Optical interconnect startup CScale emerges from stealth with investments from Nvidia, Intel
Californian startup raised $145m in Series C funding round
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Arista smashes revenue records with $3B+; CEO bullish on supply chain overhaul
Multi-year purchase commitments triple as Arista tightens supply to push further into non-Nvidia accelerator networking
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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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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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MicroLED manufacturer nabs Nvidia director to drive AI data center push
AMS-Osram, known for auto lighting, taps Ashkan Seyedi to lead new optical interconnect business
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DriveNets unveils high-capacity AI fabric platforms to connect thousands of XPUs
Broadcom silicon powers 1.6T offering aiming to reduce network latency for AI workloads
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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’
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Ayar Labs joins NVLink Fusion, bringing co-packaged optics to Nvidia's AI infrastructure
Optical interconnect startup to bring photonics to boost rack-scale connectivity
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Astera Labs debuts Scorpio switches to power single-hop AI scale-up
Scorpio X-Series 320 looks to minimize latency in large AI clusters, while P-Series expands to broaden PCIe 6 switch options
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Upscale AI bets on pure‑play, open‑standards switches for AI fabrics
Startup claims it can avoid legacy networking ‘baggage’ and design purely for AI workloads
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Nvidia-backed Lumentum expands US manufacturing footprint for AI optical interconnects
Laser optics developer acquires Qorvo fab in Greensboro with retrofit plans for InP laser production
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Nvidia backs copper in next-gen interconnects amid CPO push
CEO Jensen Huang says industry needs ‘a lot more capacity for copper’ alongside optics to meet ecosystem growth
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Nvidia, Broadcom form group to standardize optical interconnects for next-gen AI clusters
OCI-MSA looks to drive open 'plug-and-play ecosystem’ in the notoriously fierce optics market
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AI switch startup Eridu exits stealth with $200M to shatter ‘network wall’
Funding from Bosch, MediaTek, and John Doerr to fuel startup’s mission to support millions of GPUs and achieve up to 70% in power savings
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Microsoft and Meta drive new Ethernet standards for AI era
The Open Compute Project launches specifications for post-InfiniBand networking
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AI back-end networks to drive data center switch spending past $100B by 2030
Dell'Oro Group report sees Ethernet to prevail over InfiniBand in data center fabrics, even as proprietary technologies like UALink gain traction
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Keysight and Point2 testing multiterabit RF interconnects to power AI scale-up
E-Tube RF validation to examine an energy-efficient, low-latency alternative to copper
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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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Ethernet Alliance unveils 2026 roadmap charting network evolution for the AI era
Strategic guide details how Ethernet will scale to meet surging demands from AI, cloud computing, and emerging technologies
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Broadcom engineer backs ESUN, UEC as open interconnect pivot points
The vendor is a big Ethernet backer
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OCP forms group to advance Ethernet for AI scale-up networking
ESUN working group brings together AMD, Nvidia, Cisco, and others to develop open standards for connecting GPUs within AI clusters