The rapid breakout of Artificial Intelligence is driving business opportunities across verticals – but there’s one sector for which AI presents some formidable challenges, and that’s the datacenter industry itself.

The data-intensive IT resources required by AI workloads make unprecedented demands on datacenter facilities’ physical infrastructure and switching fabrics. It’s predicted that AI training models will grow in complexity by 1,000 times over the next three years – each model has billions of dense parameters, and might require tens of thousands of GPUs running for weeks on end.

Marvell believes AI has fundamentally changed the network switching landscape. Its Teralynx 10 51.2 Tbps Ethernet switch has been designed to meet this emerging requirement for accelerated infrastructure. This advanced switching platform gives Marvell a lead in its market, but also prompts some profound questions for the company and its customers.

In this Hot Seat interview from The Next Platform, Nick Kucharewski, Senior VP & General Manager, Network Switching Business Unit at Marvell will explain how, with its 51.2 Tbps Ethernet switch architecture, Marvell is plotting the industry roadmap for AI cloud switching.