This award honors semiconductor companies that demonstrate excellence in innovation, execution, and industry impact. This recognition highlights Credo’s innovative contributions in delivering high-speed, energy-efficient connectivity solutions tailored to the evolving demands of AI, cloud computing, and data center infrastructure.
“This award is a testament to the ingenuity and dedication of our team, as well as the trust and collaboration of our partners and customers,” said Bill Brennan, CEO of Credo. “At Credo, we push the boundaries for high-speed connectivity, to enable the future of AI, cloud, and data center infrastructure. We thank the GSA and our peers for this incredible recognition.”
Recognition From the Global Semiconductor Alliance
The recognition came during the GSA’s 30th-anniversary gala, an event that honors excellence across the global semiconductor landscape. Credo’s achievements signal a bright future as the company continues its ongoing mission to deliver transformative solutions for the data infrastructure market. Credo remains committed to addressing the challenges of the data-driven world with energy-efficient, high-performance connectivity solutions.
Addressing AI Infrastructure Needs
The PCIe interface remains critical in AI clusters where high-speed interconnects are required to link GPUs, CPUs, and endpoints like Smart NICs and NVME storage. As AI workloads continue to grow in complexity and scale, there has never been a greater demand for faster data transfer and more efficient hardware connectivity. To meet these challenges, innovations like Credo’s retimers help eliminate bottlenecks and streamline data flow across systems, while also enhancing performance.
Alongside these developments, Credo’s retimers and PCIe OSFP-XD AECs play a crucial role in enhancing PCIe cabling architectures. High performance PCB materials and passive cabling is still limited for robust PCIe 6.0 and 7.0 channel lengths. By leveraging Credos retimers on the PCB at one end of a passive cable or within the PCIe OSFP-XD cable, Credo solutions can compensate for the higher insertion loss in PCIe 6.0 and 7.0 systems extending reach up to 7m and enabling in rack and rack-to-rack solutions.
Enhanced Diagnostics for Faster Deployment
With the move to PAM4 signaling for PCIe 6.0 and 7.0, debug is considerably more challenging due to lower SNR, and higher sensitivity to jitter and noise (ISI, crosstalk, reflection, etc.). Credo has over a decade of PAM4 SerDes design and debug experience, enabling best in class development tools. Features like an integrated logic analyzer, PCIe port/lane configuration and status, and advanced SerDes diagnostics including eye diagrams help customers get to market quickly with robust, reliable systems.
Pioneering a Sustainable Future
In line with the industry’s growing emphasis on sustainability, Credo places a strong focus on energy efficiency. By optimizing power consumption and leveraging cost-effective process technologies, Credo’s solutions help scale data infrastructure without dramatically increasing energy consumption. This approach not only supports the industry's shift towards greener technology but also underscores Credo's commitment to a more sustainable future.
The Future of Connectivity
With the move to faster speeds of 64 GT/s for PCIe 6.0/CXL and 128 GT/s for PCIe 7.0/CXL and speeds beyond 224 Gb/s for Ethernet and UALink, Credo’s in house SerDes solutions are well positioned to deliver reliable, cost-efficient, and high-performance system solutions for the AI-driven infrastructure ensuring data centers can scale effectively to meet tomorrow’s demands.
Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd (Credo) (NASDAQ: CRDO) an innovator in providing secure, high-speed connectivity solutions that deliver improved energy efficiency as data rates and corresponding bandwidth requirements increase throughout the data infrastructure market, is proud to announce its collaboration with Net One Systems, a leading IT and communications solution provider in Japan. This agreement marks the first time that Credo’s innovative HiWire Active Electrical Cables (AECs) will be distributed in the Japanese market, catering to the rapidly expanding generative AI infrastructure.
With Net One Systems as an official distributor, Credo AECs will deliver a critical solution for high-bandwidth and low-power communication networks which are essential for generative AI, hyperscale data centers, and advanced telecommunications buildouts. HiWire AECs provide several advantages over traditional Active Optical Cables (AOCs), including lower power consumption and greater flexibility in numerous configuration options—vital factors for businesses seeking to optimize performance while reducing operational costs.
“We are excited to partner with Net One Systems, an esteemed leader in the Japanese ICT landscape,” said Michael Girvan Lampe, Vice President of Worldwide Sales for Credo. “Our HiWire AECs are designed to meet the challenges of next-generation AI networks by delivering superior reliability, bandwidth, and energy efficiency compared to passive, direct attached copper. Together, we aim to support Japan’s AI-driven future with innovative solutions that cater to the unique needs of one of the world’s most dynamic technology markets.”
“By offering Credo's HiWire AEC cables to the Japanese market, we are enabling energy-efficient data centers and fostering sustainable growth for our clients while helping to contribute to an eco-friendly global environment,” explained Yusuke Fujita, Vice President of Business Development Division at Net One Systems. “Net One looks forward to working with Credo in delivering high-performance, low-power solutions for the next generation of AI data centers to our customers in the Japanese market.”
