SDxCentral Magazine - Issue 2
7-Eleven networks in Taiwan, Verizon’s CTO, OpenAI's networking, and AMD's head of networking tech
News - AI & HPC, Networking
The latest news on networking, cloud, and AI infrastructure
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Ultra Ethernet Consortium releases Version 1.1 to boost scale-up networking and congestion control
Standard update targets AI network bottlenecks
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Nvidia adds Google Falcon support to meet growing transport diversity demands
Falcon swoops in to join MRC
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Meta builds custom 'IceCube' AI network switch using Nvidia's Spectrum-6 ASICs
Switch pairs FBOSS OS with 102T chip for 100K+ GPU clusters
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Nvidia-backed Upscale unveils fabric that lets engineers break vendor lock-in and mix rival XPUs
Upscale’s Token Fabric to create network bridge for the dream of heterogeneous computing
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Lambda poaches AWS director to lead software and AI networking engineering
Fiachra Groarke joins neocloud given early access to Nvidia CPO switches
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OpenAI seeks technician to lead network buildout for unidentified 'partner' campus at Stargate Abilene
Successful candidate would also work on networks for ‘future OpenAI data center projects’
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Global memory stocks down to just one week’s supply as drought digs in until 2028
Bad news, more bad news as Smith's chief trading officer gives AI storage and compute a reality check
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SDxCentral Magazine out now: How 7-Eleven networks Taiwan together
Understand the network behind Taiwan’s own backbone
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Cisco missed the MRC memo, so an engineer built his own multiplane party
Cisco engineer DIYs an MRC emulator
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Huawei bets big on near-packaged optics with 7.2T module to fuel AI scaling
Vendor champions open NPO play over CPO for AI networks
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Nvidia chip gem Groq swipes Meta network chief Ola Kasali
Networking head hire shows LPU maker still standing on two feet after Nvidia's mega-bucks infusion this year
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Meta’s custom transport protocol embraces packet chaos to boost AI throughput
MetaRoCE reimagines Ethernet data transfers to fix network latency at AI scale
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Scale-in? Nvidia’s ‘fifth’ pillar of AI networking rests on shaky ground
Nebulous Hot Chip updates include apparent acceleration for north-south traffic and a multiplane configuration ‘spotlight’
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SK Hynix banks on optical interconnects to defend its HBM crown
South Korean giant backs light to unlock next-gen AI memory performance
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NEC taps Cornelis to aid AI and HPC networking in Japan
Successful tests in Europe will see the pair deploy Omni-Path and eventual Ethernet-based platforms
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Cerebras unveils low latency AI workload speed demon rack-scale platform
CS-4 promises 30-times faster AI workloads compared to GPU platforms with latency as low as two milliseconds
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Industry giants unite to define open co-packaged optics for next-gen AI infrastructure
Lightmatter and OCP work to standardize silicon photonic interconnects for future AI cluster backbones
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AI hyperscale and agentic demands helped Cisco smash revenue records
AI infrastructure push pays off with triple-digit hyperscale order growth
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Ex-Aruba CTO unveils optical startup armed with $900M to scale AI interconnectivity
Qualcomm-backed Lumilens debuts at a $5.5 billion valuation, with a mystery hyperscale customer already on board
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Corning targets $10B ‘inside-the-box’ opportunity with AI-driven optics demand
CEO Wendell Weeks sees exponential adoption for co-packaged optics in AI infrastructure across scale-up and scale-out networking
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Nokia eyes Ethernet evolution in OpenAI-developed MRC protocol
Network giant touts potential of OpenAI’s distributed AI training transport
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Bull, Kalray unite to develop Ultra Ethernet AI interconnects
Sovereignty-centric team up to challenge non-European AI networking dominance
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AI back-end networking spend to hit $1T by 2030: report
Scale-up interconnects emerge as a multihundred-billion-dollar market category
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AMD challenges Nvidia’s networking dominance with Helios racks boasting 50% higher bandwidth
Featuring programmable 400G DPUs and a single-hop fabric, Helios targets a streamlined, open-standards approach to rival NVL72
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Nvidia crowned AI networking’s top dog, but its throne isn’t quite safe
Gartner server CPU gong goes to AMD while Marvell outclasses on optical connectivity
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Microsoft ramps hiring for photonic AI interconnect push
Hyperscale wants photonics boffins to wire up its AI infrastructure with light
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HPE’s Slingshot tops supercomputer interconnects, but China steals the show
China crashed the TOP500 list with a mystery interconnect powering a 2.2 exaflop CPU-only monster
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Nvidia tops Ethernet data center switch charts by revenue as sales soar
IDC labels Spectrum-X ‘the preferred network interconnect for large-scale AI training’