Network interface controller

Semtech to Showcase New Linear Pluggable Optical Links for AI and ML Data Center Interconnects at OFC 2024

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Tuesday, March 26, 2024
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This press release features multimedia.

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  • This press release features multimedia.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240326427103/en/
    Semtech FiberEdge DirectEdge 100G LPO (Graphic: Business Wire)
    At the Optical Fiber Communication (OFC) 2024 exhibition in San Diego, California, from Mar.
  • Data centers are expected to utilize this power savings to deploy increased compute capability.
  • LPO solutions also offer reduced latency and lower costs than DSP based solutions delivering additional value propositions for data centers.”

Annual Server-Class Ethernet NIC Revenue Reached $6 Billion in 2023, Reports Crehan Research

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Monday, March 11, 2024
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SAN FRANCISCO, March 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- During calendar-year 2023, data center customers invested significantly in server and storage networking, which drove total annual server-class Ethernet NIC market revenues to $6 billion, according to a recent report from Crehan Research. Spending on accelerated networking was particularly strong, resulting in SmartNIC revenue – including DPUs and IPUs – surpassing foundational/performance NIC revenue during the year and now comprising more than half of the total revenue (see accompanying chart).

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  • SAN FRANCISCO, March 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- During calendar-year 2023, data center customers invested significantly in server and storage networking, which drove total annual server-class Ethernet NIC market revenues to $6 billion, according to a recent report from Crehan Research .
  • Spending on accelerated networking was particularly strong, resulting in SmartNIC revenue – including DPUs and IPUs – surpassing foundational/performance NIC revenue during the year and now comprising more than half of the total revenue (see accompanying chart).
  • "Although foundational/performance NICs still account for most of the server-class Ethernet NIC shipments, broader adoption of SmartNICs coupled with their higher average selling price pushed these products to account for a majority of the total server-class Ethernet NIC market revenue," said Seamus Crehan, president of Crehan Research.
  • Crehan also reported that the SmartNIC revenue increase was much stronger for merchant-built SmartNICs, as opposed to the self-built proprietary SmartNICs that were the early driver of growth in this market.

Ascent Solar Technologies Adds Former SpaceX Founder Philippe Kassouf as Strategic Advisor

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Wednesday, February 7, 2024
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THORNTON, Colo., Feb. 07, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ascent Solar Technologies (“Ascent Solar” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: ASTI), a U.S. innovator in the design and manufacturing of featherweight, flexible thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solutions, today announced the appointment of former founding member of SpaceX Philippe Kassouf to the Company’s Strategic Advisory Board in the role of Strategic Advisor.

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  • THORNTON, Colo., Feb. 07, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ascent Solar Technologies (“Ascent Solar” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: ASTI), a U.S. innovator in the design and manufacturing of featherweight, flexible thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solutions, today announced the appointment of former founding member of SpaceX Philippe Kassouf to the Company’s Strategic Advisory Board in the role of Strategic Advisor.
  • In addition to his advisory role at Ascent, Kassouf currently serves as the Founder and CEO of QED Engineering Inc. , a startup aimed at new product development for the space and military aerospace markets.
  • Kassouf joins Ascent’s Strategic Advisory board on the heels of its founding and addition of its inaugural member , Major General Casey Blake, in January.
  • “Philippe has a very prominent background in space and aerospace technology, and as a founding member of SpaceX, possesses deep industry relationships and experience in scaling commercial space technologies,” said Paul Warley, CEO of Ascent Solar Technologies.

Merchant-Built Ethernet SmartNIC Revenues - including DPUs and IPUs -Tripled in the First Half of 2023, Reports Crehan Research

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Monday, October 16, 2023
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SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Revenues for the merchant-built Ethernet smartNIC market, which includes Data Processing Units (DPUs) and Infrastructure Process Units (IPUs), more than tripled year-over-year in the first half of calendar-year 2023, according to a recent report from Crehan Research Inc. This is the second consecutive half-year period in which revenues have more than tripled, resulting in merchant-built Ethernet SmartNICs now comprising over 20% of total merchant-built server-class Ethernet NIC market revenue (see accompanying chart).

