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The Korean government has asked the US to ease its Chips Act rules for Samsung and SK Hynix. It's not clear how far the US will go to accommodate them.
In this roundup of SASE updates: Comcast Business brought in a new SD-WAN customer while Versa Networks expanded its presence in Latin America. Netskope also launched a new SASE service for remote workers.
New Zealand's largest telco, Spark, sees growth from data center demand and convergence as it unveils its latest three-year strategy. Spark believes local data center capacity will grow at more than 40% CAGR by 2026.
The US chipmaker reckons the RAN industry is too small to keep pace with design changes that will benefit its general-purpose processors, but not everyone is convinced.
Airtel Nxtra, the data center arm of India's second-largest service provider, Bharti Airtel, is looking to capture a greater share of India's burgeoning data center market as competition heats up.