Connecting the dots: Thor Ultra's distinction lies not in raw throughput but in how it operationalizes open Ethernet for the AI era. By adhering to the UEC specification, it gives data center ...

Network infrastructure has become a performance constraint in large-scale AI training, and Broadcom has spent the past three years building an AI networking portfolio that aims to solve this problem.

Broadcom unveiled Thor Ultra, an 800G network interface card (NIC) capable of connecting more than 100,000 XPUs to large-scale AI clusters. The NIC is Broadcom's answer to scaling bottlenecks, acting ...