Chip designs are busting out beyond the reticle limits of lithography machines, making chiplets and high-bandwidth, in-package die-to-die interconnects inevitable. …
Speaking metaphorically, the blast area of a datacenter should only be so large, for mechanical as well as technical reasons, in order to mitigate the risk of a failure taking out too many machines. …
Just like every kind of compute job cannot be handled by a single type of microprocessor, the diversity of networking tasks in the datacenters of the world require a variety of different switch and router ASICs to best manage those tasks. …
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