Although CES is traditionally a consumer show, we often see announcements there that are relevant in enterprise IT as well. That was certainly the case with two big CPU announcements from Intel and AMD this week. We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown.  

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Join us for a year-end rundown of the biggest stories each month of 2021. Stephen and Tom wrap up the year with their thoughts on the news that shaped the IT world.

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It wasn't a good weekend for security pros all over the world. Alibaba Cloud disclosed a vulnerability in a Java logging service named Log4j. The first reports were seen as vulnerabilities in Minecraft servers but the attack surface quickly exploded as the number of programs and platforms that incorporated Log4j grew. We discuss this story and more on this week's Rundown.  

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Intel acquired Mobileye, the autonomous driving solution company, back in 2017 . They announced this week that they want to offer an IPO in mid-2022 to help unlock the soaring value found in autonomous cars and the software that runs them. And things aren't going so hot for NVIDIA. The FTC has filed a lawsuit in federal court to halt the proposed $40 billion acquisition of chip maker ARM. We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown.  

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AWS re:Invent is happening live and in-person through December 3rd and the event has a lot of attention. And Apple has announced a lawsuit against the maker of the Pegasus intelligence software, NSO Group,  that we've previously covered here on the Rundown. We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown.

Last week, Gen-Z, the open systems interconnect solution backed by AMD, Broadcom, Dell, Micron, and more, announced that they will be folding and will also be absorbed into competitor Compute Express Link (CXL). And NVIDIA has hit yet another roadblock in its acquisition of ARM. We discuss these stories and more in this week's Rundown!

This is a big week for NVIDIA as they held their GTC show and talked about all the newest advances they've been working on. And not to be outdone, AMD also had some big announcements this week. We discuss these stories and more on this week's Rundown.  

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VMware is now an independent company, having been spun out of the Dell EMC behemoth. We discuss this story and much more on this week's Rundown.  

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Intel announced their earnings were down in the client arena for Q3. On the other hand, AMD is thrilled because they were up across the board big time. We discuss this story and much more on this week's Rundown.   

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Big news this week for Linux fans: the newest version of Ubuntu has just released. We discuss this story and more on this week's Rundown.  

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