Beaverton, Ore. – Jan. 14, 2025 – The Ultra Accelerator Link Consortium, developer of the UALink for AI clusters, has announced the expansion of its board of directors with the election of Alibaba Cloud Computing Ltd., Apple Inc., and Synopsys Inc. UALink said the new board members will share their industry knowledge for development and […]

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A happy holiday season to you! As we enter Christmas week, here’s a quick (6:14) run-through of  recent news from the world of HPC-AI, including: long thinking AI – the next new big thing?, UALink and optical I/O – a possible next new big thing in interconnects, Arm vs. Qualcomm ....

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SUNNYVALE, Calif., Dec. 11, 2024 — Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced the industry’s first Ultra Ethernet IP and UALink IP solutions, including controllers, PHYs, and verification IP, to meet the demand for standards-based, high-bandwidth, and low-latency HPC and AI accelerator interconnects. As hyperscale data center infrastructures evolve to support the processing of trillions of parameters in large language models, they must scale to […]

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Beaverton, Ore. – October 29, 2024 – The Ultra Accelerator Link (UALink) Consortium, led by board members from AMD, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Astera Labs, Cisco, Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Intel, Meta and Microsoft, have announced the incorporation of the consortium and are extending an invitation for membership to the community. The UALink Promoter […]

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A good June day to you! What follows is a rapid (7:59) run-though of the latest news from the world of HPC-AI, including: At Computex 2024: Nvidia Rubin and Vera ....

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