Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) on Friday unveiled its Spectrum-XGS Ethernet in an effort to provide a boost to data centers and artificial intelligence super factories.
Shares rose 1.7% in late morning trading.
Data centers need to be able to scale beyond their respective buildings, and with the Spectrum-XGS Ethernet platform, they can do just that, Nvidia said. It will serve as a “third pillar” of AI computing going beyond scaling up and out, with the tech giant saying it is designed for extending the “extreme performance and scale” needed by AI super factories.
“The AI industrial revolution is here, and giant-scale AI factories are the essential infrastructure,” said Nvidia CEO and founder Jensen Huang in a statement. “With NVIDIA Spectrum-XGS Ethernet, we add scale-across to scale-up and scale-out capabilities to link data centers across cities, nations and continents into vast, giga-scale AI super-factories.”
The product is already integrated into the Spectrum-X platform and will automatically adjusted the network to the distance between data centers. It can also automatically control distance congestion control, latency and telemetry. It nearly doubles the performance of Nvidia’s Collective Communications Library, the company added.
Hyperscalers such as CoreWeave (CRWV) are already trying it out, with CoreWeave among the first to connect its data centers to Spectrum-XGS Ethernet.
Nvidia is set to report its next quarterly results after the close of trading on Aug. 27. A consensus of analysts expect the company to earn $1.01 per share on $46B in revenue.