InfiniBand vs Ethernet — Timeline
60 milestones, source-traced.
Dec 8, 2024
Product Launch: Cornelis Networks announced its 400G Omni-Path technology ahead of SC24.
funding-research →Dec 11, 2024
Funding: Ayar Labs raised $155 million in Series D funding led by Advent Global Opportunities…
Ayar Labs raised $155 million in Series D funding led by Advent Global Opportunities and Light Street Capital with participation from AMD Ventures, Intel Capital, NVIDIA, and 3M Ventures, bringing total funding to $370 million at a valuation above $1 billion.
funding-research →Dec 11, 2024
Funding: Ayar Labs closed a $155 million Series D round on December 11, 2024, led…
Ayar Labs closed a $155 million Series D round on December 11, 2024, led by Advent Global Opportunities and Light Street Capital, at a valuation above $1 billion.
funding-research →Jan 1, 2025
Product Launch: Enfabrica launched the ACF-S 'Millennium' chip running at 3.2 Terabits/sec and the Thames pilot…
Enfabrica launched the ACF-S 'Millennium' chip running at 3.2 Terabits/sec and the Thames pilot system, with initial shipments to AI infrastructure customers.
funding-research →Jan 1, 2025
Partnership: Meta Platforms participated as an investor in Databricks' $15.3 billion debt round alongside Barclays,…
Meta Platforms participated as an investor in Databricks' $15.3 billion debt round alongside Barclays, Citi, and Goldman Sachs in January 2025.
funding-research →Jan 22, 2025
Funding: Meta participated as a strategic investor in Databricks' $15.3B Debt/Series J round.
funding-research →Mar 18, 2025
Product Launch: Cornelis Networks unveiled the CN6000, an 800 Gbps Ethernet SuperNIC for AI and HPC…
Cornelis Networks unveiled the CN6000, an 800 Gbps Ethernet SuperNIC for AI and HPC at scale.
funding-research →May 1, 2025
Product Launch: In May 2025 Cornelis Networks launched the Omni-Path CN5000 product family, delivering 400 Gbps…
In May 2025 Cornelis Networks launched the Omni-Path CN5000 product family, delivering 400 Gbps per port and scaling to more than 500,000 endpoints, explicitly positioned as a fabric alternative to InfiniBand and Ethernet for large-scale AI training and HPC.
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May 1, 2025
Other: Alongside the CN5000 launch, Cornelis Networks published a multi-generation roadmap committing its next-generation CN6000…
Alongside the CN5000 launch, Cornelis Networks published a multi-generation roadmap committing its next-generation CN6000 fabric (800 Gbps, targeted for 2026) to Ultra Ethernet standards, signaling a pivot from proprietary Omni-Path toward Ethernet-AI for hyperscale AI training fabrics.
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May 28, 2025
Acquisition: HPE completed the sale of its 19% stake in H3C Technologies for $1.357B (total…
HPE completed the sale of its 19% stake in H3C Technologies for $1.357B (total pretax proceeds of $3.5B).
funding-research →Jun 1, 2025
Acquisition: Nvidia paid over $900 million to hire Enfabrica CEO Rochan Sankar and several employees…
Nvidia paid over $900 million to hire Enfabrica CEO Rochan Sankar and several employees and to license Enfabrica's technology.
funding-research →Jun 1, 2025
Partnership: Meta Platforms invested $14.3 billion in Scale AI as lead investor in a strategic…
Meta Platforms invested $14.3 billion in Scale AI as lead investor in a strategic Other Equity deal in June 2025.
funding-research →Jun 3, 2025
Earnings: HPE reported fiscal Q2 2025 revenue of about $7.6 billion, up 6% year over…
HPE reported fiscal Q2 2025 revenue of about $7.6 billion, up 6% year over year, with non-GAAP EPS of $0.38 and Server segment revenue of roughly $4.3 billion driven by AI systems. Management highlighted continued AI systems backlog as a growth driver.
