Broadcom has started shipping its Tomahawk 4 switch to major cloud providers such as Alibaba and Microsoft. The chip packs 31 billion transistors on TSMC’s 7nm process and has 64 ports of 400GbE switching.
Two years after sampling its 12.8Tbps Tomahawk 3 silicon on TSMC’s 16FF+, segment leader Broadcom has now started shipping Tomahawk 4, the industry’s first switch capable of 25.6Tbps. Early adopters include Alibaba





