NVIDIA Introduces NVLink Fusion

<p style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">At the Computex trade show in Taiwan&comma; NVIDIA unveiled NVIDIA NVLink Fusion — new silicon that lets industries build semi-custom AI infrastructure with the vast ecosystem of partners building with <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;nvidia&period;com&sol;en-us&sol;data-center&sol;nvlink&sol;"><u>NVIDIA NVLink<&sol;u><&sol;a>&comma; the world’s most advanced and widely adopted computing fabric&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">MediaTek&comma; Marvell&comma; Alchip Technologies&comma; Astera Labs&comma; Synopsys and Cadence are among the first to adopt NVLink Fusion&comma; enabling custom silicon scale-up to meet the requirements of demanding workloads for model training and agentic AI inference&period; Using NVLink Fusion&comma; Fujitsu and Qualcomm Technologies CPUs can also be integrated with NVIDIA GPUs to build high-performance NVIDIA AI factories&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;A tectonic shift is underway&colon; for the first time in decades&comma; data centers must be fundamentally rearchitected — AI is being fused into every computing platform&comma;” said Jensen Huang&comma; founder and CEO of NVIDIA&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;NVLink Fusion opens NVIDIA’s AI platform and rich ecosystem for partners to build specialized AI infrastructures&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">NVLink Fusion also equips cloud providers with an easy path to scale out AI factories to millions of GPUs&comma; using any ASIC&comma; NVIDIA’s rack-scale systems and the NVIDIA end-to-end networking platform — which delivers up to 800Gb&sol;s of throughput and features <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;nvidia&period;com&sol;en-us&sol;networking&sol;products&sol;ethernet&sol;supernic&sol;"><u>NVIDIA ConnectX®-8 SuperNICs<&sol;u><&sol;a>&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;nvidia&period;com&sol;en-us&sol;networking&sol;spectrumx&sol;"><u>NVIDIA Spectrum-X<&sol;u><&sol;a>™ Ethernet and <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;nvidia&period;com&sol;en-us&sol;networking&sol;products&sol;infiniband&sol;quantum-x800&sol;"><u>NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand<&sol;u><&sol;a> switches&comma; with <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;nvidianews&period;nvidia&period;com&sol;news&sol;nvidia-spectrum-x-co-packaged-optics-networking-switches-ai-factories"><u>co-packaged optics<&sol;u><&sol;a> available soon&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;"><b><strong>A Technology Ecosystem Interconnected<&sol;strong><&sol;b><br &sol;>&NewLine;Using NVLink Fusion&comma; hyperscalers can work with the NVIDIA partner ecosystem to integrate NVIDIA rack-scale solutions for seamless deployment in data center infrastructure&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">AI chipmaking partners creating custom AI compute deployable with NVIDIA NVLink Fusion include MediaTek&comma; Marvell&comma; Alchip&comma; Astera Labs&comma; Synopsys and Cadence&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;By leveraging our world-class ASIC design services and deep expertise in high-speed interconnects&comma; MediaTek is collaborating with NVIDIA to build the next generation of AI infrastructure&comma;” said Rick Tsai&comma; vice chairman and CEO of MediaTek&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Our collaboration&comma; which began in the automotive segment&comma; now extends even further&comma; enabling us to deliver scalable&comma; efficient and flexible technologies that address the rapidly evolving needs of cloud-scale AI&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Marvell is collaborating with NVIDIA to redefine what’s possible for AI factory integration&comma;” said Matt Murphy&comma; chairman and CEO of Marvell&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Marvell custom silicon with NVLink Fusion gives customers a flexible&comma; high-performance foundation to build advanced AI infrastructure — delivering the bandwidth&comma; reliability and agility required for the next generation of trillion-parameter AI models&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Alchip is supporting adoption of NVLink Fusion by broadening its availability through a design and manufacturing ecosystem&comma; encompassing advanced processes and proven packaging and supported by the ASIC industry’s most flexible engagement&comma;” said Johnny Shen&comma; CEO of Alchip&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It’s our contribution to ensuring that the next generation of AI models can be trained and deployed efficiently to meet the demands of tomorrow’s intelligent applications&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Building on our rich history of close collaboration with NVIDIA&comma; we are thrilled to add purpose-built connectivity solutions to address the NVLink Fusion ecosystem&comma;” said Jitendra Mohan&comma; CEO of Astera Labs&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Low-latency and high-bandwidth scale-up