Astera Labs announced Orion, a modular rack-scale reference design for AI inference that decouples infrastructure from accelerator choice. The 320-lane PCIe switch fabric scales 8-160 GPUs per pod. Production-grade designs available through ODM/OEM partners starting Q1 2027. Demo at OCP Summit this week.
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