicon, used in […]

November 18, 2019

Cumulus Networks announced on Monday that it has released Cumulus Linux 4.0, which is its network operating system (OS), and version 2.4 of its NetQ network operations toolset. Cumulus Networks’ Partho Mishra, president and chief product officer, said Cumulus Linux […]

September 27, 2019

AT&T is driving the white box football down the field again, announcing Friday that it has put its specifications for a distributed disaggregated chassis (DDC) white box architecture into the Open Compute Project (OCP.) The carrier’s DDC design, which was […]

July 23, 2019

President Donald Trump has agreed to grant “timely” licensing decisions to U.S. technology firms that want to sell components and services to Chinese vendor Huawei, the White House said in a statement. The decision was adopted following a meeting between […]

July 26, 2018

Since announcing the proposed $44 billion acquisition of Dutch semiconductor firm NXP in October, 2016, Qualcomm has worked to gain worldwide regulatory approval for the deal, and extended the tender period numerous times. Now the San Diego, Calif.-based seminconductor giant […]

June 21, 2018

OpenSwitch (OPX) announced the availability of a new software release today and welcomed new project members to its ecosystem. OpenSwitch, which is a project under the Linux Foundation’s umbrella, was designed as a switching software platform based on the OPX […]

April 10, 2018

With the direct intervention of President Trump, Qualcomm withstood a hostile takeover attempt waged by rival Broadcom, but the San Diego, Calif.-based chipmaker is still very much at a transition point–Looking to diversify its vertical focus, Qualcomm is pushing reluctant […]

February 6, 2018

According to reports over the weekend, Broadcom is raising the stakes in its efforts to acquire Qualcomm. They plan to take the wraps off of a new offer worth some $80-82, valuing the proposed deal at $120B. The saga began […]