Cisco did a pretty bad job at conveying the scope of Silicon One. Initially, it was all too easy to skip past the announcement, thinking it was just some new marketing gimmick. But buried in the first few paragraphs, Cisco confirmed that it was launching a new unified silicon architecture that would serve as the platform for all of its networking products, from the data center to the very edge of the network. This has potentially huge IoT ramifications, but it also significantly shakes up the current networking market – in Cisco’s favor. Most notably, it cuts out the likes of Intel and Broadcom, as Cisco would not need to purchase processors and networking chips from these two major…