Synopsys, MediaTek, Marvell, and Others Embrace NVIDIA's NVLink Fusion for AI Workloads

By Tiera Oliver

Associate Editor

Embedded Computing Design

May 19, 2025

News

Synopsys, MediaTek, Marvell, and Others Embrace NVIDIA's NVLink Fusion for AI Workloads

COMPUTEX—NVIDIA's NVIDIA NVLink Fusion, new silicon designed to enable the build of semi-custom AI infrastructure, has been adopted by MediaTek, Marvell, Alchip Technologies, Astera Labs, Synopsys, and Cadence, enabling custom silicon scale-up to support workloads for model training and agentic AI inference. 

Using NVLink Fusion, Fujitsu and Qualcomm Technologies CPUs can also be integrated with NVIDIA GPUs to build high-performance NVIDIA AI factories.

Per the company, NVLink Fusion equips cloud providers with a path to scale out AI factories to millions of GPUs, using any ASIC, NVIDIA’s rack-scale systems, and the NVIDIA end-to-end networking platform, which delivers up to 800Gb/s of throughput and features NVIDIA ConnectX®-8 SuperNICsNVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet, and NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand switches, with co-packaged optics available soon.

Using NVLink Fusion, hyperscalers can work with the NVIDIA partner ecosystem to integrate NVIDIA rack-scale solutions for deployment in data center infrastructure.

NVLink Fusion also enables AI innovators like Fujitsu and Qualcomm Technologies to each couple their custom CPUs with NVIDIA GPUs in a rack-scale architecture to boost AI performance.

To maximize AI factory throughput and performance in a power-efficient way, the fifth-generation NVIDIA NVLink platform includes NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 and GB300 NVL72, compute-dense racks that provide a total bandwidth of 1.8 TB/s per GPU — 14x faster than PCIe Gen5.

Leading hyperscalers are already deploying NVIDIA NVLink full-rack solutions and can speed time to availability by standardizing their heterogeneous silicon data centers on the NVIDIA rack architecture with NVLink Fusion.

AI factories connected with NVIDIA NVLink Fusion are powered by NVIDIA Mission Control, a unified operations and orchestration software platform that automates the management of AI data centers and workloads.

NVIDIA Mission Control is designed to improve AI factory operations, from configuring deployments to validating infrastructure to orchestrating mission-critical workloads, to helping enterprises get frontier models up and running faster.

NVIDIA NVLink Fusion silicon design services and solutions are available now from MediaTek, Marvell, Alchip, Astera Labs, Synopsys, and Cadence.

Tiera Oliver, Associate Editor for Embedded Computing Design, is responsible for web content edits, product news, and constructing stories. She also assists with newsletter updates as well as contributing and editing content for ECD podcasts and the ECD YouTube channel. Before working at ECD, Tiera graduated from Northern Arizona University where she received her B.S. in journalism and political science and worked as a news reporter for the university’s student led newspaper, The Lumberjack.

More from Tiera