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May202024
Broadcom's Thor 2 looks to hammer top spot in AI NICs
Monday, May 20, 2024 at 4:34PM Broadcom has announced the availability of network interface cards (NICs) for large-scale artificial intelligence (AI) computers.
Jas Tremblay
The NIC cards are using Broadcom's Thor 2 chip which started sampling in 2023 and is now in volume production.
Jas Tremblay, vice president and general manager of the data center solutions group at Broadcom, says the Thor 2 is the industry's first 400 gigabit Ethernet (GbE) NIC device to be implemented in a 5nm CMOS process.
"It [the design] gives customers choices and freedom when they're building their AI systems such that they can use different NICs with different [Ethernet] switches," says Tremblay.
