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Corey Dirrig is the Media and Content Specialist at Gestalt IT, bringing years of community building and leadership experience to the table. He works alongside his colleagues to organize, build, create, and share content across social media. He also manages the content on the Gestalt IT and Tech Field Day websites. Corey is most excited about building the community both through social and in-person interactions at Tech Field Day.

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.

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.

The HPE ProLiant server line has long been a cornerstone of enterprise IT, delivering reliable performance across data centers, cloud environments, and edge computing. HPE continues to innovate with the latest Gen12 servers, featuring advancements like liquid cooling and AI acceleration, alongside industry-leading security and management with iLO.

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.

When Dell rolled out a new array of IT infrastructure solutions at the recent NVIDIA GTC conference, the company touted its “Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA” theme to help market the products. NVIDIA, for its part, was eager to support the alliance. During NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote, he spotlighted Dell for offering “the industry’s broadest end-to-end Nvidia AI enterprise infrastructure” solutions.

Akamai is adding support for video processing units (VPUs) based on a set of ASICs developed by NETINT Technologies within a set of Akamai Cloud Accelerated Compute Instances being launched today. Ari Weil, vice president of product marketing for Akamai, said that as video becomes more integrated into almost every application experience, the need for a new class of processors to optimize processing of this type of data has reached a tipping point.

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.

When DeepSeek’s artificial intelligence (AI) model became widely known early this year, it prompted an enormous debate in the tech industry: Would the Chinese AI model, with its frugal use of compute resources, lower the need for NVIDIA’s high-performance GPUs? Certainly the stock market thought so, with NVIDIA’s stock plummeting by nearly 17% in one day.

As AI investment surges around the world, European chipmakers are lobbying the region’s leaders to update the 2023 Chips Act to enable greater competitiveness for the European chip sector in the global market. The 2023 Chips Act was a well-intentioned — if not entirely successful — effort to advance chip manufacturing in the Eurozone. The Act did spur significant levels of investment in chip manufacture.