SDxCentral Magazine - Issue 2
7-Eleven networks in Taiwan, Verizon’s CTO, OpenAI's networking, and AMD's head of networking tech
News - SmartNICs, DPUs & ASICs, Networking
The latest news on networking, cloud, and AI infrastructure
Featured
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Cisco nabs Nvidia for pluggable power up, snuggles closer to SONiC
More power out and less power consumption
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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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Broadcom comes out fighting in Nvidia AI networking race
EMEA network chief touts Ethernet lead; lauds OpenAI protocol as networking standard for scale-up and out
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Meta bakes networking on-chip in custom silicon designed to cut CPU hops
MTIA 300’s house onboard NICs to ditch PCIe bottlenecks
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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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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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India’s chip ambitions advance as networking silicon startup marks milestone
Government-backed startup’s Vihaan chip to enter production tape-out in 2027
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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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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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AMD, Oriole Networks partner on nanosecond photonic networks for AI
UCL spinout claims its optical switching tech can cut AI network power usage by 81%
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Broadcom bets big on AI infrastructure as networking and XPU demand hits ‘insatiable’ levels
Hock Tan unveils $35 billion AI XPU platform as bookings nearly triple quarterly shipments
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Lambda offers glimpse into Nvidia’s CPO switch, enabling 'more tokens' through substantial power savings
Microsoft-backed neocloud showcases liquid-cooled Quantum-X Q3450-LD, highlighting efficiency benefits and a lack of need for traditional transceivers
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AI networking challenger DriveNets secures $410M to propel heterogeneous infra
Strategic backing from AMD sees vendor vying to scale AI fabric inventory and expand solutions designed to maximize utilization
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AMD debuts MI350 PCIe card to accelerate enterprise AI workloads
Chip giant extends accelerator peripheral lineup as it looks to meet bandwidth-booming workload demands
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Nvidia seeks materials engineer as its networking ambitions generate heat in more ways than one
Liquid cooling hire comes as reports suggest ConnectX-9 power consumption is already causing headaches
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Nvidia thinks it has dethroned Cisco as the world's biggest networking company
Nvidia's reinvention of Ethernet for AI workloads has quickly and quietly made it a networking powerhouse
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Microsoft reveals Maia 200 & network architecture pushing scale-up inference efficiency
Hyperscaler leverages a two-tier Ethernet-based topology, custom AI Transport Layer & software tools to deliver a tightly integrated, low-latency platform
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Nvidia earnings soar as chip giant’s networking segment continues to drive AI boom
Demand for its Ethernet products now ‘on par’ with that of InfiniBand
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VMware stuffs security into smartNICs
Effort builds collab with chipmakers to provide a consistent management platform for distributed compute across accelerators
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Compute Express Link eyes hardware push in 2021
CXL has big beneficial implications for a wide range of industries, including high-performance computing and hyperscalers like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft
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Intel, Linux Foundation launch open source silicon groups
Both new groups formed just days before the granddaddy of open source hardware groups, Open Compute Project (OCP), holds its annual summit. All three focus on “fundamentally different areas”