Industry’s First PCIe 6 Switch

A fabric switch portfolio includes the first PCIe 6 switch for AI, improving data flow, reliability, and scalability for cloud AI systems.

Astera Labs has introduced a line of fabric switches, including the first PCIe 6 switch designed for AI workloads in computing environments. The Scorpio Smart Fabric Switch portfolio is built to optimize AI dataflows, ensuring performance per watt, reliability, and cloud deployment while reducing time-to-market and costs. The portfolio includes two product lines, Scorpio P-Series and Scorpio X-Series.

Scorpio Smart Fabric Switches are part of Astera Labs’ Intelligent Connectivity Platform and integrate with the COnnectivity System Management and Optimization Software (COSMOS) suite. This combination provides a connectivity backbone with data centre observability, security, and fleet management. Scorpio offers insights into the health of computing platforms, ensuring availability and uptime.

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Tested with PCIe hosts and endpoints in Astera Labs’ Cloud-Scale Interop Lab and customer platforms, Scorpio is now shipping in pre-production quantities for head-node PCIe 6 connectivity. It enables AI platform deployment with plug-and-play interoperability, diagnostics, telemetry, and design support.

Jitendra Mohan, Chief Executive Officer of Astera Labs, said, “Hyperscalers are deploying highly specialized AI platforms at an unprecedented pace, scale, and complexity. Our new Scorpio Smart Fabric Switch portfolio delivers maximum system utilization and uptime for two specific AI use cases – scale-out PCIe connectivity with Scorpio P-Series and back-end, scale-up GPU clustering with Scorpio X-Series. Scorpio offers energy-efficient fabric solutions with predictable, secure, and high-performance data flows and extensive fleet management capabilities for accelerated AI infrastructure deployments at the cloud scale.”

Patrick Moorhead, Founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Chief Analyst of Moor Insights & Strategy, said, “Hyperscalers and AI platform providers developing systems for training and inferencing workloads have traditionally used PCIe switches that were initially designed for general purpose and storage applications. These switches can be complex, consume high power, and require longer system development cycles, making them challenging for AI platforms. With its introduction of the Scorpio Smart Fabric Switch portfolio, Astera Labs is focused on the industry’s need for a more performant, efficient fabric solution that’s purpose-built to meet the specific requirements of AI training and inference workloads in the cloud.”

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