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.

Jericho4 joins Tomahawk Ultra and Tomahawk 6 to offer scalable, secure, and lossless interconnects for HPC and distributed AI environments.