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SK Telecom launched a new AI data center infrastructure company, with an initial $2.2 billion in funding from KKR and the IMM Investment-Stonebridge consortium. The new company, SK Horizon, will be formed from SK Telecom subsidiary SK Broadband, which will be split into the new company and a surviving SK Broadband company. SK Telecom's new AI DC organizational structure – SK Telecom SK Horizon will focus on the AI data center sector and expanding its infrastructure to 318-megawatts of capacity.

Meta has put networking front and center in its next-generation custom silicon, placing network interface cards (NICs) inside the chip package itself to reduce interconnectivity bottlenecks. Its Meta Training and Inference Accelerator (MTIA) 300 packs two network chiplets – each packing six custom 800 Gb/s remote direct memory access (RDMA) NICs – to provide 1.2 TB/s of total I/O bandwidth without the need to touch a peripheral component interconnect express (PCIe) bus.

Kyndryl and Broadcom formed a strategic alliance to secure private clouds against AI-speed threats. In an expansion of their existing partnership, the tie-up delivers end-to-end consulting for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) to help enterprises build sovereign, AI-ready private clouds. The offering was pitched as a response to a rapidly shifting landscape where frontier AI models are collapsing zero-day exploits to a matter of hours.

Marvell Technology reported net revenue of $2.7 billion for the second quarter of fiscal 2027. Representing a jump of 37% year over year (YoY), the results were driven by data center revenue totaling $2.1 billion at an increase of 46% YoY.

Everpure CEO Charles Giancarlo – Ben Wodecki/SDxCentral Everpure, the company formerly known as Pure Storage, celebrated revenues rising to $1.2 billion, a 38% year-over-year (YoY) increase for a strong quarter capped by securing another hyperscaler customer. The vendor’s financial results for its second quarter of fiscal year 2027 ended August 2, 2026, revealed product revenues of $687 million, up 54% YoY. Subscription services were also up 20%, rising to $499 million.

Wireless networks are no longer just a convenience for connecting laptops. Today, Wi-Fi is the primary access network for enterprise mobility. Employees move across offices, factories, hospitals, campuses, and public spaces while continuously accessing critical business applications. In many organizations, if the wireless network stops working, business stops working. Yet the security model protecting much of this mobility was designed nearly two decades ago.

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Nutanix continued to snatch its fair share of disgruntled VMware customers, momentum that it expects to continue over the next several years while also looking to tap into new market opportunities bolstered by reinvestment plans tied to recent job cuts.

Soaring memory prices are set to drive AI infrastructure capex even higher, with industry analyst firm TrendForce projecting a 98% year-on-year increase in 2026 and another 50% in 2027. Memory lead times from some of the biggest providers are already stretched as far out as 2028. But spending on such hardware in the coming years will continue to soar.

Japanese operator NTT DoCoMO partnered with Mitsubishi Estate to develop 5G-driven smart districts in Tokyo. DoCoMo will develop an infrastructure base or "cluster" that considers the urban landscape and leverages antenna placement suitable for millimeter-wave (mmWave) radio wave coverage. The Otemachi, Marunouchi, and Yurakucho districts of Tokyo's densely urban Chiyoda ward, which fall under the collective name of Marunouchi, will be home to the clusters.