Daily Roundup: Trump Cuts Off China’s Top Chipmaker

In case you’ve been stuck in video conference meetings all day, here are today’s top stories from SDxCentral. Also, make sure to subscribe to our daily newsletters to get these stories in your inbox. In case you’ve been stuck in video conference meetings all day, here are today’s top stories from SDxCentral. Also, make sure to subscribe to our daily newsletters to get these stories in your inbox. A provision in the restriction effectively bans China’s largest chipmaker from acquiring the U.S. technologies required to produce 10 nanometer and smaller chips. Read more. “It’s important to recognize that there’s no one size fits all — no magical HCI unicorn that can optimally address the needs of every workload and every business,” HPE’s Tom Black said. Read more. The analyst group predicts mainstream adoption of 800 Gb/s optics, upgrades to 400 Gb/s line rates across all spans, and wider application of wavelength division multiplexing. Read more. Harvester focuses on the HCI users and doesn’t expose users to Kubernetes concepts, Rancher Labs co-founder Sheng Liang explained. Read more. The donation builds on a past commitment and could further smooth over what has been a tense year between the two organizations. Read more. SDxCentral Weekly Wrap for Dec. 18, 2020: AWS snares more than a dozen SD-WAN vendors into its VPC, predicts the demise of IoT; and VMware wants to pave the world with Tanzu. Stream now.