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Industry initiative that shares open hardware designs for data center servers, racks, networking and power and cooling.
Nvidia said at the OCP summit that Google and Meta will adopt its Spectrum-X and related networking gear. Google's named products are narrower than that description, so the announcement shows less about Nvidia's network position than its lead sentence suggests.
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Meta, Microsoft and Alibaba co-lead OSPA, a new OCP initiative whose switch-platform specification v1.0 has been submitted to OCP. MetaRoCE now has open-source implementations; the rack and fabric designs are described, with release terms unstated.
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Intel named Crescent Island the GPU D-Series at OCP 2026, a 350W air-cooled PCIe card with up to 480GB of LPDDR5X. Tom's Hardware reported a 1.3 PFLOPS FP8 peak target and 1.5 TB/s of bandwidth; customer sampling is in progress.
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Nvidia contributed its Vera Rubin rack and compute tray designs to the Open Compute Project at the project's Global Summit in San Jose. Nvidia says builders get common blueprints for racks, networking, power and cooling; the benchmark figures released alongside are its own.
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Cisco told the Open Compute Project summit that its 102.4-terabit Silicon One G300 is now shipping to customers at volume. Buyers can order against those dates. The optics module Cisco showed with Nvidia rests on Cisco's own bandwidth claims.
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