Aries Interop

Extending interoperability leadership with PCIe® 6.x testing

Enabling Seamless Plug-and-Play Interoperability

Reduce design challenges and accelerate time-to-market for AI servers and racks

  • Rigorous testing of Aries Retimers with all major root complexes and 50+ endpoints
  • PCIe® robustness validated with varying channel insertion loss budgets in chip-to-chip, box-to-box, and rack-to-rack topologies
  • Extensive testing with software suite for advanced Link, Fleet, and RAS telemetry and diagnostics
  • Cloud-Scale Interop Lab expands to Taiwan to facilitate closer collaboration with ODMs and accelerate AI platform deployments

 

Interop Bulletins

Systems and Test Suites Dedicated to Interop

Example Tests

PCIe® Loop Tests

  • Secondary Bus Reset
  • Forward Error Correct (FEC)
  • Link Retrain
  • EQ Redo
  • Speed Change
  • L1 PM
  • Warm Reboot
  • Low-power state (L0p)
  • Flow Control Unit (Flit)

Additional Tests

  • Hot Unplug/Plug
  • Power Cycle Tests
  • Lane Margining

Scaling Agentic AI With CXL Memory Expansion and Extended PCIe 6 Signal Reach

Agentic AI is changing what it means to build intelligent infrastructure. Unlike traditional AI workloads that run discrete inference jobs, agentic AI systems must reason across multi-step tasks, coordinate across distributed memory pools, and respond to real-time inputs. Meeting these demands requires more than compute alone. It requires a rethinking of how compute, connectivity, and memory… Read more

Computex 2026 Demo: How Linear Optics Enables Longer Link Reach, Lower Latency for Scorpio Smart Fabric Switches

Astera Labs demonstrated PCIe® Gen 6 connectivity of Scorpio Smart Fabric Switches enabled by a low-power, ultra low-latency LPO OSFP module at Computex 2026.Two years ago, Astera Labs exhibited the first successful demonstration of end-to-end retimed optical PCIe connectivity. This week, we’ve advanced the conversation again.Just a month removed from the announcement of our Scorpio™… Read more

AI Your Way. Purpose-built Rack-scale Connectivity.

This week I will complete 850 days at Astera Labs. It is significant because the same day I will fly out to be part of the A-team representing our beloved company at Computex in Taiwan.The past few weeks and months have been characterized by a flurry of activity with a massive product launch, various public facing events, growth manifested in expansion along every direction, from physical… Read more

Astera Labs Expands Taiwan Operations to Accelerate Global AI Infrastructure Buildout

Expanded Cloud-Scale Interop Lab and growing engineering presence to strengthen AI system integration with leading AI platform providers and Taiwan system manufacturersTAIPEI, Taiwan—June 3, 2026—Astera Labs, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALAB), a leader in semiconductor-based connectivity solutions for rack-scale AI infrastructure, today announced a significant expansion of its Taiwan operations… Read more

Astera Labs to Host Press Conference, Live Demos, and Technical Talks at Computex 2026

TAIPEI, Taiwan, May 26, 2026—Astera Labs, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALAB), a leader in semiconductor-based connectivity solutions for rack-scale AI infrastructure, will host press and industry analysts at Computex 2026 in the company’s room at the Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center, Hall 1 (TaiNEX 1), Room 303, third floor.WHAT: Astera Labs will use its Computex program to highlight the company’s… Read more

Astera Labs Extends Leadership in Open, AI Scale-Up Networking with New 320 Lane Scorpio X-Series Smart Fabric Switch

Now Shipping to Leading Hyperscalers, Scorpio Smart Fabric Switch Family Delivers Breakthrough Accelerator Utilization Through Memory-Semantic Based Open and Platform-Specific ProtocolsNews Highlights:Largest open, memory-semantic fabric switch: The Scorpio™ X-Series 320 Lane AI fabric switch, shipping today, supports increased scale-up cluster sizes with low latencyIntelligent… Read more

Astera Labs Reports First Quarter 2026 Financial Results

Record quarterly revenue of $308.4 million, up 14% QoQ and up 93% year-over-yearMarket-leading PCIe 6 AI fabric and signal conditioning portfolio delivered strong growth during Q1Now shipping newly announced Scorpio™ X-Series 320-lane AI Fabric switch and expanded Scorpio P-Series PCIe 6 switch family supporting 32 to 320 lanesSAN JOSE, CA, U.S. – May 5, 2026 – Astera Labs,… Read more

Scorpio 320 Lane Fabric Switch Demo

For today’s AI workloads, maximizing token performance means ensuring every GPU cycle is spent computing, not waiting on data.In this video, Steven Liao demonstrates how Astera Labs’ Scorpio 320 Lane fabric switch maximizes token performance by delivering single-hop, line-rate peer-to-peer connectivity to GPUs, which eliminates data movement bottlenecks that stall GPU utilization.TThe… Read more

Scorpio X-Series 320 Lane: Largest Open, Memory-Semantic Fabric Switch

Get your first look at the new Scorpio™ X-Series 320-Lane AI Fabric Switch! The frontier models driving today’s most demanding AI applications require connectivity infrastructure that keeps pace with the accelerators powering them.High-radix AI fabric switch replaces multiple legacy switches to enable larger scale-up cluster sizes in a single hop and reduce overall latencyHardware-accelerated… Read more

Scorpio P-Series 32 to 320 Lane: Broadest Family of PCIe 6 Fabric Switches

As GPU clusters scale for frontier AI, the fabric matters. Performance, scalability, and resilience all depend on how CPUs, GPUs, NICs, storage, and memory connect—and that connection is PCIe. This is exactly what Scorpio™ P-Series Fabric Switches are built for. Introducing the expanded Scorpio P-Series PCIe fabric switch family—now spanning 32 to 320 lane configurations—designed… Read more