Considering the scale and influence of the companies involved right out of the gate, it’s a safe bet UALink will arrive in-market as quickly as possible.
Industry heavyweights AMD, Broadcom, Cisco, Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Intel, Meta and Microsoft have joined forces to form the Ultra Accelerator Link Promoter Group and UALink Consortium to co-develop a new, open industry standard interconnect designed for scale-up systems in next-generation data centers for AI and Machine Learning, HPC, and Cloud applications.
The new UALink (Ultra Accelerator Link) is essentially a high-performance, low-latency communications interconnect for linking AI accelerators, akin to NVIDIA’s NVLink technology. NVLink not only allows NVIDIA to interconnect its GPUs together within a system, but to also link many systems together via its NVSwitch devices for massive scale-up installations, like DGX SuperPODS, etc.
