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No, this is a rack built on NVIDIA’s platform, so this is just more $$$ for them.
The article talks about NVidia racks, but also about their DSF [0], which is Ethernet-based (as opposed to Infiniband) built on switches using Cisco and Broadcom chipsets and custom ASIC xPU accelerators such as their own MTIA [1] which is built for them by Broadcom. So they are talking more than one approach simultaneously.

[0] https://engineering.fb.com/2024/10/15/data-infrastructure/op...

[1] https://ai.meta.com/blog/next-generation-meta-training-infer...

There's also an AMD rack and meta is big enough that they won't get blacklisted for it.
Yeah this is... nothing. At least nothing anyone worth less than a few billion could ever care about.

Would be far more interesting to see MTIA in an edge compute PCIe form.