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Microchip Producing Switchtec PAX Fabric Gen 4 PCIe Switch Family

Provides greater flexibility and scalability for data center and cloud AI and ML architectures.

To support cloud, data center and hyperscale computing that facilitates advancements in AI and ML, Microchip Technology Inc. released to production its Switchtec PAX Advanced Fabric Gen 4 PCIe switch family, enabling complex fabric topologies with greater scalability, lower latency, and higher performance than traditional PCIe switches.

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The family of switches provides a turnkey fabric solution and reduces time-to-market for systems requiring multi-host sharing of Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) NVMe SSDs, graphics processing units and other PCIe endpoints.

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Microchip Switchtec PAX Advanced Fabric Gen 4 PCIe Switches Released to Production

The devices are low-power Gen 4 PCIe switches, reducing total system power consumption. This family of switches is available in the following variants: 100-lane, 84-lane, 68-lane, 52-lane, 36-lane and 28-lane. Other PAX family of switches features include:

  • Advanced error containment

  • Diagnostics and debug capabilities

  • Wide breadth of I/O interfaces

  • Integrated MIPS processor

  • Secure boot to prevent execution of unauthorized firmware through public key cryptography.

Applications include GPU workstations, composable General Purpose GPUs fabrics, scalable multi-host systems, SR-IOV-enabled JBOFs, disaggregated systems and rack-scale architectures.

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