On January 14, Apple joined the Ultra Accelerator Link Alliance to develop next-generation technology to accelerate the connection of chips in the AI data center.
It is known that this alliance is developing a standard, called UALink, to help connect AI-accelerated chips that are increasingly popular in server farms.
Since the merger at the end of October 2024, the Ultra Accelerator Link alliance has developed with more than 65 member companies, including leading technology corporations such as Intel, AMD, Google, AWS, Alibaba, Synopsys, Microsoft and Meta.
In a recent statement, Becky Loop - Apple's foundation architect, said that UALink shows great prospects in solving connectivity challenges and creating new opportunities to expand the capabilities and needs of AI.
UALink aims to connect chips from GPUs to custom-designed solutions to accelerate the training process, refine and run AI models. The first UALink products are expected to launch in the next few years.
Apple's participation in UALink comes as the " Taos" plan to increase investment in infrastructure to support the AI product feature set called Apple Intelligence. Previously, Apple was said to be developing a new server chip to improve the performance of AI data centers.
