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Re:Nvidia to Acquire Mellanox for $6.9B by patrickg_zill on Monday March 11, 2019 @01:18PM (#19360747)
Infiniband is actually a standard and Mellanox became the go to supplier. However in the early stages there were many more suppliers.
Re:Nvidia to Acquire Mellanox for $6.9B by baruch on Monday March 11, 2019 @05:52PM (#19363209)
Intel bought one of the IB players and for all I know killed it.
Re:Nvidia to Acquire Mellanox for $6.9B by jabl on Monday March 11, 2019 @06:38PM (#19363559)
Intel bought Qlogic, made some proprietary enhancements to their IB tech, which they now sell under the omni-path brand.