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Jun 3, 2025
Product Launch: Cornelis Networks launched the CN5000, an AI & HPC scale-out network solution.
funding-research →Jun 11, 2025
Partnership: In June 2025 the Ultra Ethernet Consortium released its 1.0 specification targeting 800 Gbps-class…
In June 2025 the Ultra Ethernet Consortium released its 1.0 specification targeting 800 Gbps-class Ethernet for AI clusters scaling toward 1,000,000 endpoints; Cornelis Networks, a UEC member, aligned its CN6000-generation roadmap to the standard, reinforcing the Ethernet-AI vs. InfiniBand fabric contest.
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Jun 11, 2025
Other: With the Ultra Ethernet Consortium publishing its UEC 1.0 specification on June 11, 2025,…
With the Ultra Ethernet Consortium publishing its UEC 1.0 specification on June 11, 2025, HPE — a UEC member shipping the Ethernet-based HPE Slingshot interconnect in its Cray supercomputers — reinforced its push for Ethernet over InfiniBand in AI/HPC scale-out fabrics. Combined with the Juniper acquisition, this anchors HPE's Ethernet-for-AI-training strategy.
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Jun 11, 2025
Partnership: The Ultra Ethernet Consortium, of which Meta is a founding steering member alongside AMD,…
The Ultra Ethernet Consortium, of which Meta is a founding steering member alongside AMD, Broadcom, Cisco and Microsoft, released its UEC 1.0 specification on June 11, 2025, standardizing Ethernet transport for AI/HPC clusters scaling to 1 million+ endpoints as a direct challenge to InfiniBand.
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Jun 19, 2025
Partnership: Meta finalized a $14.3B investment in Scale AI for a 49% stake, valuing Scale…
Meta finalized a $14.3B investment in Scale AI for a 49% stake, valuing Scale AI at $29B+, and recruited Scale CEO Alexandr Wang to Meta's AI superintelligence unit.
funding-research →Jun 24, 2025
Product Launch: At HPE Discover (June 2025, Las Vegas), HPE expanded its 'NVIDIA AI Computing by…
At HPE Discover (June 2025, Las Vegas), HPE expanded its 'NVIDIA AI Computing by HPE' portfolio with new ProLiant and Cray systems supporting NVIDIA Blackwell (GB200 NVL72-class and RTX PRO 6000) plus an enhanced turnkey HPE Private Cloud AI. The launch deepened HPE's NVIDIA-aligned AI factory stack spanning compute, storage and Ethernet fabric.
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Jul 2, 2025
Acquisition: HPE closed its $14 billion all-cash acquisition of Juniper Networks ($40/share) on July 2,…
HPE closed its $14 billion all-cash acquisition of Juniper Networks ($40/share) on July 2, 2025, after settling a DOJ antitrust suit that forced HPE to divest its Instant On WLAN unit and license Juniper's Mist AIOps source code. The deal roughly doubles HPE's networking franchise and strengthens its Ethernet/AI-networking position against InfiniBand-centric rivals.
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Jul 2, 2025
Leadership Change: Upon closing the Juniper deal on July 2, 2025, HPE named former Juniper CEO…
Upon closing the Juniper deal on July 2, 2025, HPE named former Juniper CEO Rami Rahim to lead the combined HPE Networking business (Aruba plus Juniper), reporting to CEO Antonio Neri. The unit becomes one of HPE's largest and highest-margin segments and anchors its Ethernet-for-AI strategy.
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Jul 2, 2025
Acquisition: HPE finalized its acquisition of Juniper Networks on July 2, 2025, projecting $600 million…
HPE finalized its acquisition of Juniper Networks on July 2, 2025, projecting $600 million in cost synergies over three years.
funding-research →Jul 14, 2025
Capacity Expansion: Mark Zuckerberg disclosed on July 14, 2025 that Meta is building multi-gigawatt AI superclusters,…
Mark Zuckerberg disclosed on July 14, 2025 that Meta is building multi-gigawatt AI superclusters, with the ~1GW 'Prometheus' cluster coming online in 2026 and 'Hyperion' (Louisiana) scaling toward 5GW, both built on Meta's Ethernet/RoCE-based AI fabric rather than InfiniBand.
