Broadcom launches new Tomahawk Ultra networking chip in AI battle against Nvidia

Broadcom launches new Tomahawk Ultra networking chip in AI battle against Nvidia

Broadcom's chip unit unveiled a new networking processor that aims to speed artificial intelligence data crunching, which requires stringing together hundreds of chips that work together.

Broadcom Launches New Tomahawk Ultra Networking Chip in AI Battle Against Nvidia

Broadcom Debuts Innovative Ethernet Switch for AI and HPC - HostingJournalist.com

Broadcom, a provider of infrastructure software solutions and semiconductors, has announced the delivery of the Tomahawk Ultra, a revolutionary Ethernet switch. With its industry-leading ultra-low latency, huge throughput, and lossless networking, Tomahawk Ultra was designed to revolutionize the Ethernet switch for high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence applications.Ram Velaga, Senior Vice President and General Manager of B…

Broadcom ships Tomahawk Ultra Ethernet switch for HPC and AI

Broadcom has begun shipping its latest Ethernet switch, Tomahawk Ultra, which targets improvements in high-performance computing (HPC) and AI workloads. According to Broadcom, Tomahawk Ultra achieves a switch latency of 250 nanoseconds at a full 51.2 terabits per second of throughput. It supports line-rate switching for packets as small as 64 bytes and can handle up to 77 billion packets per second. The switch optimises Ethernet headers by reduc…

Broadcom launches Tomahawk Ultra AI networking chip built on TSMC's 5nm process to challenge Nvidia

Broadcom has launched its latest Tomahawk Ultra Ethernet switch chip, fabricated using TSMC's 5nm process, targeting high-performance AI infrastructure with a design aimed squarely at challenging Nvidia's dominance in accelerator interconnects.

Broadcom Aims to Reimagine the Ethernet Switch for HPC and AI

Announced today, the new device challenges the assumption that Ethernet can't support small packet sizes or optimized transport paths.