interconnects with native support for memory semantics is critical for maximizing AI server utilization and performance&period; By expanding our scale-up connectivity portfolio with NVLink solutions&comma; we are providing more optionality with faster time to market for our hyperscaler and enterprise AI customers&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Data centers are transforming into AI factories&comma; and Synopsys’ industry-leading AI chip design solutions and standards-based interface IP are mission-critical enablers&comma;” said Sassine Ghazi&comma; president and CEO of Synopsys&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Our support for NVIDIA NVLink Fusion reflects our commitment to fostering an open and scalable ecosystem for next-generation AI and high-performance computing&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;HPC and AI workload demands are unique and evolving rapidly&comma; and hyperscalers architecting the most advanced custom AI systems rely on Cadence to deliver enabling technology from data centers to the edge&comma;” said Boyd Phelps&comma; senior vice president and general manager of the Silicon Solutions Group at Cadence&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Our comprehensive IP portfolio&comma; including design IP&comma; chiplet infrastructure&comma; subsystems and other critical IP&comma; complements the NVIDIA NVLink ecosystem&comma; accelerating the delivery of AI factories that are powerful&comma; energy-efficient and production-ready at scale&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">NVLink Fusion also enables AI innovators like Fujitsu and Qualcomm Technologies to each couple their custom CPUs with NVIDIA GPUs in a rack-scale architecture to boost AI performance&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Combining Fujitsu’s advanced CPU technology with NVIDIA’s full-stack AI infrastructure delivers new levels of performance&comma;” said Vivek Mahajan&comma; CTO at Fujitsu&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Fujitsu’s next-generation processor&comma; FUJITSU-MONAKA&comma; is a 2-nanometer&comma; Arm-based CPU aiming to achieve extreme power efficiency&period; Directly connecting our technologies to NVIDIA’s architecture marks a monumental step forward in our vision to drive the evolution of AI through world-leading computing technology — paving the way for a new class of scalable&comma; sovereign and sustainable AI systems&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Qualcomm Technologies’ advanced custom CPU technology with NVIDIA’s full-stack AI platform brings powerful&comma; efficient intelligence to data center infrastructure&comma;” said Cristiano Amon&comma; president and CEO of Qualcomm Technologies&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;With the ability to connect our custom processors to NVIDIA’s rack-scale architecture&comma; we’re advancing our vision of high-performance&comma; energy-efficient computing to the data center&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;"><b><strong>NVIDIA NVLink Demonstrates Industry-Proven Scale<&sol;strong><&sol;b><br &sol;>&NewLine;To maximize AI factory throughput and performance in the most power-efficient way&comma; the fifth-generation NVIDIA NVLink platform includes <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;nvidia&period;com&sol;en-us&sol;data-center&sol;gb200-nvl72&sol;"><u>NVIDIA GB200 NVL72<&sol;u><&sol;a> and <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;nvidia&period;com&sol;en-us&sol;data-center&sol;gb300-nvl72&sol;"><u>GB300 NVL72<&sol;u><&sol;a>&comma; compute-dense racks that provide a total bandwidth of 1&period;8 TB&sol;s per GPU — 14x faster than PCIe Gen5&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Leading hyperscalers are already deploying NVIDIA NVLink full-rack solutions and can speed time to availability by standardizing their heterogenous silicon data centers on the NVIDIA rack architecture with NVLink Fusion&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;"><b><strong>Software Crafted for AI Factories<&sol;strong><&sol;b><br &sol;>&NewLine;AI factories connected with NVIDIA NVLink Fusion are powered by <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;nvidia&period;com&sol;en-us&sol;data-center&sol;mission-control&sol;"><u>NVIDIA Mission Control<&sol;u><&sol;a>™&comma; a unified operations and orchestration software platform that automates the complex management of AI data centers and workloads&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">NVIDIA Mission Control enhances every aspect of AI factory operations — from configuring deployments to validating infrastructure to orchestrating mission-critical workloads — to help enterprises get frontier models up and running faster&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;"><b><strong>Availability<&sol;strong><&sol;b><br &sol;>&NewLine;NVIDIA NVLink Fusion silicon design services and solutions are available now from MediaTek&comma; Marvell&comma; Alchip&comma; Astera Labs&comma; Synopsys and Cadence&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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