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Jul 24, 2025
Earnings: Intel reported Q2 2025 revenue of about $12.9 billion (roughly flat year over year)…
Intel reported Q2 2025 revenue of about $12.9 billion (roughly flat year over year) with a GAAP loss per share of $0.67, and CEO Lip-Bu Tan said the company would cut its core workforce to roughly 75,000 employees by year-end as part of a cost-reduction plan.
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Jul 30, 2025
Earnings: Meta reported Q2 2025 revenue of $47.52 billion and EPS of $7.14 on July…
Meta reported Q2 2025 revenue of $47.52 billion and EPS of $7.14 on July 30, 2025, and raised full-year 2025 capital expenditure guidance to $66–72 billion, citing accelerated AI infrastructure and networking buildout.
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Aug 1, 2025
Funding: Meta completed a $3.0B Post-IPO Equity round led by Blue Owl.
funding-research →Aug 1, 2025
Funding: Intel received $7.86B in CHIPS Act direct funding from the US Department of Commerce…
Intel received $7.86B in CHIPS Act direct funding from the US Department of Commerce for new semiconductor fabs and advanced packaging facilities.
funding-research →Aug 1, 2025
Partnership: The US government acquired a 10% equity stake in Intel via 274M shares plus…
The US government acquired a 10% equity stake in Intel via 274M shares plus options as part of the CHIPS Act strategic agreement.
funding-research →Aug 1, 2025
Funding: SoftBank Group invested $2B in Intel common stock at $23 per share.
funding-research →Aug 1, 2025
Partnership: Nvidia purchased $5B of Intel common stock (approximately 4% ownership) and announced a joint…
Nvidia purchased $5B of Intel common stock (approximately 4% ownership) and announced a joint development roadmap for data center and AI chips.
funding-research →Aug 1, 2025
Funding: Meta Platforms raised $3.0 billion in a Post-IPO Equity round led by Blue Owl…
Meta Platforms raised $3.0 billion in a Post-IPO Equity round led by Blue Owl in August 2025.
funding-research →Aug 1, 2025
Funding: Meta Platforms raised $26.0 billion in Post-IPO Debt led by PIMCO in August 2025.
funding-research →Aug 18, 2025
Funding: SoftBank Group agreed to invest $2 billion in Intel common stock at $23 per…
SoftBank Group agreed to invest $2 billion in Intel common stock at $23 per share, a strategic capital infusion to support Intel's foundry and AI-infrastructure roadmap.
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Aug 22, 2025
Other: The U.S. government took an approximately 9.9% equity stake in Intel — about 433.3…
The U.S. government took an approximately 9.9% equity stake in Intel — about 433.3 million shares for $8.9 billion — by converting awarded CHIPS Act and Secure Enclave grant funding into common stock.
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Sep 1, 2025
Acquisition: NVIDIA acquired a technology license from Enfabrica and recruited CEO Rochan Sankar along with…
NVIDIA acquired a technology license from Enfabrica and recruited CEO Rochan Sankar along with several employees, representing over $900 million in total investment and recruitment spend.
funding-research →Sep 3, 2025
Earnings: HPE posted fiscal Q3 2025 revenue of approximately $9.1 billion, up about 19% year…
HPE posted fiscal Q3 2025 revenue of approximately $9.1 billion, up about 19% year over year, in its first quarter partially consolidating Juniper Networks, with non-GAAP EPS near $0.44. Networking revenue jumped on the Juniper addition and HPE raised its full-year outlook.
