Codenamed Jericho4, Broadcom claims 51.2 Tb/s of aggregate bandwidth across the ASIC's switch and fabric ports. But while the chip can serve double duty as a scale-out or scale-up network switch, Broadcom has far higher radix and lower latency options with its Tomahawk 6 or Ultra accelerators.

Broadcom's silicon division launched its next-generation Jericho networking chip on Monday, which is designed to connect data centers over 60 miles (96.5 km) apart and speed artificial intelligence computation.

Broadcom has begun shipping its new Jericho4 Ethernet fabric router, a high-performance platform designed to meet the growing demands of distributed artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure.