For systems requiring multi-host sharing
Provide turnkey fabric solutions to shorten time to market Microchip Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: MCHP) today announced the availability of its Switchtec™ PAX Advanced Fabric Gen 4 PCIe switch family to support cloud, data center and hyperscale computing that accelerates advancements in artificial intelligence and machine learning.

▲ Switchtech PAX Advanced Fabric 4th Generation
Launch of PCIe switch product line [Photo = Microchip]
The Switchtec PAX PCIe switch family accelerates time to market by providing a turnkey fabric solution for systems requiring multi-host sharing, including Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV), Non-Volatile Memory (NVMe), SSDs, GPUs, and other PCIe endpoints.
Microchip's Switchtec PAX devices are fourth-generation PCIe switches that reduce overall system power consumption. The Switchtech PAX family comes in a variety of variants including 100-lane, 84-lane, 68-lane, 52-lane, 36-lane, and 28-lane.
In addition, it has features such as ▲improved error blocking function ▲comprehensive diagnostic and debug function ▲extensive input/output (I/O) interface ▲integrated MIPS processor ▲secure boot that prevents unauthorized firmware execution through public key encryption.
Applications include GPU workstations, configurable general purpose GPU (GP-GPU) fabrics, scalable multi-host systems, SR-IOV-enabled JBOFs, disaggregated systems, and rack-scale architectures.