Upscale AI partners with Nvidia while building rival scale-up switch
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Upscale AI says its SkyHammer scale-up switch ASIC will deliver 115.2 Tb/sec aggregate bandwidth and support up to 576 accelerators in a single networking tier, as a competitor to Nvidia's NVSwitch.
The company is also partnering with Nvidia on NVLink Fusion, and a fact record describes Upscale AI as a supplier of Nvidia Spectrum-X switches for scale-out AI cluster networking.
The Next Platform reports that Upscale AI has raised $500 million in total funding at a $2 billion valuation.
Written by AI from the articles below · updated Oct 9, 6:04 PM ET
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- The Next PlatformNewsUpscale AI unveils SkyHammer scale-up switch ASIC to compete with Nvidia NVLink
AIUpscale AI says its SkyHammer scale-up switch ASIC will deliver an aggregate bandwidth of 115.2 Tb/sec and support up to 576 accelerators in a single networking tier. The company is partnering with Nvidia on NVLink Fusion while also developing an alternative to Nvidia's NVSwitch for AI clusters. The article notes that Upscale AI has raised $500 million in total funding and has a $2 billion valuation.
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