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The Third Time Will Be The Charm For Broadcom Switch Co-Packaged Optics

October 17, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

If Broadcom says that co-packaged optics is ready for prime time and can compete with other ways of linking switch ASICs to fiber optic cables, then it is very unlikely that Broadcom is wrong. …

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How Long Before Broadcom Makes More AI Compute Engines Than Nvidia?

December 13, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan 4

Chip maker and enterprise software player Broadcom announced its financial results for the final quarter of its fiscal 2024 today, which ended on November third, and all we kept thinking about as chief executive officer Hock Tan went over the numbers was the question in the title above. …

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Arista Banks On The AI Network Double Whammy

August 21, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

Current AI training and some AI inference clusters have two networks. …

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Like A Drumbeat, Broadcom Doubles Ethernet Bandwidth With “Tomahawk 5”

August 16, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

If there is anything that hyperscalers and cloud builders value more than anything else, it is regularity and predictability. …

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