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. He also reiterated his focus in going to be on engineering talent, either by hiring new engineers or encouraging former Intel employees to return. This and more on the Tech Field Day News Rundown.
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1:25 – ?Techstrong.IT Launches?
We’re excited to announce the launch of a brand new enterprise IT focused site! Long time fans of the Rundown know all about Gestalt IT and all the great content that we’ve published there over the years. Now that we’re a part of the Futurum Group along with our friends at Techstrong we thought it was time for a new look. Make sure you update your bookmarks to Techstrong.IT! Stephen, what was the goal behind this new enterprise-focused site?
7:33 – Check Point Breached
Add Check Point to the list of companies that got breached in 2025. The attacker said that they grabbed internal network details and diagrams, hashed user passwords, and source code for software. Screenshots of admin access to the system were shared as proof. Check Point provided comment that this was a “old, known, and very pinpointed” breach which only affected three customers back in December 2024. Check Point said that the portal that was access through compromised credentials had other internal mitigations that prevented further exploitation.
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10:39 – ?Broadcom Raises Minimum VMware Core Count?
An email from a tech distributor in France made the rounds last week and highlighted a coming change to Broadcom’s minimum licensing requirements for VMware customers. The email says that starting April 10 the minimum number of licensed cores for a VMware license will change from 16 to 72. This means that servers below the minimum core count will have a new minimum enforced. There will also be increased costs for customers that do not renew their subscription licenses by the anniversary date. Speculation from affected users is that this is a way to bring smaller VMware customers into more lucrative offerings like VMware Cloud Foundation as opposed to vSphere Foundation.
Read More: VMware distributor Arrow says minimum software subs set to jump from 16 to 72 cores
15:22 – ?Google Suggestions Change TLS Certificates ?
Google announced that proposed changes to TLS certificates have been ratified by the Certification Authority Browser Forum. The first change is the inclusion of Multi-Perspective Issuance Corroboration (MPIC), which is their terminology for forcing the issuing certificate authority to verify that the requesting party has control of the domain. This is designed to prevent hijacking of all kinds, including BGP. The other proposal was for something called “linting”, which is the process of analyzing X.509 certificates for errors and correcting them. One of the biggest uses of linting is finding obsolete cryptographic methods and making the certificate owner update them to be current. It’s hoped that this will standardize certificates and increase interoperability.
Read More: New security requirements adopted by HTTPS certificate industry
19:48 – ?CoreWeave IPO Cools Down?
The big CoreWeave IPO happened last Friday but signs are already pointing to issues with the release. The company, which is a big NVIDIA partner, announced at the last minute that the price target for the release was going to move from nearly $55/share to $40/share. They also reduced the number of shares offered, which brought the total amount of funding to $1.5 billion. The shares were already trending lower at the start of the week, falling below the IPO price. This IPO was highly anticpated due to the hot AI market and CoreWeave’s GPU-as-a-Service offerings.
Read More: CoreWeave shares slump nearly 10% in second day of trading
26:43 – ?Broadcom Debuts Networking Chips for AI Workloads?
Broadcom has announced new networking chips that are aimed at the hot AI market. The Sian2M and Sian3 are digital signal processors (DSPs) that are designed to work with the 200 gigabit lanes that Broadcom is aiming at hyperscalers running 800GbE and 1.6TbE Ethernet. One of the biggest advancements in these DSPs is the reduced power consumption for fiber optics. This reduced consumption, along with advanced technologies like forward error correction (FEC) should encourage people to upgrade to the latest chipsets according to experts.
Read More: Broadcom Debuts Networking Chips for AI Workloads
31:06 – ?Lip-Bu Tan Lays Out Intel Recovery Plans?
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. He also reiterated his focus in going to be on engineering talent, either by hiring new engineers or encouraging former Intel employees to return.
Read More: New Intel CEO Outlines Corporate Comeback Plan: Innovation, Craftmanship, Culture Change
Read More: Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan Says Company Will Spin Off Non-Core Units
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