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Nvidia puts $3.2B into optical fiber as copper runs out of bandwidth
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Nvidia is investing $3.2 billion in Corning for three new US optical fiber plants because copper has run out of bandwidth, while OpenAI, AMD, Broadcom, Intel, Microsoft and Nvidia jointly open-sourced a multipath protocol keeping GPUs synchronized across cluster failures.
Reported metric: $3.2B
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