Nvidia opens NVLink to competitive processors

Until now, NVLink has been limited to Nvidia GPUs and CPUs, but with NVLink Fusion, non-Nvidia semi-custom accelerators will be able to use it. Nvidia says there will be two configurations for NVLink Fusion: for connecting custom CPUs to Nvidia GPUs and for connecting Nvidia’s Grace and future CPUs to non-Nvidia accelerators.

“This gives customers more choice and flexibility, while expanding the ecosystem and creating new opportunities for innovation with Nvidia at the center,” said Dion Harris, senior director of HPC, Cloud, and AI at Nvidia on a pre briefing Computext conference call with journalists.

“Nvidia ecosystem brings together leading partners to help hyperscalers deploy custom scale up computing solutions quickly and efficiently on our platform, from custom ASIC designs and NVLink fusion integrations … By combining this broad partner network with Nvidia technology, NVLink fusion, adopters can accelerate their time to market for AI factories,” he added.