Alphawave Semi Joins UALink™ Consortium to Accelerate High-Speed AI
Connections
London, United Kingdom, and Toronto, Canada - December 4, 2024
- Alphawave Semi (LSE: AWE), a global leader in high-speed connectivity and compute silicon
for the world's technology infrastructure, has joined the newly
formed Ultra Accelerator Link Consortium™ (UALink™).
With the emergence of accelerated
compute infrastructure to enable AI workloads spanning compute,
training and inference, new purpose-built scale-up networks are
required to scale data center infrastructure to meet the
specialized compute demands that general-purpose systems are
falling short to meet.
UALink is an open industry
standardized fabric interconnect for accelerator-to-accelerator
communication designed to deliver low-latency and high-bandwidth
interface to meet the needs of scale-up AI infrastructure,
facilitating the coherency of operations between large nodes of AI
accelerators.
The interface pools up to 1,024 XPUs
into a single node with a latency of less than 100 ns pin-to-pin
and supports data transfer at up to 224 Gbps per lane. By
optimizing the data and transaction layers, UALink significantly
reduces die area, power and overhead compared to other
solutions.
The Consortium membership unites
expertise from hyperscalers, system OEMs, accelerator and switch
developers; Alphawave Semi plans on bringing its leadership in
connectivity subsystems and chiplets to the consortium. The UALink
Consortium was incorporated in October 2024 by a coalition of
leading AI technology companies, including AMD, Amazon Web
Services, Cisco, Google, HPE, Intel, Meta and Microsoft.
Letizia Giuliano, Alphawave Semi's
VP of IP Product Marketing said "Alphawave Semi is at the forefront
of connectivity for AI and HPC, and by working with the UALink
Consortium we will deliver our industry leading performance in
connectivity solutions for timely, practical solutions to our
customers to form the backbone of AI infrastructure."
The UALink 1.0 specification will be
available in Q1 2025.
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For more information on the UALink
Consortium visit https://ualinkconsortium.org.
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About Alphawave Semi
Alphawave Semi is a global leader in
high-speed connectivity and compute silicon for the world's
technology infrastructure. Faced with the exponential growth of
data, Alphawave Semi's technology services a critical need:
enabling data to travel faster, more reliably, and with higher
performance at lower power. We are a vertically integrated
semiconductor company, and our IP, custom silicon, and connectivity
products are deployed by global tier-one customers in data centres,
compute, networking, AI, 6G/5G, autonomous vehicles, and storage.
Founded in 2017 by an expert technical team with a proven track
record in licensing semiconductor IP, our mission is to accelerate
the critical data infrastructure at the heart of our digital world.
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