To learn more about the Credo products in this release go to the product pages linked here.
Net One Systems Co., Ltd. is a group of ICT experts with the ability to identify superior technologies and value. The company is committed to contributing to a sustainable society by providing services that create social and economic value through the utilization of these technologies. Net One Systems continuously monitors global cutting-edge technology trends, evaluates their combinations, and implements them. By practicing these technologies in-house, the company also delivers practical utilization know-how to its clients.
About Credo
Our mission is to deliver high-speed solutions to break bandwidth barriers on every wired connection in the data infrastructure market. Credo is an innovator in providing secure, high-speed connectivity solutions that deliver improved power and cost efficiency as data rates and corresponding bandwidth requirements increase exponentially throughout the data infrastructure market. Our innovations ease system bandwidth bottlenecks while simultaneously improving on power, security, and reliability. Our connectivity solutions are optimized for optical and electrical Ethernet applications, including the emerging 100G (or Gigabits per second), 200G, 400G and 800G port markets. Our products are based on our proprietary Serializer/Deserializer (SerDes) and Digital Signal Processor (DSP) technologies. Our product families include integrated circuits (ICs), Active Electrical Cables (AECs) and SerDes chiplets. Our intellectual property (IP) solutions consist primarily of SerDes IP licensing.
For more information, please visit: https://www.credosemi.com. Follow Credo on LinkedIn and Twitter.
Credo Leverages SerDes Expertise to Deliver Energy Efficient PCIe 6 and 7 Retimers
San Jose, Calif., October 14, 2024 – Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd (Credo) (NASDAQ: CRDO), an innovator in providing secure, high-speed connectivity solutions that deliver improved energy efficiency as data rates and corresponding bandwidth requirements increase throughout the data infrastructure market, is excited to announce the company’s first Toucan PCI Express (PCIe) 6, Compute Express Link (CXL) 3.x and Magpie PCIe 7, CXL 4.x retimers and OSFP-XD 16x64GT/s (1Tb) PCIe6/CXL HiWire AECs. Credo will demonstrate the Toucan PCIe 6 retimers and HiWire AECs at the upcoming Open Compute Project (OCP) Summit October15-17 in Booth31 and the OCP Innovation Center.
Building on Credo's renowned Serializer/Deserializer (SerDes) technology, the new PCIe 6 and PCIe 7 retimers deliver industry leading performance and power efficiency while being built on lower cost, more mature process nodes than competing devices. Credo will also include enhanced diagnostic tools, including an embedded logic analyzer and advanced SerDes tools driven by a new GUI designed to enable rapid bring up and debug of customer systems.
To see a brief video overview of the Credo PCI Express retimers and cables, go here.
"Credo is excited to extend our leadership into a new category of high-speed connectivity with the introduction of the Toucan PCIe 6 and Magpie PCIe 7 retimers," said Phil Kumin of Credo, Associate Vice President of PCIe Product. “By leveraging a mature process technology node, we are well positioned to achieve a cost advantage over our competition. Furthermore, with our SerDes already under evaluation on Tier 1 reference platforms, Credo is well positioned to capitalize on the AI industry’s transition to PCIe 7 and take advantage of the throughput improvement.”
“As PCIe speeds climb to 64GT/s and 128GT/s, retimers are increasingly critical components.” Said Dr. Debendra Das Sharma, Intel Senior Fellow, Chief Architect of I/O Technology and Standards in the Data Center Platforms and Artificial Intelligence Group at Intel Corporation. “As a leader in PCIe, we commend Credo for their investment in PCIe6/CXL3.x and PCIe7/CXL4.x retimers and we’re excited to collaborate with them on pre-silicon co-simulation.
Credo’s Toucan PCIe6/CXL3.x retimer, based on the TSMC N7 process technology, will sample in Q4, 2024. Toucan offers a full DSP SerDes to support PAM4 PCIe channels up to 43dB, enhanced diagnostic tools including an embedded logic analyzer, and x16 power of 11W. Credo’s Magpie PCIe7/CXL4.x retimer, based on the TSMC N5 process node, will begin sampling in H2 2025.
About Credo
Our mission is to deliver high-speed solutions to break bandwidth barriers on every wired connection in the data infrastructure market. Credo is an innovator in providing secure, high-speed connectivity solutions that deliver improved power and cost efficiency as data rates and corresponding bandwidth requirements increase exponentially throughout the data infrastructure market. Our innovations ease system bandwidth bottlenecks while simultaneously improving on power, security, and reliability. Our connectivity solutions are optimized for optical and electrical Ethernet applications, including the emerging 100G (or Gigabits per second), 200G, 400G and 800G port markets. Our products are based on our proprietary Serializer/Deserializer (SerDes) and Digital Signal Processor (DSP) technologies. Our product families include integrated circuits (ICs), Active Electrical Cables (AECs) and SerDes chiplets. Our intellectual property (IP) solutions consist primarily of SerDes IP licensing.
