… As far as we know, this Ethernet spine not use the Spectrum-6 ASICs with co-packaged optics, but it could us optics in the spine and copper in the chip-to-chip spine connectors coming off the Groq chips. …
… But in a quantum computer, you can’t wait around because your qubits might decohere or something like that, so all this stuff has to be done lightning fast and Guppy does all this.” Guppy also will be used by Quantinuum in Helios and future systems – the company’s roadmap shows “Sol” for 2027 and “… …
… If the spending is doubling, the compute capacity of the gear is also probably doubling to quadrupling, depending on the computing precision used, as AWS moves through the Nvidia roadmap and its own Trainium roadmap. …
… Intel could always have tried an “acquihire” deal to get control of SambaNova, like Nvidia did with Groq, which left a hollow cloud shell and no roadmap for future products while absorbing the bulk of the intellectual property and human team behind Groq. …