Cisco's family of in-house networking ASICs (G300, G302, P200, A100) powering its Nexus and 8000-series switches and routers for data center and AI networks.
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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NVIDIA and Cisco announced plans for USFP, a pluggable optic with 400Gb/s per lane and a stated ceiling of 12.8Tb/s per module. The first planned modules have 16 lanes, or 6.4Tb/s each way, so the ceiling needs 32 lanes or a two-way count.
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Rack-scale Secure AI Factory becomes orderable in September, with Supermicro compute from October. What is being sold is validated integration, and the loss line is idle capacity.
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CVE-2026-20212 needs no credentials and returns root on ten Silicon One Nexus 9000 models. Cisco named no fixed release with the advisory. Remediation starts with a web lookup and an access list.
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Hyperscalers absorb about two-thirds of AI outlay, so rack-scale kit is now packaged for sovereign clouds, neoclouds and enterprises that cannot staff a GPU fabric team.
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