For more information, please visit: https://www.credosemi.com. Follow Credo on LinkedIn and Twitter.
Live Demos to Include Newly introduced PCI Express 6.0 Devices and CXL Interconnect
San Jose, Calif, October 14, 2024: Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd (Credo) (NASDAQ: CRDO) an innovator in providing secure, high-speed connectivity solutions that deliver energy efficiency as data rates and corresponding bandwidth requirements increase throughout the data infrastructure market, is excited to announce its participation in the upcoming OCP Global Summit from October 15-17, 2024, in San Jose, CA. The event will provide Credo with a platform to showcase generative AI, general compute and operator focused connectivity solutions and include multiple presentations by Credo executives.
Conference: OCP Global Summit
Date: October 15-17, 2024
Location: San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, CA
Locations: Booth B31 and the OCP Innovation Village
Credo Exhibit Highlights:
Credo will demonstrate Toucan, its newly introduced PCI Express (PCIe) 6.0 retimer, and 1Tb OSFP-XD PCIe6 (16x64Gb) Active Electrical Cable (AEC). In addition, Credo will display its 800G sub-10W OSFP optical modules with Linear Receive Optics (LRO) capability interoperating with 51T switches and standard DSP modules.
In the OCP Innovation Village, Credo is working with AMD, GIGABYTE, MemVerge, MSI, Penguin Solutions, Rittal, SMART Modular Technologies, and XConn to show live demonstrations of PCIe and Compute Express Link (CXL) interconnect. Additionally, the solution providers will showcase how rack power/density increases as liquid cooling technology penetrates the data center.
The first live demonstration of a rack-scale shared H100 GPU will consist of an AMD EPYC server connected to an XConn PCIe 5 switch via Credo OSFP-XD PCIe AECs, with the XConn switch further driving two chassis of NVIDIA H100 GPUs.
In the second live demonstration, a rack-scale CXL2.0 shared memory system will be demonstrated withMemory Machine X software from MemVerge showing AMD EPYC 9005 servers connected to an XConn CXL switch via Credo CXL AECs, the XConn CXL Switch connecting to two chassis full of CXL memory – one based on CEM AIC form factor from SMART Modular – one based on the E3 form factor from Micron. This will enable the servers to fully access and share the CXL memory using the CXL.mem protocol.
In the third showcase, a series of three AI GPU racks will illustrate the impact of liquid cooling on racking and network configurations. A 10kW air cooled rack, a 50kW air cooled rack, and a 120kW liquid cooled rack, all based on the Open Rack v3 (ORv3) standard with the Rittal liquid cooling plenum attached, and a full set of networking interconnect based on Credo’s AECs and optical devices, will be connected to support the front-end, scaleout and scaleup Networks necessary for these advanced racks.
To view a video preview of the Credo OCP demonstrations, go here.
Credo Comment:
“Credo is pleased to be part of the OCP Global Summit, the leading event for showcasing the technologies designed to address increasing data infrastructure demands,” said Don Barnetson VP of Product for PCIe/CXL at Credo. “The new Credo PCIe6 and CXL solutions, including the Toucan retimer and OSFP-XD Active Electrical Cables, are designed to revolutionize connectivity for next generation data center and GPU designs and provide our customers with the tools to achieve enhanced performance and efficiency.”
Comments from Other Innovation Center Participants:
“As AI and high-performance computing workloads become more complex, the demand for scalable, memory-centric infrastructure is growing exponentially,” said Gerry Fan, CEO of XConn Technologies. “Our XConn Apollo switch is designed to meet this demand head-on by enabling seamless integration of both PCIe and CXL in a single solution, offering unparalleled flexibility and performance for system designers. Our partnership with Credo is particularly valuable, as their advanced connectivity solutions are critical in driving the low-latency, high-bandwidth connectivity required to unlock the full potential of our switch technology. Together, our live demonstrations at the OCP Innovation Village will highlight the transformative potential of this collaboration, from GPU sharing to memory pooling, setting the stage for the next generation of data center architectures.”
“Our new 4- and 8-DIMM CXL add-in-cards make it incredibly easy for memory pooling appliances and CXL capable servers to expand server memory to handle the rapid increase in demand for in-memory databases, feature stores, as well as real-time data center and edge applications,” said Andy Mills, vice president of advanced product development at SMART.
"Today we are demonstrating how exceeding the typical limit of 8 GPU per server can accelerate AI applications running on a single server,” said Phil Pokorny, chief technology officer/CTO of Penguin Solutions. “This can simplify management tasks compared to scaling with multiple machines. In addition, once disaggregated this way, the GPU becomes composable, with multiple servers and the GPU sharing the same switches delivering additional flexibility."
