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AMD's Helios MI455X AI platform breaks cover, initial systems use UALink-over-Ethernet interconnects — AMD's Vera Rubin rival surfaces, but the downsides of Ethernet could hamstring performance

… But there is a major downside with using Ethernet, even with the UALink protocol on top: Ethernet was originally designed as a general-purpose networking technology; it was never designed to scale up AI accelerators. …

Jun 4, 2026 · Anton Shilov
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Astera Labs showcases 320-lane PCIe 6.0 switch for vendor-agnostic scaling in data centers — up to 80 accelerators can be scaled up using PCIe alone

… In such cases, traditional switching architectures either require repeated data transmissions or slow multicast-group reconfiguration, whereas Hypercast is designed to handle these communication patterns directly in hardware, reduce GPU networking overhead, and improve accelerator efficiency, Aster… …

Jun 3, 2026 · Anton Shilov