SAN JOSE, Calif. — January 22, 2026 — Leads & Copy — Astera Labs, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALAB) has begun initial production of its Scorpio X-Series, developed in collaboration with hyperscalers to support scale-up networking. These products are now shipping in initial production volumes. The company also announced an expanded portfolio roadmap that will feature new capabilities, including support for increased radix, platform-specific protocols, in-network computing, Hypercast technology, and optical connectivity.
Astera Labs is accelerating investment in the Scorpio X-Series roadmap to capitalize on the high-growth market opportunity, as close collaboration with hyperscale customers and initial platform deployments have revealed new opportunities for the merchant scale-up switching market, which is projected to reach $20 billion by 2030.
According to Astera Labs, next-generation AI workloads are changing scale-up connectivity requirements. Single clusters are now scaling to hundreds of thousands of AI accelerators that support expanding context windows and multi-turn agentic workflows. Each hyperscaler approaches these challenges with unique architectural approaches optimized for their specific workload profiles. These diverse requirements demand varied connectivity solutions—from different radix configurations to multiple platform-specific protocols, optical connectivity enablement, and advanced traffic management capabilities.
Thad Omura, Chief Business Officer at Astera Labs, said hyperscalers need flexible connectivity portfolios that can address varied architectural approaches as they scale to larger cluster sizes and deploy more complex AI workloads.
To address the expanded market opportunity, Astera Labs is scaling the Scorpio X-Series portfolio in collaboration with hyperscalers, AI platform providers, and neo-cloud leaders. The broadened roadmap will encompass five feature areas:
Multiple device configurations across the Scorpio X-Series family will support varied cluster sizes, enabling hyperscalers to optimize fabric topology for their specific workload requirements. The series will also support customized interconnect protocols used by hyperscalers to optimize workloads and infrastructure. In addition, the series will feature in-network compute that performs operations directly in the fabric switch, offloading data-intensive work from GPUs to accelerate AI workloads and enable more efficient scaling.
Astera Labs’ Hypercast technology, an enhancement to standard data distribution protocols, will reduce GPU-to-GPU communication overhead and improve overall GPU utilization. The Scorpio X-Series will incorporate photonic switch-to-accelerator links that will enable multi-rack deployments, allowing domains to scale to thousands of GPUs.
Astera Labs provides rack-scale AI infrastructure through connectivity solutions. The company’s Intelligent Connectivity Platform integrates CXL®, Ethernet, NVLink, PCIe®, and UALink™ semiconductor-based technologies with the company’s COSMOS software suite. Astera Labs’ custom connectivity solutions business complements its standards-based portfolio.
For more information about Scorpio X-Series Smart Fabric Switches, visit the Scorpio Smart Fabric Switches product page.
Source: Astera Labs
