Broadcom, trying to defend its dominance in the market for networking chips, introduced its latest line of Ethernet switches that can be programmed for many different purposes and replace costly ...

The dawn of software defined networking (SDN) ushered in an era of disaggregation of the networking control plane from the data plane; management of the network was no longer bound to the networking ...

Broadcom launched a new Trident chip that sports four-times the speed of its previous iteration and blurs the performance line with the firm’s high-end Tomahawk product. It could also play a more ...

Intel agreed last week to acquire networking startup Barefoot Networks, in a move to compete with Broadcom in the market for Ethernet switch silicon. Barefoot sells chips that can be programmed to ...