Tech giants form industry group to develop AI accelerator chips

SAN FRANCISCO, May 30 (Xinhua) -- Intel, Google, Microsoft, Meta and other tech giants announced on Thursday they are establishing a new industry group, the Ultra Accelerator Link (UALink) Promoter Group, to guide the development of the components that link together AI accelerator chips in data centers.

The UALink Promoter Group also counts AMD, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Broadcom and Cisco among its members. The group is proposing a new industry standard to connect the AI accelerator chips within a growing number of servers.