On his screen, a progress bar had frozen at 99%. It was the final verification run for the "Titan Neural Core," a new class of AI accelerator that promised to change the world—or at least, change the stock price of his company, Aether Systems.
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The problem was speed. Aether was trying to push the Titan card to its absolute limit. PCIe 5.0 had been a comfortable ride, but PCIe 6.0? That was the wild west. They were jumping from 32 GT/s to 64 GT/s. It was a doubling of bandwidth that made signal integrity engineers wake up screaming in the night. On his screen, a progress bar had frozen at 99%