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The key enabler is NVLink 6, a proprietary interconnect running at 3.6 TB/s per GPU with direct chip-to-chip connectivity across all 72 GPUs simultaneously, eliminating the bottleneck of traditional PCIe buses. Liquid cooling makes the thermal density physically feasible. The result is 3.6 exaflops of compute and claimed 10x inference performance over Blackwell, signaling a shift where the rack — not the chip or server — becomes the fundamental unit of AI compute. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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