Credo and XConn to Showcase Seamless GPU Cluster at NVIDIA GTC

Live Demo Showing GPU Cluster Across New Credo OSFP-XD PCI Express AECs with XConn Apollo 256-lane Switch at Industry’s Premier AI Conference

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd (Credo) (NASDAQ: CRDO) an innovator in providing secure, high-speed connectivity solutions that deliver improved reliability and energy efficiency, working with XConn Technologies (XConn), an innovator in advanced PCIe/CXL switch technologies, today announced a public demonstration of multi-vendor PCI Express (PCIe) 5.0 interoperability featuring the two companies’ technology at the NVIDIA GTC 2025 conference.

The demonstration features the Credo Toucan based OSFP-XD PCIe Active Electrical Cables (AECs) with an XConn 256-lane PCIe 5.0 Apollo switch in an advanced AI cluster running a Hugging Face Llama LLM (Large Language Model) inference workload. Credo AECs will connect ten NVIDIA H100 GPUs to the server through the XConn switch.

This live showcase marks the first public showing of the Credo PCI Express Gen5 AEC in a high-performance AI environment.

Conference: NVIDIA GTC
Date: March 17-21, 2025
Location: Booth 1810

Credo Comment:

“NVIDIA GTC is the industry’s most important conference with respect to AI advancements and Credo is thrilled to showcase our PCIe solutions at the show,” said Phil Kumin, AVP of Product for PCIe/CXL at Credo. “Our latest PCIe5/6 and CXL innovations, including the Toucan retimer and our OSFP-XD AECs, are engineered to redefine connectivity in next generation data centers with GPU architectures. By delivering outstanding performance and efficiency, we are empowering our customers with new scale-up and scale-out capabilities. The collaboration with XConn highlights the seamless interoperability of Credo’s PCIe solutions with other leading-edge solutions.”

XConn Comment:

“XConn is proud to demonstrate the powerful capabilities of our Apollo 256-lane switch alongside Credo's innovative OSFP-XD PCIe AECs at this year's NVIDIA GTC,” said Gerry Fan, CEO, XConn Technologies. “This collaboration showcases how our cutting-edge technologies can work seamlessly together to push the boundaries of AI and high-performance computing. The interoperability between the XConn Apollo switch and Credo AECs exemplifies our commitment to providing scalable, high-performance solutions that meet the rigorous demands of modern data centers and AI infrastructures.”

Credo invites all NVIDIA GTC attendees to experience the demo in booth 1810.

About Credo

Credo’s mission is to advance high-speed connectivity solutions that deliver optimized performance, reliability, energy efficiency, and security for the next generation of AI driven applications, cloud computing, and hyperscale networks. Optimized for both optical and electrical applications, our solutions support port speeds up to 1.6Tb. At the core of our technology is our proprietary Serializer/Deserializer (SerDes) IP. Our diverse solutions portfolio includes system-level products such as Active Electrical Cables (AECs), a range of Integrated Circuits, including Retimers, Optical DSPs, SerDes chipsets, and SerDes IP Licensing.

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