Optical DSP Growth in 800 Gb/s and 1.6 Tb/s Ramps

NVIDIA’s Blackwell portfolio spans multiple SKUs and form factors, but the flagship is the vertically integrated DGX GB200 NVL72: a single rack with 72 GPUs, 36 CPUs, 18 NVSwitches, 72 InfiniBand NICs (back-end scale-out), and 36 BlueField-3 Ethernet NICs (front-end). The NVLink 5 fabric provides ~900 GB/s per GPU over copper with ~5,184 direct-drive cables (≈5,000), eliminating optical power on...

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