As artificial intelligence infrastructure scales into configurations of staggering complexity, the limiting factor has quietly shifted from raw computational power to the speed and efficiency of data movement between chips. Interconnect technology — the layered system of protocols, switches, and signal-conditioning components that carries information across servers and memory — has emerged as the decisive variable in AI data center performance. In an era when a single rack can consume nearly 100 kilowatts and GPU clusters span tens of thousands of cards, the architecture of connection has beco