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Broadcom Chip to Help Power AI by Linking Up Smaller Data Centers
The age of ever-bigger AI data centers is leaving cloud companies with a question: What do with older, smaller facilities?
Broadcom Inc. is offering a possible answer, at least for operations located with some proximity. A new version of its Jericho networking chip announced Monday can transfer larger volumes of data at higher speeds. That means customers can link up several smaller data centers to create one big system for developing or running AI models, said Ram Velaga, senior vice president and general manager of the company's core switching group.
