Many interesting, and thought-provoking items of interest in this entire article.
Early in January, Annapurna Labs, Ltd., an Israeli chip designer that Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) bought for between $350 and $375 million last year, sent out a press release saying it will start rolling out a new line of ARM-based chips called Alpine, which can run WiFi routers, power connected devices, and handle networking and storage functions for data centers. The chips will be sold to makers of products for homes and data centers.
Here is what Intel Senior Vice President General Manager, Data Center Group, Diane Bryant told Business Insider:
When you have 97% share of the market, you're always looking for where the competition may come in, … As long as I can give the cloud service providers the best technology, I believe [customers] will continue to rely on us based on the investment that we make.".
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