Key Hyperscalers And Chip Makers Gang Up On NVIDIA Nvswitch Interconnect
TheNextPlatform, Thursday, May 30th, 2024
The generative AI revolution is making strange bedfellows, as revolutions and emerging monopolies that capitalize on them, often do.
The Ultra Ethernet Consortium was formed in July 2023 to take on Nvidia's InfiniBand high performance interconnect, which has quickly and quite profitably become the de facto standard for linking GPU accelerated nodes to each other. And now the Ultra Accelerator Link consortium is forming from many of the same companies to take on Nvidia's NVLink protocol and NVLink Switch (sometimes called NVSwitch) memory fabric for linking GPUs into shared memory clusters inside of a server node and across multiple nodes in a pod.