Network Break 426: NetBox Labs Raises $20 Million; Intel Foundry, Arm Team Up To Make SoCs

Take a Network Break! This week we check out a new Fortinet firewall, discuss NetBox Labs’s $20 million funding round and why it spun itself out of NS1’s IBM acquisition, and whether there’s a movement to hold tech executives responsible for tech failures (and who else should take some blame). Amazon’s annual shareholder letter acknowledges that customer concerns about AWS cloud costs are creating headwinds (but doesn’t say anything about cutting prices), juice jacking hype hijacks the media, and global PC shipments fell by a third. Intel Foundry and Arm team up on SoC manufacturing, the EU chimes in with concerns about Broadcom’s proposed VMware acquisition, and Microsoft tinkers with the Print Screen button in Windows 11. Get links to all these stories below. Sponsor: Nokia We’re sponsored today by Nokia and its data center fabric for network automation and orchestration. Nokia’s data center fabric is designed for day zero design, day one deployment, and operations for Day Two and beyond.  Find out more at nokia.ly/dc-fabric, and listen to Heavy Networking episode 653 to get details and hear customer use cases. Show Notes: FortiGate 7000F Series – FortiNet (PDF) Announcing the NetBox Labs Series A and Our Plans to Upend Network Management and Automation Forever – NetBox Labs Former TSB chief information officer fined £81,000 over IT meltdown in 2018 – The Guardian Tencent reportedly fires tech bosses after brief outages – The Register Amazon 2022 Shareholder Letter – Amazon (PDF) ‘Juice Jacking’: The Dangers of Public USB Charging Stations – Federal Communications Commission Global PC shipments suffered a drop of 33% in Q1 2023  – Canalys Global PC shipments slide in first quarter, Apple takes biggest hit, IDC says – Reuters Intel Reportedly Delays TSMC 3nm Orders for 15th Gen Arrow Lake CPUs – Tom’s Hardware Intel Foundry and Arm Announce Multigeneration Collaboration on Leading-Edge SoC Design – Intel Foundry EU says Broadcom’s proposed VMware deal could restrict competition – Reuters UK says ...