Nvidia has announced the Spectrum-X and Quantum-X silicon photonics networking switches, which they claim lower power consumption and improve deployment speeds.

“AI factories are a new class of data centers with extreme scale, and networking infrastructure must be reinvented to keep pace,” Huang said. “By integrating silicon photonics directly into switches, Nvidia is shattering the old limitations of hyperscale and enterprise networks and opening the gate to million-GPU AI factories.”