ByteDance's Gryphon Puts DPUs Inside the Switching ASIC Path
ByteDance's Gryphon shows hyperscalers building DPUs directly into the switching ASIC forwarding path, while two more papers make the case that AI training infrastructure is really a networking problem in disguise. Plus Texas bets big on transmission lines, Anthropic bets bigger on a Kentucky smelter, and a molecule gets spun by light inside liquid helium.
Welcome to Amaze Networks for Tuesday, July seventh.
Can I jump in? There's a paper from ByteDance I've been thinking about since I read it this morning, and it's basically a hyperscaler admitting, on the record, that neither pure switch silicon nor pure DPUs were ever going to get them to petabit scale alone.
That's a hell of a way to start a Tuesday. Let's get into it.
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