Intel is still looking to smooth out their operations under new CEO Lip-Bu Tan. The announcement came last week that Intel is going to be cutting more positions. Initial reports rumored that it could be as much 20,000 employees but CFO David Zinsner refuted that number last Friday. Instead, each department will assess their structure and decide whether to cut positions or offer voluntary packages. Zinsner cautioned that not all buyout offers would be accepted. Additionally, early retirements would not be offered, as previously these had led to other issues in the long term. This and more on the Tech Field Day News Rundown.

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• 5:39 - Q-CTRL Reveals Quantum Navigation System
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• 14:06 - Factory Settings added to Commvault's Cleanroom Recovery
• 17:46 - Safeguarding NATS and Open Source
• 23:13 - HPE Expands Cybersecurity Across Platforms
• 26:54 - Another Round of Layoffs for Intel as they Streamline
• 33:44 - The Weeks Ahead
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Chris Krebs is a well-known figure in the cybersecurity space. As the former head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Krebs was responsible for directing security for the US federal government starting 2018. Krebs was fired from CISA in 2020 by President Donald Trump for his stance on the 2020 election. Last week, President Trump stripped Krebs of his security clearances for this 4-year-old issue. Krebs then announced that he would be stepping down from his role at security company SentinelOne in order to prevent the company from being harmed by what appears to be a personal issue between the president of the United States and a private citizen that dared to disagree with him.

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• 2:47 - VMware Brings Back Free ESXi
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• 8:05 - Hammerspace Gains Investors for AI Data Performance Standard
• 11:32 - Google Ad Tech Deemed Monopolized by Federal Judge
• 13:47 - HPE Stake Rises with Elliott Engagement
• 17:45 - Chris Krebs Resigns from SentinelOne
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At Intel Vision 2025, CEO Lip-Bu Tan emphasized a customer-centric strategy, focusing on advancements in AI PCs, Gaudi 3 accelerators, and the 18A process node. He introduced the concept of “Physical AI,” highlighting Intel’s commitment to integrating AI into hardware solutions across various sectors. Tan’s leadership aims to position Intel at the forefront of AI-driven innovation by enhancing its product portfolio and foundry capabilities. This and more on the Tech Field Day News Rundown.

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• 0:45 - Welcome to the Tech Field Day News Rundown
• 2:01 - Trump Shifts Stance on NVIDIA Chip Ban
• 7:29 - Remember Windows 11 Recall? It's Back!
• 11:31 - Solo.io Adds MCP Gateway to API Platform
• 14:43 - Dell Launches PowerEdge Servers with Intel Xeon 6 Chips
• 20:27 - Google Cloud Paving the Way for AI Transformation from Google Cloud Next

• 26:32 - Intel to Sell off 51% of Altera Chip Business to Silver Lake
• 31:08 - Embracing Physical AI at Intel Vision 2025
• 40:50 - The Weeks Ahead
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Half a century is a long time for an IT business, and Microsoft is justified in making a lot of noise to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary. The celebration brought together three Microsoft CEOs: Gates, Balmer, and Nadella. Microsoft CoPilot isn’t quite as old as the company, but it was still at the center of the celebrations. Many Microsoft products have come and gone over fifty years. Is CoPilot going to be one of the keepers? This and more on the Tech Field Day News Rundown.

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• 12:07 - Juniper Networks and Palo Alto Products are Being Probed
• 15:55 - IBM launches the AI Mainframe
• 20:05 - HPE Announces Aruba Central VPC Options
• 24:32 - Microsoft Turns Fifty
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During the keynote for Intel VIsion 2025, new CEO Lip-Bu Tan told the attendees about his vision for the return of Intel. He said that intel needs to attract engineering talent, fix the balance sheet issues, and look at manufacturing processes. One of the biggest ways to take care of those last two that was proposed was Intel spinning off non-core business units. He also asked customers to be "brutally honest" with the company going forward. He also reiterated his focus in going to be on engineering talent, either by hiring new engineers or encouraging former Intel employees to return. This and more on the Tech Field Day News Rundown.

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• 10:39 - Broadcom Raises Minimum VMware Core Count
• 15:22 - Google Suggestions Change TLS Certificates
• 19:48 - CoreWeave IPO Cools Down
• 26:43 - Broadcom Debuts Networking Chips for AI Workloads
• 31:06 - Lip-Bu Tan Lays Out Intel Recovery Plans

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This week has been a big one for messaging privacy. The news broke on Monday that the Editor-in-Chief for The Atlantic magazine was accidentally added to a Signal group where members of the US government were talking about highly classified military actions. The report kicked off a firestorm of Congressional hearings about the nature of data sharing and privacy for not only government officials but members of the defense and intelligence community. This has also raised questions about the way that those same officials will often circumvent policy to facilitate communications. While the nature of the group and their discussion topic is highly political in nature let's focus on the communications aspect. Why did they use Signal? How can we be sure it's safe? And what does this mean for government agencies that still want to create backdoors into secure protocols? This and more on the Tech Field Day News Rundown.

