Image Generated With GPT Image 2.0 AI Compute Is Only As Fast As The Data Feeding It For decades, semiconductor progress was closely associated with increasing compute capability. More transistors, higher clock speeds, greater parallelism, and increasingly specialized architectures enabled processors to perform more operations with each generation. AI has accelerated this progression dramatically. Modern AI accelerators can execute enormous numbers of mathematical operations in parallel, but as computational capability continues to grow, another challenge is becoming just as important: keeping those compute engines continuously supplied with data. In other words, AI hardware does not simply need to compute faster; it also needs to move enormous volumes of data efficiently between memory, processors, accelerators, servers, and increasingly, entire clusters. As a result, data movement is becoming one of the