SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 10, 2024 — Synopsys (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced what it said is the industry’s first PCIe 7.0 IP solution consisting of controller, IDE security module, PHY, and verification IP. The company said the offering will enable chip makers to address demanding bandwidth and latency requirements for transferring massive amounts of data for compute-intensive AI […]
VAST Data to be Data Platform for Cisco Nexus HyperFabric for GenAI with Nvidia
June 4, 2024 by Leave a Comment
NEW YORK & LAS VEGAS – June 4, 2024 – AI data platform company VAST Data today at Cisco Live 2024 announced it is collaborating with Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO), the leader in enterprise networking and security, and NVIDIA on a solution to offer enterprises high performance AI infrastructure coupled with an Ethernet-based AI fabric to […]
HPC News Bytes 20240603: New Nvidia, AMD Chips at Computex, Industry Heavies Back UALink, Europe’s 2nd Exascale, Approaching AI Bubble?
June 3, 2024 by Leave a Comment
A good June day to you! What follows is a rapid (7:59) run-though of the latest news from the world of HPC-AI, including: At Computex 2024: Nvidia Rubin and Vera ….
Lenovo and Cisco Announce AI Partnership
May 30, 2024 by Leave a Comment
May 30, 2024 – Lenovo and Cisco today unveiled a partnership intended to deliver fully integrated infrastructure and networking solutions designed to accelerate digital transformation for businesses of all sizes. The two companies have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) agreement to jointly establish design, engineering, and execution plans for accelerating digital transformation with turnkey […]
Ultra Accelerator Link Group for Data Center AI Connectivity Formed: AMD, Broadcom, Cisco, Google, HPE, Intel, Meta and Microsoft
May 30, 2024 by Leave a Comment
BEAVERTON, Ore.– AMD, Broadcom, Cisco, Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Intel, Meta and Microsoft today announced they have aligned to develop a new industry standard dedicated to advancing high-speed and low latency communication for scale-up AI systems linking in data centers. Called the Ultra Accelerator Link (UALink), this initial group will define and establish an […]
PCI-SIG Announces CopprLink Cable Specifications for PCIe 5.0 and 6.0
May 1, 2024 by Leave a Comment
BEAVERTON, Ore. – May 1, 2024 – PCI-SIG, the organization responsible for the widely adopted PCI Express (PCIe) standard, today announced the release of the CopprLink Internal and External Cable specifications. The CopprLink Cable specifications provide signaling at 32.0 and 64.0 GT/s and leverage well-established industry standard connector form factors maintained by SNIA. “The CopprLink Cable […]
NTT: Photonics Network Connects Data Centers in U.S. and U.K.
April 11, 2024 by
NTT Corporation (NTT) and NTT DATA announced the successful demonstration of All-Photonics Network (APN)-driven connections between data centers in the United States and the United Kingdom. In the U.K., NTT connected data centers north and east of London….
Photonic Fabric Company Celestial AI Closes $175M Series C
March 28, 2024 by
SANTA CLARA, Calif.– Celestial AI, creator of the Photonic Fabric optical interconnect technology platform, announced it raised $175 million in its Series C funding round led by Thomas Tull’s U.S. Innovative Technology Fund (USIT). In addition to USIT, the round included participation from new and existing investors including AMD Ventures, Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT), Temasek, […]
Oriole Networks Raises £10m for Faster LLM Training
March 27, 2024 by
London, 27 March 2024: Oriole Networks – a startup using light to train LLMs faster with less power – has raised £10 million in seed funding to improve AI performance and adoption, and solve AI’s energy problem. The round, which the company said is one of the UK’s largest seed raises in recent years, was co-led […]
XConn Releases Silicon Samples of Apollo CXL 2.0 Switch
March 27, 2024 by
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – March 26, 2024 – HPC and AI interconnect company XConn Technologies today announced the release of early production samples for its “Apollo” CXL 2.0 switch, which the company will demonstrate with Samsung during MemCon 2024, March 26-27, in Mountain View, Calif. The XConn Apollo switch is the industry’s first and only hybrid […]