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  • This is the second consecutive half-year period in which revenues have more than tripled, resulting in merchant-built Ethernet SmartNICs now comprising over 20% of total merchant-built server-class Ethernet NIC market revenue (see accompanying chart).
  • "Up until recently, the SmartNIC market ramp was driven by a couple of the largest hyper-scale cloud service providers building their own proprietary SmartNICs for in-house deployments," said Seamus Crehan, president of Crehan Research.
  • "But now, with the ramp of merchant-built SmartNICs, we are moving toward broader market and customer adoption of these products."
  • Intel's strong IPU growth helped propel its total server-class Ethernet NIC revenue market share (Foundational/Performance NICs and SmartNICs) to the top position for merchant-built server-class Ethernet NICs.

KIOXIA Introduces Next Generation e-MMC Ver. 5.1-Compliant Embedded Flash Memory Products

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Wednesday, September 27, 2023
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5.1-compliant embedded flash memory products for consumer applications.

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  • 5.1-compliant embedded flash memory products for consumer applications.
  • The new products integrate a newer version of the company’s BiCS FLASH™ 3D flash memoryand a controller in a single package, reducing processor workload and improving ease of use.
  • The new KIOXIA e-MMC devices improve sequential and random write performance by 2.5x and random read performance by 2.7x over previous generation devices5*.
  • “e-MMC remains a popular embedded memory solution for a wide range of applications,” said Maitry Dholakia, vice president, Memory Business Unit, for KIOXIA America, Inc. “KIOXIA remains steadfast in its commitment to delivering the latest in flash technology for these applications.

Industry First PCI Express® 6.0 Protocol Analyzer Enables Development of Next Generation High Performance PCIe Devices

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Thursday, June 8, 2023
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MILPITAS, Calif., June 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Teledyne LeCroy, the worldwide leader in protocol test solutions, today announced availability of the Summit M616 PCI Express (PCIe®) Protocol Analyzer/Exerciser for testing designs and products incorporating PCIe 6.0 traffic. The Summit M616 Exerciser functionality addresses the needs of PCIe developers by providing high performance 64 GT/s traffic generation on devices with link widths up to 16 lanes. The analyzer functionality supports the same line rates and lane widths, and features Teledyne LeCroy's industry standard CATC Trace™. The Summit M616 traffic generation capability can also be used to develop standardized compliance test suites. Teledyne LeCroy will demonstrate its PCIe 6.0 Protocol Analyzer at the PCI-SIG DevCon on June 13-14, 2023. The demonstration will capture and display 64 GT/s protocol traffic between the Synopsys Host and Device IP for PCIe 6.0 using the Synopsys HAPS® prototyping system.

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  • The Summit M616 Exerciser functionality addresses the needs of PCIe developers by providing high performance 64 GT/s traffic generation on devices with link widths up to 16 lanes.
  • Teledyne LeCroy will demonstrate its PCIe 6.0 Protocol Analyzer at the PCI-SIG DevCon on June 13-14, 2023.
  • The combination of protocol exerciser and protocol analyzer provides engineers with a powerful platform to develop and troubleshoot the next generation of high performance PCIe Devices.
  • For more information on The Summit M616 PCIe 6.0 Protocol Exerciser/Analyzer and PCIe Gen6 Interposers please contact Teledyne LeCroy at +1 (800) 909-7211 or visit our PCI Express landing page.

First PCI Express® 6.0 Interposer for OCP NIC 3.0 Devices

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Tuesday, May 16, 2023
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MILPITAS, Calif. , May 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Teledyne LeCroy, the worldwide leader in protocol test solutions, announced availability of a PCI Express 6.0 Enterprise and Data Center Standard Form Factor (EDSFF) Open Compute Project (OCP) interposer module and Network Interface Card (NIC) 3.0 adapter kit, to be used with Teledyne LeCroy's PCIe protocol analyzers. 

