I have wondered how Nvidia was able to be so far advanced in disaggregating compute from memory, attacking the memory wall, having their own AI fabric, and being so far advanced in the AI chip boom.
Here is what I found:
In 2019, Mellanox was acquired for $6.9 billion by Nvidia Corporation making it one of the largest mergers and acquisitions in 2019. Look at this too: http://www.mellanox.com/ethernet-storage-fabric/
Very interesting reading in my opinion.