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AMD fully endorsing UALink; hyperscalers issuing RFPs, with majority of engagements at 200G per lane
“AMD recently fully endorsed UALink as its scale-up networking architecture of choice for all future generations of its rack-scale solutions... And I will also say that majority of these engagements are at 200 gigabit per second per lane rate and not at the 128.”
Why it matters
Confirms UALink is gaining real commercial traction with hyperscaler RFPs and 200G/lane as the dominant speed, sharpening the timeline for scale-up interconnect competition against NVIDIA NVLink and Broadcom Ethernet-based approaches.
Investment implication
Positive for ALAB's 2027 UALink product roadmap; frames a competitive threat vector for Broadcom's Tomahawk Ultra scale-up Ethernet strategy and reinforces the multi-vendor open-ecosystem shift away from proprietary fabrics.