# NVIDIA NVLink: The Scale-Up Network for AI Factories

DevFeed: [NVIDIA NVLink: The Scale-Up Network for AI Factories](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/nvidia-nvlink-the-scale-up-network-for-ai-factories-6905.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-nvlink-the-scale-up-network-for-ai-factories/>)

Author: Elizabeth Goodman

Published: 2026-07-20T15:46:28Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [NVIDIA Developer](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/nvidia-developer.md>), [NVIDIA Technical Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/nvidia-technical-blog.md>)

Topics: [NVLink](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/nvlink.md>), [AI Factory](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-factory.md>), [AI Infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-infrastructure.md>), [GPU](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/gpu.md>), [networking](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/networking.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [Nvidia](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/nvidia.md>), [datacenter](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/datacenter.md>), [Latency](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/latency.md>), [Mixture of Experts (MoE)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mixture-of-experts-moe.md>), [Inference Performance](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/inference-performance.md>), [Low Latency](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/low-latency.md>)

Tags: [agentic-ai-generative-ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agentic-ai-generative-ai.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-factory](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-factory.md>), [ai-inference](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-inference.md>), [ai-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-infrastructure.md>), [collective](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/collective.md>), [communication](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/communication.md>), [compute](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/compute.md>), [data-center](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-center.md>), [featured](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/featured.md>), [gpu](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gpu.md>), [inference](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/inference.md>), [infiniband](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infiniband.md>), [latency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/latency.md>), [low-latency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/low-latency.md>), [mixture-of-experts-moe](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mixture-of-experts-moe.md>), [networking](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/networking.md>), [nvidia](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/nvidia.md>), [nvlink](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/nvlink.md>), [production](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/production.md>), [scale](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scale.md>), [spectrum-ethernet](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/spectrum-ethernet.md>), [spectrum-x](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/spectrum-x.md>), [speed](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/speed.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/systems.md>), [vera-rubin](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vera-rubin.md>)

## AI overview

NVIDIA NVLink is presented as a scale-up networking fabric for AI factories. It provides high-bandwidth, low-latency GPU-to-GPU communication for large AI inference, training, and parallel-computing workloads, with collective-operation acceleration and rack-level resiliency.

## Source excerpt

The demand for AI continues to accelerate. Workloads are getting larger, models are becoming more complex, and there is mounting pressure to deploy AI compute...