Alibaba, Apple and Synopsys Join Ultra Accelerator Link Consortium Board

 Beaverton, Ore. – Jan. 14, 2025 – The Ultra Accelerator Link Consortium, developer of the UALink for AI clusters, has announced the expansion of its board of directors with the election of Alibaba Cloud Computing Ltd., Apple Inc., and Synopsys Inc. UALink said the new board members will share their industry knowledge for development and […]

HPC News Bytes: The Next New Big Thing in AI?, UALink and Optical I/O, Arm vs. Qualcomm

A happy holiday season to you! As we enter Christmas week, here’s a quick (6:14) run-through of  recent news from the world of HPC-AI, including: long thinking AI – the next new big thing?, UALink and optical I/O – a possible next new big thing in interconnects, Arm vs. Qualcomm ….

Photonic Interconnect: Lightmatter Joins UALink Consortium

Dec. 18, 2024, MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. –Photonic interconnect company Lightmatter has joined the Ultra Accelerator Link Consortium (UALink), an industry initiative focused on creating high-speed, low-latency open interconnect standards for scale-up AI systems. As a Contributor member, Lightmatter will apply its Passage technology—a 3D-stacked photonic engine—for accelerator-to-accelerator communication, enabling unprecedented performance in AI clusters. The UALink […]

Ultra Accelerator Link Consortium Incorporates

Beaverton, Ore. – October 29, 2024 – The Ultra Accelerator Link (UALink) Consortium, led by board members from AMD, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Astera Labs, Cisco, Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Intel, Meta and Microsoft, have announced the incorporation of the consortium and are extending an invitation for membership to the community. The UALink Promoter […]