Broadcom Ships Jericho4 Chips for Data Center Networking

<p><strong>PALO ALTO<&sol;strong> &&num;8212&semi; Broadcom Inc&period; is now shipping the Jericho4 ethernet fabric router — a purpose-built platform for the next generation of distributed AI infrastructure&period; Designed to interconnect over one million XPUs across multiple data centers&comma; Jericho4 breaks through traditional scaling limits with unmatched bandwidth&comma; security&comma; and lossless performance&period; With the Tomahawk 6&comma; Tomahawk Ultra and Jericho4&comma; Broadcom offers a complete networking portfolio for HPC and AI&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As AI models grow in size and complexity&comma; the infrastructure requirements exceed the power and physical limits of a single data center&period; Distributing XPUs across multiple facilities — each provisioned with tens to hundreds of megawatts of power — requires a new class of router&comma; optimized for very high-bandwidth&comma; secure and lossless transport across regional distances&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The Jericho4 family is engineered to extend AI-scale Ethernet fabrics beyond individual data centers&comma; supporting congestion-free RoCE and 3&period;2 Tbps HyperPort for unprecedented interconnect efficiency&comma;” said Ram Velaga&comma; senior vice president and general manager of Broadcom’s Core Switching Group&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Scale Up Ethernet &lpar;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;globenewswire&period;com&sol;Tracker&quest;data&equals;p69fDRsj&lowbar;3XBEuNtGQ1fRZokeo6C2JxnU1wS6amuZfLFJgMwqv2Tch1SmlcyjJ3MI&lowbar;z861RFxEhIsaGEvP5DLOf&lowbar;4uTO4q79tMAQduLJCEViUC35nKKvawP9rq7gTmq-" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener">SUE<&sol;a>&rpar;&comma; Tomahawk Ultra&comma; Tomahawk 6&comma; and Jericho4 all play a very important role in enabling large scale distributed computing systems within a rack&comma; across racks&comma; and across data centers in an open and interoperable way&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A single Jericho4 system scales to 36&comma;000 HyperPorts&comma; each operating at 3&period;2 Tb&sol;s&comma; with deep buffering&comma; line-rate MACsec&comma; and RoCE transport over 100km&plus; distances&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Broadcom’s 3&period;2T HyperPort technology consolidates four 800GE links into a single logical port — eliminating load balancing inefficiencies&comma; boosting utilization by up to 70&percnt;&comma; and streamlining traffic flow across large fabrics&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Thanks to deep buffering and intelligent congestion control&comma; Jericho4 ensures lossless RoCE across 100km&plus; enabling truly distributed AI infrastructure unconstrained by power and space limitations at a single location&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Jericho4 supports MACsec encryption on every port at full speed to protect data moving between data centers&comma; delivering strong security without compromising performance — even at the highest traffic loads&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Manufactured on a 3nm process&comma; Jericho4 features Broadcom’s advanced 200G PAM4 SerDes with industry-leading reach&period; This eliminates the need for extra components like retimers&comma; resulting in lower power usage&comma; reduced cost&comma; and higher system reliability&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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