“The availability of optical technology like Credo retimers and optical modules is required for CXL environments to scale,” said Charles Fan, CEO and Co-founder of MemVerge. “Software like Memory Machine X from MemVerge is also required to visualize, intelligently tier data, and share data on CXL memory.”
“At MSI, we are excited to present the S2206-02 platform, crafted to meet the evolving demands of modern data centers,” said Danny Hsu, General Manager of MSI’s Enterprise Platform Solutions. “With dual AMD EPYC 9005/9004 Series processors, support for seven PCIe add-on cards, and flexible networking options, this system delivers exceptional performance for AI, cloud computing, and other high-performance applications. We look forward to collaborating with Credo to drive innovation and help organizations achieve higher productivity.”
Credo invites all OCP Global Summit attendees to visit booth #B31, the Innovation Village Exhibit Center and attend the Credo presentations to learn more.
To learn more about the Credo Products in this release go to the product pages linked here.
About Credo
Our mission is to deliver high-speed solutions to break bandwidth barriers on every wired connection in the data infrastructure market. Credo is an innovator in providing secure, high-speed connectivity solutions that deliver improved power efficiency as data rates and corresponding bandwidth requirements increase exponentially throughout the data infrastructure market. Our innovations ease system bandwidth bottlenecks while simultaneously improving on power, security, and reliability. Our connectivity solutions are optimized for optical and electrical Ethernet applications, including the emerging 100G (or Gigabits per second), 200G, 400G,800G and the emerging 1.6T (or Terabits per second) port markets. Credo products are based on our proprietary Serializer/Deserializer (SerDes) and Digital Signal Processor (DSP) technologies. Our product families include Integrated Circuits (ICs) for the optical and line card markets, Active Electrical Cables (AECs) and SerDes Chiplets. Our intellectual property (IP) solutions consist primarily of SerDes IP licensing.
For more information, please visit https://www.credosemi.com. Follow Credo on LinkedIn.
San Jose, Calif, September 10, 2024: Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd (“Credo”) (Nasdaq: CRDO), an innovator in providing secure and high-speed connectivity solutions is pleased to announce a new family of HiWire Active Electrical Cables (AECs) targeted specifically for the growing 400G Q112 network port market for China Hyperscale Data Centers, addressing the need for AI/ML backend network connections to Top of Rack (TOR) Switches.
The new HiWire Shift cables are based on Credo’s market leading 800G HiWire AECs. They offer outstanding energy efficiency, higher performance than previous solutions, and extreme reliability for up to 100M hours MTBF for critical AIML applications. Members of the new HiWire Shift AEC family are sampling now, with production scheduled for Q1/2025 and including the following:
“To meet the specific demands of hyperscalers in China that require the Q112 TOR interface, Credo is extending our 800G HiWire AEC family by introducing the new HiWire Shift family which includes three new Q112 products,” said Ameet Suri, Head of AEC Product and Business Development. "HiWire AECs continue to gain traction with Hyperscalers for NIC to TOR connectivity and we look forward to extending that reach even further in the China market with these new AEC offerings.”
“QSFP112 will be a critical node for AI/ML backend Networks in the China Hyperscale Market.” said Alan Weckel, Principal at 650 Research. “It makes sense that new customers in China would consider Credo’s AEC leadership position when looking for a trusted supplier offering low-power, high performance solutions.”
Credo will demonstrate these new HiWire Shift AECs at the upcoming China International Optoelectronic Expo (CIOE) 2024 Conference (CIOE) in Shenzhen, China Sept. 11 – 13, 2024. CIOE attendees are encouraged to visit Credo in booth #12C29 to learn more about these new HiWire devices
To learn more about the Credo products in this release go to the product pages linked here.
About Credo
Our mission is to deliver high-speed solutions to break bandwidth barriers on every wired connection in the data infrastructure market. Credo is an innovator in providing secure, high-speed connectivity solutions that deliver improved power efficiency as data rates and corresponding bandwidth requirements increase exponentially throughout the data infrastructure market. Our innovations ease system bandwidth bottlenecks while simultaneously improving on power, security, and reliability. Our connectivity solutions are optimized for optical and electrical Ethernet applications, including the emerging 100G (or Gigabits per second), 200G, 400G,800G and the emerging 1.6T (or Terabits per second) port markets. Credo products are based on our proprietary Serializer/Deserializer (SerDes) and Digital Signal Processor (DSP) technologies. Our product families include Integrated Circuits (ICs) for the optical and line card markets, Active Electrical Cables (AECs) and SerDes Chiplets. Our intellectual property (IP) solutions consist primarily of SerDes IP licensing.
For more information, please visit https://www.credosemi.com. Follow Credo on LinkedIn.