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Ultra Ethernet / UALink consortia

Open interconnect standards challenging InfiniBand & NVLink

The Ultra Ethernet Consortium (scale-out) and UALink (scale-up, backed by AMD, Broadcom, Google, Microsoft, Meta) are the industry's coordinated 2025 effort to build open alternatives to NVIDIA's InfiniBand and NVLink lock-in. Their success determines whether non-NVIDIA clusters can compete at scale.

Scale-up

UALink 1.0

Backers

AMD, Broadcom, hyperscalers

How it fits the stack

Ultra Ethernet / UALink consortia with what it depends on (above) and what it feeds (below). The figure renders as a crawlable diagram and upgrades to an interactive 3D graph as it scrolls into view.

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Ultra Ethernet / UALink consortia in the AI stack. Ultra Ethernet / UALink consortia with its immediate upstream dependencies (top) and downstream dependents (bottom) in the AI value chain. Hover a node in 3D, or read the full relationships below.

Graph data (text) — 6 entities, 6 relationships
  • Ultra Ethernet / UALink consortiasuppliesBroadcom
  • Arista NetworksusesUltra Ethernet / UALink consortia
  • Ultra Ethernet / UALink consortiapartners withAMD
  • Ultra Ethernet / UALink consortiapartners withBroadcom
  • Ultra Ethernet / UALink consortiacompetes withInfiniBand (NVIDIA Quantum)
  • Ultra Ethernet / UALink consortiacompetes withNVLink / NVSwitch