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Intel enters the PC gaming GPU battle with Arc

The Verge

This new Arc brand will cover both the hardware and software powering Intel’s high-end discrete GPUs, as well as multiple hardware generations. So far, Intel has launched its first Iris Xe graphics cards , codenamed “DG1,” that use the company’s Xe LP architecture. Intel Arc is the new branding for Intel’s GPUs.

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VMware Cisco EMC VCE Zen and now server storage I/O convergence

Storage IO Blog

For those not familiar or who need a recap, VCE was created to create converged server, storage I/O networking hardware and software solutions combing technologies from its investors resulting in solutions called vBlocks.

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Apple wins early support from its ‘friends at Microsoft’ in transition to new Mac processors

GeekWire

Apple confirmed plans to shift its Mac lineup to its own processors , moving its notebook and desktop computers away from Intel chips after 15 years, and said Microsoft and Adobe are already updating their software for the new architecture. Three Windows PC vendors — Lenovo, HP and Dell — currently dominate the market.

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Is Cisco fighting a losing battle over SDN?

Virtualized Greek

This is different from the current software first movement in that Cisco’s approach is based on their hardware first view of the network. However, if you were to go by the response to the number of vendors supporting the NSX ecosystem you’d think the entire industry is going against this hardware first religion. HP – Top of Rack.

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Can you trust your computer?

Dataconomy

Trusted computing stands as a pivotal milestone in the ever-evolving landscape of digital security, strategically weaving hardware and software mechanisms into the very fabric of computing systems. Notably, major tech players including Intel, AMD, HP, Dell, Microsoft, and even the U.S.

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IDF 2014 Day 1 Recap

Scott Lowe

The first one, on virtualizing the network, did highlight an important development regarding hardware offloads for Geneve, the next-generation network overlay encapsulation protocol. Intel announced yesterday that the new XL710 network adapters (which are 40Gbps adapters) will support Geneve hardware offloads. Coffee Chats.

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Technology Short Take #41

Scott Lowe

Rob Sherwood, CTO of Big Switch, recently published a reasonably in-depth look at “modern OpenFlow” implementations and how they can leverage multiple tables in hardware. It sounds like Ivan favors scale-out architectures, not scale-up architectures (which are typically what is seen in centralized control plane deployments).

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