NVIDIA OPENS UP SPEEDY NVLINK INTERCONNECT TO CUSTOM CPUS, ASICS

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Nvidia's NVLink Fusion, introduced at Computex this week, opens the NVLink interconnect tech to non-Nvidia-designed accelerators. NVLink enables multiple GPUs in a system or rack to behave like a single accelerator with shared compute and memory resources. The technology will be offered in two configurations: the first will be for connecting custom CPUs to Nvidia GPUs, and the second involves using NVLink to connect Grace and Vera CPUs to non-Nvidia accelerators. This should theoretically open up the possibility of superchip-style compute assemblies that feature any combination of CPUs and GPUs as long as Nvidia technology is involved.