Broadcom Inc., a global leader in semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions, announced Thor Ultra, the industry’s first 800G AI Ethernet Network Interface Card (NIC), capable of interconnecting hundreds of thousands of XPUs to drive trillion-parameter AI workloads. By adopting the open Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC) specification, Thor Ultra gives customers the ability to scale AI workloads with unparalleled performance, and efficiency in an open ecosystem.
Thor Ultra delivers on the vision of Ultra Ethernet Consortium for modernizing RDMA for large AI clusters. Designed from the ground up, Thor Ultra is the industry’s first 800G Ethernet NIC and is fully feature compliant with UEC specification. We are grateful to our customers for their partnership and to our exceptional engineering team for the product innovation.