January 19, 2025
Apple Joins UALink Consortium Board

Apple Joins UALink Consortium Board

Posted January 14, 2025 at 5:24pm by iClarified
Apple has officially joined the Board of the Ultra Accelerator Link Consortium (UALink), alongside Alibaba Cloud Computing and Synopsys. They join existing board members, including AMD, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Astera Labs, Cisco, Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Intel, Meta, and Microsoft.

The UALink Consortium is an open industry standards group formed to develop interconnect technical specifications that enable direct load, store, and atomic operations between AI accelerators (e.g., GPUs). Their focus is to facilitate low-latency, high-bandwidth fabric for hundreds of accelerators in a pod and to support simple load and store semantics with software coherency. The UALink 1.0 Specification will leverage the expertise of its Promoter Members, who have developed and deployed a broad range of accelerators and switches.

"UALink shows great promise in addressing connectivity challenges and creating new opportunities for expanding AI capabilities and demands," said Becky Loop, Director of Platform Architecture at Apple. "Apple has a long history of pioneering and collaborating on innovations that drive our industry forward, and we're excited to join the UALink Board of Directors."


"We are pleased to welcome Alibaba, Apple and Synopsys to the UALink Consortium Board of Directors," said Kurtis Bowman, UALink Consortium Board Chair. "Since our incorporation, the Consortium has grown to more than 65 total members, spanning Cloud, Silicon and IP Providers, Software Companies, System OEMs and others. The continued support for the Consortium will help accelerate adoption of this key industry standard, defining the next-generation interconnect for AI workloads."

Anticipated for release in the first quarter of 2025, the UALink 1.0 Specification will enable up to 200Gbps per lane scale-up connections for up to 1,024 accelerators within an AI pod.

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