By eWEEK Staff
Publication Date: 2026-02-12 15:05:00
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AI is running into a data center bottleneck, and Cisco wants to be the fix.
Cisco announced the Silicon One G300, a 102.4 Tbps switching chip, plus new systems and optics aimed at scaling AI data centers for what it calls the agentic era.
Cisco’s move is a reminder that AI buildouts are becoming an infrastructure problem, not just a model problem. The company is positioning G300-powered switching platforms as part of a coordinated stack meant to keep large AI environments fed with data as they scale.
What Cisco actually announced
According to Cisco, the Silicon One G300 is 102.4 Tbps switching silicon designed for massive AI cluster buildouts and will power new Cisco Nexus 9000 and Cisco 8000 systems.
On the specs side, Cisco’s G300 materials say the processor is optimized for high-bandwidth AI networking…
