Connecting the components of AI systems
Astera Labs develops connectivity silicon and accompanying software for AI and cloud infrastructure. Its products address the links among CPUs, accelerators, network interfaces and storage. That role matters because an accelerator depends on moving data through the rest of its system. [1]
Two different fabric-switch roles
The October 2024 Scorpio introduction distinguished P-Series switches for mixed head-node PCIe traffic from X-Series designs for GPU clustering. COSMOS adds telemetry and diagnostics for observing those connections. These are interconnect products, rather than another GPU architecture. [1]
Preproduction quantities have a specific meaning
The announcement said head-node PCIe 6 switches were shipping in preproduction quantities. That establishes physical customer availability at that stage, without proving volume deployment of every product on the roadmap or independently confirming the company’s efficiency claims. [1]