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Sep 18, 2025
Partnership: NVIDIA agreed to invest $5 billion in Intel common stock at $23.28 per share…
NVIDIA agreed to invest $5 billion in Intel common stock at $23.28 per share and to co-develop multiple generations of custom data-center and PC products that link Intel x86 CPUs to NVIDIA platforms over the NVLink interconnect, a key escalation in the AI-fabric ecosystem.
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Sep 30, 2025
Customer Win: Meta signed a cloud compute agreement with CoreWeave worth up to $14.2 billion through…
Meta signed a cloud compute agreement with CoreWeave worth up to $14.2 billion through 2031, reported around September 30, 2025, securing additional GPU capacity to supplement Meta's own Ethernet-fabric AI training infrastructure.
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Oct 14, 2025
Other: At the OCP Global Summit in October 2025, Meta detailed its Ethernet-based Disaggregated Scheduled…
At the OCP Global Summit in October 2025, Meta detailed its Ethernet-based Disaggregated Scheduled Fabric and RoCE networking roadmap, building on its previously disclosed 24,576-GPU Ethernet/RoCE training clusters used for Llama-class models as an explicit alternative to InfiniBand.
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Oct 20, 2025
Customer Win: Cornelis Networks shipped Omni-Path Express CN5000 systems into multiple DOE national-lab HPC + AI…
Cornelis Networks shipped Omni-Path Express CN5000 systems into multiple DOE national-lab HPC + AI training clusters (announced through 2024-2025).
customer_wins_seed →Oct 23, 2025
Earnings: Intel reported Q3 2025 revenue of approximately $13.7 billion, up about 3% year over…
Intel reported Q3 2025 revenue of approximately $13.7 billion, up about 3% year over year and ahead of guidance, with non-GAAP EPS of roughly $0.23 as the Products and Foundry segments stabilized.
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Oct 29, 2025
Earnings: Meta reported Q3 2025 revenue of $51.24 billion on October 29, 2025 (with a…
Meta reported Q3 2025 revenue of $51.24 billion on October 29, 2025 (with a one-time $15.93 billion non-cash tax charge), and guided that 2026 capital expenditure dollar growth would be 'notably larger' than 2025, driven by AI compute and networking fabric expansion.
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Nov 18, 2025
Funding: Cornelis Networks filed notice of an exempt offering to raise $45 million in new…
Cornelis Networks filed notice of an exempt offering to raise $45 million in new equity investment.
funding-research →Nov 18, 2025
Product Launch: Cornelis Networks unveiled the CN6000, an 800 Gbps Ethernet SuperNIC for AI and HPC…
Cornelis Networks unveiled the CN6000, an 800 Gbps Ethernet SuperNIC for AI and HPC at scale, on November 18, 2025.
funding-research →Nov 25, 2025
Partnership: Cornelis Networks partnered with the U.S. Department of Energy on November 25, 2025 to…
Cornelis Networks partnered with the U.S. Department of Energy on November 25, 2025 to support the Genesis Mission HPC-AI-Quantum research platform.
funding-research →Dec 9, 2025
Partnership: Cornelis Networks collaborated with Supermicro in December 2025 to deliver integrated AI-HPC offerings addressing…
Cornelis Networks collaborated with Supermicro in December 2025 to deliver integrated AI-HPC offerings addressing power and network bottlenecks.
funding-research →Jan 6, 2026
Product Launch: At CES 2026 Intel launched the Core Ultra series 3 (Panther Lake) client processors,…
At CES 2026 Intel launched the Core Ultra series 3 (Panther Lake) client processors, its first high-volume products built on the Intel 18A process node, marking the on-shore ramp of 1 leading-edge node central to Intel Foundry's competitiveness.
