UALink logo. Apple has joined the board of directors for the Ultra Accelerator Link Consortium, giving it more of a say in how the architecture for AI server infrastructure will evolve. The Ultra Accelerator Link Consortium (UALink), is an open industry standard group for the development of UALink specifications. As a potential key element used for the development of artificial intelligence models and accelerators, the development of the standards could be massively beneficial to the future of AI itself.
On Tuesday, it was announced that three more members have been elected to the consortium's board. Apple was one of the trio, alongside Alibaba and Synopsys. The consortium now consists of more than 65 companies as members since its incorporation in October 2024.
"UALink shows great promise in addressing connectivity challenges and creating new opportunities for expanding AI capabilities and demands," said Becky Loop, Director of Platform Architecture at Apple. "Apple has a long history of pioneering and collaborating on innovations that drive our industry forward, and we're excited to join the UALink Board of Directors.".
UALink Consortium Board Chair Kurtis Bowman welcomed the three companies to the board. "The continued support for the Consortium will help accelerate adoption of this key industry standard, defining the next-generation interconnect for AI workloads," he said.
UALink is described as a "high-speed, scale-up accelerator interconnect technology that advances next-generation AI cluster performance." The consortium tasks itself with developing the technical specifications for the interconnects that reside between AI accelerators, or GPUs.
