Tech CEOs proclaiming unfeasibly large numbers at the launch of a new product is par for the course in the industry, and it's common practice to take them with a pinch of salt until someone's tested them. Even so, Nvidia's Jen-Hsun Huang was perhaps hoping for a bigger reaction at Computex when he claimed that one spine of its new NVLink Fusion system "moves more traffic than the entire Internet."
NVLink is Nvidia's processor interconnect technology, mostly used in big data centers, packed full of CPUs and GPUs. Its latest version, NVLink Fusion, was announced at this year's Computex event and during the presentation, Huang hauled an NVLink spine onto the table. Think of this as a tower of cables and controllers that allows 72 massive GPUs to communicate and share data.
