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Nvidia's Next Bottleneck Isn't the GPU. It's the Wire Between GPUs.

Individual accelerators keep getting faster. The copper connecting thousands of them together increasingly cannot keep up — which is why Nvidia is betting heavily on replacing that copper with light.

By Brecht Corbeel · August 10, 2026 · 4 min read

A liquid-cooling manifold caught being installed onto a rack row in a bright datacenter, still a few inches from its mounting brackets, with older air-cooling ductwork visible being removed nearby

AI Hardware & Semiconductors

Liquid Cooling Just Stopped Being Optional

Co-packaged optics and denser accelerators raised local heat density past what air can remove. Liquid cooling isn't a premium upgrade anymore — it's a prerequisite for the technology this cohort's other briefings describe.

By Brecht Corbeel · August 10, 2026 · 4 min read

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