Enfabrica takes a shot at fixing AI compute scaling problem
Enfabrica is building massive scale interconnect silicon, a Server Fabric Adapter (SFA), an accelerated fabric silicon device to link intelligent end-point devices inside racks and also between...
Verge.io adds datacenter recipe book to VergeOS
Datacenter virtualizer Verge.io has delivered the Atria release of its VergeOS, adding Edge Edition software, edge site management, external backup support and datacenter templates called Recipes.
Fungible shareholder sues company: Wants to inspect the books prior to $190m Microsoft deal
Fungible stockholder and ex-employee Naveen Gupta has filed a lawsuit against the company, seeking to "investigate potential wrongdoing and breaches of fiduciary duties."
The...
Unifabrix CXL memory node boosts core use
Israeli startup Unifabrix demonstrated its Smart Memory Node at SC22 and we wrote an initial account of its technology here. The intent was to demonstrate remote memory pooling...
Storage news ticker – December 15
Apache Cassandra v4.1 is a milestone release that's mainly a feature update geared toward preparing for the major changes for developers in 5.0. Significant core services changes...
Fungible sold to Microsoft for $190 million, say multiple sources
DPU startup Fungible has been sold to Microsoft for $190 million despite raising more than $300 million in funding since its incorporation in 2015, according to multiple...
Astera Labs spears CXL chip funding
Silicon valley startup and new unicorn Astera Labs has raked in $150 million in funding on top of delivering its Leo CXL Memory pooling and sharing controllers.
Competition gets heated on Fungible’s DPU patch
Data processing unit startup Fungible is facing increasing competition as its avenues for growth become restricted and ever more fiercely contested.
The company was...
Data processor Kalray steps onto world stage
France-based Kalray has signed a major contract with an unnamed NASDAQ-listed tech organization to develop and supply acceleration cards and support the customer’s development teams for their...
Startup UnifabriX exits stealth mode with CXL 3.0 Smart Memory device demo
Israeli startup UnifabriX is demonstrating a CXL 3.0-connected Smart Memory device for data center and HPC memory pooling
The demo is taking place at...
Dell has Liqid route to CXL memory pooling
Dell has shown how its MX7000 composable server chassis can be used with Liqid technology to add PCIe gen 4-connected GPUs and other accelerators to the composable...
IntelliProp has chips to build CXL fabric
Startup IntelliProp has announced its Omega Memory Fabric chips so servers can share internal and external memory with CXL, going beyond CPU socket limits and speeding memory-bound...
Liqid staff leave the business amid restructure
Composable systems startup Liqid has confirmed some executive movements near the top of the org chart amid unrelated restructuring on the shop floor.
DPU startup Fungible lays off staff – sources
DPU developer Fungible has, according to industry sources, laid off a number of employees as it focuses on the mature storage market for its data processing unit...
TidalScale and inverted server virtualization
Nine-year-old startup TidalScale has developed a distributed hyperkernel which combines different nodes in a cluster of physical servers into a software-defined server. It enables inverse virtualization, combining...
Fungible testing computational storage on DPUs
Fungible, a developer of Data Processing Unit (DPU) chips for offloading east-west networking operations including storage array access from server X86 CPUs, is testing computational storage applications...
CXL memory pools: Just how big can they be?
CXL 2.0 will enable memory pooling, which sounds great, but a bit vague. How big can the memory pools be? There is no firm answer yet, but...
Storage news ticker – June 23
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Data protection and security business Acronis has sponsored another sporting team: Scotland's Hibernian FC. Acronis will become become Hibernian FC's Principal Cyber Protection...