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• 1:13 - Employers target engineers with LLM skills
• 4:09 - Google Acquires Wiz for $32 Billion after Previous Offer Falls Through
• 8:33 - AI Applications are putting cloud workloads at risk
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• 16:47 - Cloud FinOps is driving application repatriation
• 23:27 - Dynamo is the NVIDIA operating system for your AI Factory
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NVIDIA unveiled new AI-focused chips at its GTC conference, including the Blackwell Ultra series launching this year and the next-gen Vera Rubin GPUs set for 2026. CEO Jensen Huang emphasized the company’s shift to an annual release cycle, a departure from its previous biennial schedule. This move reflects NVIDIA's response to the growing AI market and increasing competition. This and more on the Rundown.

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• 0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown
• 2:29 - Taara Spun Out from Google's Parent Company Alphabet
• 6:41 - Intel Names Lip-Bu Tan as New CEO
• 12:38 - DevOps Gets Empowered by Semaphore Going Open Source
• 16:38 - Microsoft’s New Quantum Chip Greeted with Major Skepticism
• 22:04 - Solo.io Launches Kagent for Agentic AI-Driven Cloud Ops
• 25:37 - Amazon, Google, and Meta Nuclear Datacenters by 2050
• 29:38 - NVIDIA Reveals Rubin AI and Blackwell Ultra
• 40:58 - The Weeks Ahead
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We've spoken at length about the CHIPS Act for the past year or so and you know that we've been big proponents of bringing semiconductor manufacturing back to the US. The latest news from the federal governement isn't so rosy though. According to reports, the current administration is trying to find ways to prevent the funding for the act from being disbursed. Options floated include firing the staff at NIST responsible for sending out the money as well as clawing back the funding for "non-performance" which is the only way for the money to be returned to the government. The news comes as the administration is contemplating tariffs on TSMC even after the announcement of $100 billion in US funding.

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13:16 - ASML Opening Chinese Facility

18:18 - Druva Powering Enhanced Azure Data Security

21:55 - Cerebras Opening New AI Accelerator Datacenters

28:20 - Is The CHIPS Act Crushed?

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I want to take you back to the halcyon days of just a few weeks ago when we discussed the ways that NVIDIA AI chips were showing up in China even though they were under US embargo not to be able to get this advanced technology. This came as a result of a last minute policy decision from the outgoing Biden administration that blocked the Chinese from buying these chips. Now, companies like Microsoft are urging the new presidential administration to rescind the ban to give them access to the growing AI market in China. Chinese authorities are firing back at the ban by tellling their researchers to avoid visiting the US. And third parties are making a fortune reshipping shipments of restricted items to China from places like Singapore, where police just arrested three men charged with running an operation of that nature. This and more on the Rundown.

Time Stamps: 0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown 1:35 - Intel Pushes Ohio Fab Again to 20304:45 - Nokia Acquires Infinera 7:55 - Qualcomm and IBM Raise GenAI Competitive Stakes11:00 - Microsoft hangs up on Skype14:56 - US Enterprises waste $44.5B on needless cloud spend20:13 - Aviz Next ONES to Support Spectrum-X24:44 - China is Getting Banned Blackwell?34:11 - The Weeks Ahead 36:40 - Thanks for Watching

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We've talked about quantum computing before but Microsoft created a quantum quake in the tech space last week. They announced a new quantum computer chip that took seventeen years to make. The Majorana-1 uses a brand new Topological Core technology that reduces error rates significantly and could create chips with as much as one million qubits of processing power per unit. Microsoft's researchers reportedly created a new state of matter in the accompanying research paper published to Nature to help them create the method for increasing the power of the chip. This and more on The Rundown.Time Stamps: 0:00 - Welcome to the Rundown1:15 - Docker Pauses Pull Plans5:30 - Default Passwords Strike Again8:12 - Apple is Betting on AI Infrastructure12:00 - Cisco and NVIDIA Expand Their Partnership15:57 - T-Mobile Dials Up Cloud Efficiency Drive with Red Hat OpenShift19:37 - HP Ends 15 Minute Tech Support Wait Time24:37 - Microsoft's Quantum Computing Breakthrough with Majorana 1 Chip33:29 - The Weeks Ahead35:25 - Thanks for WatchingHosts: Tom Hollingsworth: https://www.linkedin.com/in/networkingnerd/Alastair Cooke: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alastaircooke/Follow Gestalt ITWebsite: https://www.GestaltIT.com/Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/GestaltITLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/Gestalt-IT #Rundown, #AI, #Majorana1, @Docker, @Microsoft, @Apple, @HP, @TMobile, @Cisco, @NVIDIA, @GestaltIT, @NetworkingNerd, @DemitasseNZ, @TechFieldDay,