Cisco Scales Out Quantum Systems With A Quantum Network Switch
…IBM isn’t the only vendor or research group pushing to grow the number of qubits in a system. Atom computing in 2023 announced a quantum computer with more than 1,180…
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Bechtolsheim & Friends Breathe Life Into Pluggable Optics One Last Time
…Nvidia also inked multi-billion dollar, multi-year supply agreements with these companies. And later in March, Nvidia inked a similar $2 billion deal with Marvell to add NVLink Fusion ports to…
New Google Networks Tuned Up For GenAI Inference And Training
…The torus topology has multiple dimensions, as the name suggests, and have been popular in some supercomputer architectures – IBM’s BlueGene massively parallel machines used a 3D torus and the “K” and…
SambaNova Pits Its Engineering Against Nvidia For Agentic AI
…As usual, estimates made by The Next Platform are in bold red italics. To get the 2.5X performance that SambaNova says the SN50 provides over the SN40L at FP16 half precision…
The Second Time Will Be The IPO Charm For Cerebras
…The company’s Series G funding round came in at $1.1 billion in October 2025 , pushing its valuation up to $8.1 billion, and another $1 billion in Series H funding…
Nvidia NeMo Microservices For AI Agents Hits The Market
…Nvidia’s NeMo microservices – which are deployed via Nvidia’s AI Enterprise software platform – pass data along a chain, starting with NeMo Curator for processing data at scale for training and customization…
Arm Comes Full Circle With Homegrown, AI-Tuned Server CPU
…This I/O may link out over DPUs to Ethernet switches, with both running the ESUN memory coherency protocol that Meta Platforms is pushing. (Or rather, pulling.) Those PCI-Express 6.0…
Designing Chips With The Cloud And Edge In Mind
…for yield and manufacturability,” Kolla said. “Disaggregation does push the integration challenges to other areas. Advanced packaging techniques must adapt to efficiently integrating multiple dies. Die-to-die link latency and bandwidth…
Driving Down The AI System Roadmap With Nvidia
…While we are always pushing for compute engine makers to do CPO on their devices, they can be copper on that end with a multitier network of switch ASICs using CPO on…
Arista Modular Switches Aim At Scale Across Networks, Hit Scale Out, Too
…You can do it with the Jericho 3+ ASICs, as Brendan Gibbs , vice president of AI, routing, and switching platforms at Arista Networks, explains to The Next Platform . All of these Jericho…