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  • The specification utilizes the SFF-TA-1002 connector and enables any OCP NIC 3.0 card from any vendor to work in any OCP NIC 3.0 server.
  • Using the PCIe 6.0 EDSFF-OCP interposer and NIC 3.0 adapter kit in combination with a Teledyne LeCroy PCIe protocol analyzer, design and test engineers can test products that incorporate OCP NIC 3.0 with PCIe, NVM Express® (NVMe), or Compute Express Link™ (CXL) technologies, ensuring interoperability and performance.
  • The PCIe 6.0 OCP NIC 3.0 interposer consists of an interposer module and an OCP NIC 3.0 adapter kit.
  • The PCIe 6.0 OCP NIC 3.0 interposer can be ordered now:
    For more information on the PCIe 6.0 EDSFF-OCP interposer or NIC 3.0 adapter kit please contact Teledyne LeCroy at +1 (800) 909-7211 or visit our Interposers and Probes landing page.

Luxshare-Tech is showcasing Silicon Photonics eDR4 Transceiver, low-power straight and breakout AOCs on 400GbE aggregation switch at DesignCon 2023

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Friday, January 27, 2023
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 27, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Innovations in the high-speed communication are on full display as DesignCon 2023 kicks off in Santa Clara, California this week.

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  • SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 27, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Innovations in the high-speed communication are on full display as DesignCon 2023 kicks off in Santa Clara, California this week.
  • Luxshare-Tech (booth #839) announced today a successful live demonstration of silicon photonics QSFPDD eDR4 optical transceiver and low-power QSFPDD-to-QSFPDD straight AOC, QSFPDD-to-2xQSFP56 breakout AOC, QSFPDD-to-4xQSFP28 breakout AOC driven by a major North American equipment vendor’s 400GbE aggregation switch platform.
  • New highly scalable low-power optical interconnects like QSFPDD-to-2xQSFP56 breakout AOC enables seamless interoperability between 400GbE PAM4 switch and 200GbE PAM4 switch or server Network Interface Card.
  • Luxshare-Tech is pleased to exhibit 400GbE optics in silicon photonics technology and this is a prelude on emerging 800GbE optics featuring highly integrated silicon photonics optical engine with dense low-power electronics coming to OFC 2023.

UNICOM Engineering Releases Latest 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processor-Based Servers

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Tuesday, January 10, 2023
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Our latest platforms will help early adopters gain a competitive edge by leveraging the architecture's unmatched performance, memory, storage, and networking options."

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  • Our latest platforms will help early adopters gain a competitive edge by leveraging the architecture's unmatched performance, memory, storage, and networking options."
  • Featuring 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors, the newest UNICOM Engineering scalable server systems fill a void in the marketplace, delivering the best combination of performance and reliability for high density applications.
  • UNICOM Engineering provides comprehensive validation and optimization services to ensure a smooth transition to this and future Intel Xeon processor upgrades.
  • For evaluation unit availability and platform specifications, please get in touch with UNICOM Engineering Sales .

Analog Devices Announces World’s First Long-Reach, Single-pair Power over Ethernet (SPoE) Solutions for Smart Building and Factory Automation

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Wednesday, November 16, 2022
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Analog Devices, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADI) today announced the worlds first Single-pair Power over Ethernet (SPoE) Power Sourcing Equipment (PSE) and Power Device (PD) solutions to help customers drive greater levels of intelligence into smart buildings, factory automation, and other applications at the edge of traditional networks.

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  • Analog Devices, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADI) today announced the worlds first Single-pair Power over Ethernet (SPoE) Power Sourcing Equipment (PSE) and Power Device (PD) solutions to help customers drive greater levels of intelligence into smart buildings, factory automation, and other applications at the edge of traditional networks.
  • The new offerings facilitate powered, last-mile connectivity for factory and building automation through real-time power management, telemetry, extremely low standby power consumption, and ease of installation.
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    Analog Devices announces worlds first long-reach, Single-pair Power over Ethernet (SPoE) solutions for smart building and factory automation.
  • Analog Devices new SPoE solutions, LTC4296-1 and LTC9111 , address the challenges of providing power and data to devices, even in remote, difficult to access endpoint locations.