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Chips Wednesday, May 6, 2026 at 11:46 AM

NVIDIA Partners with Corning on Massive Optical Fiber Deal for AI Clusters

NVIDIA and Corning announced a large-scale optical fiber partnership aimed at supporting gigascale AI infrastructure, with potential implications for datacenter interconnect capacity.

The deal underscores the competitive focus on reliable, high-bandwidth fabric for training and inference clusters.

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