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Jan 8, 2026
Customer Win: Meta detailed in its 2024 GenAI Infrastructure post that its 24K H100 RoCEv2 Ethernet…
Meta detailed in its 2024 GenAI Infrastructure post that its 24K H100 RoCEv2 Ethernet cluster relies on Arista 7800R Ethernet fabric (parallel to a second cluster using NVIDIA InfiniBand).
customer_wins_seed →Feb 12, 2026
Customer Win: Intel Gaudi 3 (with on-package 24x 200GbE RDMA-capable Ethernet) won design slots at IBM…
Intel Gaudi 3 (with on-package 24x 200GbE RDMA-capable Ethernet) won design slots at IBM Cloud, Dell, Supermicro AI server platforms.
customer_wins_seed →Feb 18, 2026
Customer Win: NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand NDR 400G fabric anchors the Microsoft Azure 'Eagle' supercomputer cluster (multi-thousand…
NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand NDR 400G fabric anchors the Microsoft Azure 'Eagle' supercomputer cluster (multi-thousand H100 nodes) used by OpenAI for GPT-class model training.
customer_wins_seed →Mar 3, 2026
Funding: Ayar Labs raised $500 million in Series E funding led by Neuberger Berman with…
Ayar Labs raised $500 million in Series E funding led by Neuberger Berman with participation from ARK Invest, Qatar Investment Authority, 1789 Capital, Insight Partners, Sequoia Global Equities, AMD, Alchip, MediaTek, and NVIDIA, bringing total funding to $870 million at a $3.75 billion valuation.
funding-research →Mar 3, 2026
Funding: Ayar Labs closed a $500 million Series E round on March 3, 2026, led…
Ayar Labs closed a $500 million Series E round on March 3, 2026, led by Neuberger Berman, at a valuation of $3.75 billion, bringing total funding to $870 million.
funding-research →Mar 25, 2026
Customer Win: HPE Cray Slingshot 11 (400Gbps Ethernet-class interconnect) deployed in El Capitan, Aurora, and multiple…
HPE Cray Slingshot 11 (400Gbps Ethernet-class interconnect) deployed in El Capitan, Aurora, and multiple Ultra Ethernet Consortium-aligned customer clusters.
customer_wins_seed →May 28, 2026
Funding: Meta Platforms committed $13 million in additional funding for its Oversight Board on May…
Meta Platforms committed $13 million in additional funding for its Oversight Board on May 28, 2026, extending the prior $30 million annual commitment through 2028.
funding-research →May 28, 2026
Acquisition: HPE completed the sale of its remaining 19% stake in H3C Technologies on May…
HPE completed the sale of its remaining 19% stake in H3C Technologies on May 28, 2026, receiving approximately $1.357 billion in cash proceeds and total pretax consideration of $3.5 billion.
funding-research →Jun 1, 2026
Funding: The Trump Administration injected nearly $9.9 billion into Intel in exchange for a 10%…
The Trump Administration injected nearly $9.9 billion into Intel in exchange for a 10% equity stake in the chipmaker.
funding-research →Jun 16, 2026
Customer Win: The 'Lynx' Supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory was deployed on June 16, 2026…
The 'Lynx' Supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory was deployed on June 16, 2026 using Cornelis CN5000 interconnects.
funding-research →Jun 21, 2026
Partnership: Cornelis Networks partnered with xFusion on June 21, 2026 to deliver high-performance infrastructure for…
Cornelis Networks partnered with xFusion on June 21, 2026 to deliver high-performance infrastructure for European automotive and industrial HPC.
funding-research →Jun 22, 2026
Partnership: Cornelis Networks launched a joint reference architecture initiative with NextSilicon for AI and HPC…
Cornelis Networks launched a joint reference architecture initiative with NextSilicon for AI and HPC on June 22, 2026.
funding-research →Jun 23, 2026
Customer Win: TACC (Texas Advanced Computing Center) accepted a Cornelis CN5000 upgrade on June 23, 2026…
TACC (Texas Advanced Computing Center) accepted a Cornelis CN5000 upgrade on June 23, 2026 to accelerate Stampede3 scientific computing.
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