Atos, tech giants join forces on ethernet consortium

The logo of Atos is pictured at the Eurosatory international defence and security exhibition in Villepinte, near Paris, France June 13, 2022. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier/ File photo

(Reuters) - A group of tech industry actors including Meta, Microsoft and Intel and France's Atos have teamed up to form an ethernet consortium in a bid to build up networks suited for artificial intelligence, Atos announced on Wednesday.

The consortium will work on minimizing communication stack changes while maintaining and promoting ethernet interoperability, is said in a statement.

Other founding members include AMD, Arista, Broadcom, Cisco, and HPE.

(Reporting by Victor Goury-Laffont, editing by Tassilo Hummel)