Intelligent Connectivity Platform

The rapid growth in AI and accelerated pace of AI platform design cycles is driving the need for exponential compute at cloud-scale, and purpose-built connectivity solutions are required to unlock the full potential of cloud and AI infrastructure.

Driven by the growth of AI workloads at scale, Astera Labs devised the innovative concept of the Intelligent Connectivity Platform, allowing holistic design with monitoring and tracking capabilities for long-term health and performance of connectivity infrastructure.

Astera Labs’ Intelligent Connectivity Platform is comprised of:

  1. High-speed connectivity integrated circuits (ICs), modules, and boards
  2. COSMOS: Connectivity System Management and Optimization Software

Differentiators:

The Intelligent Connectivity Platform provides hyperscaler customers with the ability to deploy and operate high-performance AI and cloud infrastructure, addressing an increasingly diverse set of requirements.

  • Patented software-defined IC architecture with distributed microcontrollers and sensors delivers functionality, diagnostics and telemetry
  • Software and hardware combination delivers a smart connectivity backbone that is scalable and customizable
  • Easily extensible to integrate new features and solutions
  • Robust reliability, security, quality-of-service, and software management capabilities facilitate deployment at scale
  • Real-time link and device monitoring for fleet health management and improved user experience

Key Customer Benefits

Superior Performance

Gain high bandwidth and low latency connectivity at cloud-scale, enabling the next generation of cloud infrastructure critical for data-centric AI workloads.  

Accelerated Time-to-Market

Leverage pre-validated and interoperable solutions and our robust partner ecosystem for seamless system integration and faster, more reliable deployment.

Lower Total Cost of Ownership

Increase utilization of expensive GPUs and AI accelerators, unlock scalable memory expansion, and provide greater system uptime for hyperscalers.

Building the Case for UALink™: A Dedicated Scale-Up Memory Semantic Fabric

Understanding the LandscapeAs AI models continue to rapidly evolve and drive a need for higher FLOPs and larger memory footprints, AI clusters will need to continue to grow to keep up. As the AI clusters rapidly scale in size from 25,000 GPUs per cluster[1] to 100,000 GPUs to 200,000 GPUs[2], not only is there a need to provide the connectivity between the GPUs in these clusters, but…

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Driving AI and Cloud Innovation: How Astera Labs is Expanding its Market Opportunity

The year 2024 has been extremely exciting for Astera Labs with multiple big milestones including a successful IPO in March and the expansion of our Intelligent Connectivity Platform with the introduction of our Scorpio Smart Fabric Switch family. The company continues to scale aggressively with the goal of becoming the premier provider of purpose-built connectivity solutions into the AI and…

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Overcome Next-Gen AI Infrastructure Challenges with Scorpio Smart Fabric Switches

In today’s rapidly evolving AI landscape, hyperscale data centers are under immense pressure to keep up with the processing demands for AI data flows that power Generative AI applications. AI models are moving at rapid pace and scale with four major LLMs on track for release in Q4, 2024 while models, such as Gemini 1.5 Pro-002, are weighing in at 1.5 trillion parameters with others to follow…

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Astera Labs Introduces New Portfolio of Fabric Switches Purpose-Built for AI Infrastructure at Cloud-Scale

Shipping in pre-production quantities, Scorpio Smart Fabric Switches deliver maximum system utilization and uptime for scale-out PCIe 6 connectivity and scale-up GPU clustering in AI serversSANTA CLARA, CA, U.S. – October 8, 2024 – Astera Labs, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALAB), a global leader in semiconductor-based connectivity solutions for AI and cloud infrastructure, today announced a new…

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Astera Labs Announces Conference Call to Review Third Quarter 2024 Financial Results

SANTA CLARA, CA, U.S. – Oct. 2, 2024 – Astera Labs, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALAB), a global leader in semiconductor-based connectivity solutions for AI and cloud infrastructure, today announced that it will release its financial results for the third quarter 2024 after the close of market on Monday, Nov. 4, 2024. Astera Labs will host a corresponding conference call at 1:30 p.m. Pacific…

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Astera Labs Opens New R&D Hub in Bengaluru to Drive AI and Cloud Innovation

Dr. Shivananda Koteshwar to lead the company’s India operations and spearhead development of innovative connectivity solutions for AI and cloud infrastructureSANTA CLARA, CA, U.S. – September 11, 2024 – Astera Labs, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALAB), a global leader in semiconductor-based connectivity solutions for AI and cloud infrastructure, today announced the official opening of its…

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Astera Labs to Participate in the Deutsche Bank 2024 Technology Conference

SANTA CLARA, Calif.–Aug. 21, 2024— Astera Labs (Nasdaq: ALAB), a global leader in semiconductor-based connectivity solutions for AI and cloud infrastructure, today announced that it will participate in the Deutsche Bank 2024 Technology Conference on Aug. 29, 2024. Astera Labs’ presentation is scheduled for 12:30 pm PT. A webcast of the session will be made available on Astera Labs’…

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PCIe Cabling Demo at OCP 2024

At OCP Global Summit 2024, Astera Labs demonstrated its full portfolio of PCIe cabling solutions. The live demos included Aries PCIe/CXL Smart Cable Modules with Active Electrical Cables and Active Optical Cables to deliver extended reach for rack-to-rack and row-to-row configurations.

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CXL Demo for DLRM at OCP Summit 2024

At OCP Global Summit, Astera Labs demonstrated the performance benefits of CXL memory for Deep Learning Recommendation Models (DLRM). The demo featured a 5th Gen AMD EPYC processor, DDR5 memory from Samsung, and four Leo CXL Smart Memory Controllers. The demo showed that by doubling memory capacity and bandwidth in the system, there is about a 70% increase in performance for DLRM.

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End-to-End PCIe 6 Live Demo at OCP Summit 2024

At OCP Global Summit 2024, Astera Labs showcased the industry’s first end-to-end PCIe 6 demo, featuring the Scorpio Smart Fabric Switch. The Scorpio P-Series Fabric Switch was linked live at PCIe 6 64Gtps speeds with Gen 6 Exerciser from Keysight. In addition, see how COSMOS software suite delivers deep diagnostics and telemetry. 

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