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High-speed copper cables, Amphenol
Wallingford (Connecticut), United States41.46°N 72.82°W
computed criticality11/100
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>5,000 copper cables per GB200 NVL72 rack (≈3 km)
2024Fault line
Each GB200 NVL72 rack carries more than 5,000 very high-speed copper cables, nearly three kilometres, linking 72 GPUs via Amphenol's NVLink backplane. Nvidia chose copper over optics to save megawatts, shifting the bottleneck to the 224 Gb/s connectors, whose capacity struggles to keep up.
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