Semiconductor firm Broadcom on Tuesday announced the release of its latest Ethernet switch, Tomahawk Ultra, engineered to handle high-performance computing and artificial intelligence workloads. Meanwhile, Broadcom stock is trading in record-high territory.
The Tomahawk Ultra delivers industry-leading ultra-low latency, massive throughput, and lossless networking, Broadcom said in a news release.
The new switch is optimized for the tightly coupled, low-latency communication patterns found in both high-performance computing systems and AI clusters.
The Tomahawk Ultra and recently released Tomahawk 6 switch form the foundation of a unified Ethernet architecture, Broadcom said. They enable both scale-up and scale-out systems for data centers running AI applications.
"Demonstrating that open-standards Ethernet can now deliver sub-microsecond switching, lossless transport, and on-chip collectives marks a pivotal step toward meeting those demands of an AI scale up stack — projected to be double-digit billions in a few years," Kunjan Sobhani, lead semiconductor analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, said in a statement.
On the stock market today, Broadcom stock rose 1.9% to close at 280.94. In intraday trading Tuesday, Broadcom hit a record high of 283.36.
Broadcom stock is on two IBD lists: Leaderboard and Tech Leaders.
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