Claims: Astera speaks softly and carries a big switch

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1. title: Astera speaks softly and carries a big switch (alleges; supported) Source
2. url: https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/05/05/astera-speaks-softly-and-carries-a-big-switch/5219859 (alleges; supported) Source
3. summary: Astera Labs unveiled an alternative to Nvidia's NVSwitch for building rack-scale AI systems on Tuesday, claiming it will work with nearly any accelerator. The AI fabric switch, codenamed Scorpio X, crams 320 lanes of PCIe 6.0 connectivity into a single ASIC with 5.12 TB/s of bidirectional bandwidth. Historically, PCIe switches have been used in a variety of applications including scale-out compute fabrics. CPUs alone either didn't offer enough or fast enough lanes for all the GPUs, NICs, and sto… (alleges; supported) Source
4. published: Tue, 05 May 2026 22:05:07 +0200 (alleges; supported) Source