Taipei, June 4 -- Nvidia Corp has announced that it has started shipping its next-generation co-packaged optics (CPO) switches, developed in collaboration with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), as the US tech giant seeks to address data transmission and power consumption challenges in AI data centres, according to a report by Focus Taiwan.

Speaking at Nvidia GTC Taipei on Wednesday (local time), Gilad Shainer, Senior Vice President of Networking at Nvidia, said the company has begun supplying its new Spectrum-X CPO switch to select partners.

According to the report, the switch incorporates Nvidia's most advanced CPO technology and delivers throughput of up to 400 terabits per second, he said, adding that production capacity...