On Tuesday, Cornelis Networks, an Intel $INTC spin-off founded in 2020 and still backed by Intel’s venture capital arm, introduced a groundbreaking suite of networking hardware and software designed to interconnect up to 500,000 artificial intelligence (AI) chips. This innovation addresses a longstanding bottleneck in AI data centers: while AI computational chips deliver extreme processing speeds, the network connections between them lag, limiting data flow and overall system performance.