https://hedgehog.cloud/disaggregated-inference-why-the-ai-network-is-the-product Disaggregated Inference: Why the AI Network Is the Product en Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:34:26 GMT 2026-06-10T00:34:26Z en https://hedgehog.cloud/disaggregated-inference-why-the-ai-network-is-the-product/disaggregated-inference-why-the-ai-network-is-the-product <div class="hs-featured-image-wrapper"> <a href="https://hedgehog.cloud/disaggregated-inference-why-the-ai-network-is-the-product/disaggregated-inference-why-the-ai-network-is-the-product" title="" class="hs-featured-image-link"> <img src="https://hedgehog.cloud/hubfs/Network%20is%20the%20Product.png" alt="Disaggregated Inference (Part 1): Why the AI Network Is the Product" class="hs-featured-image" style="width:auto !important; max-width:50%; float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;"> </a> </div> <h3 style="line-height: 1.2;"><strong><span style="color: #1f3864;">The Moment the Industry Noticed the Network</span></strong></h3> <p style="line-height: 1.5;"><span>At Computex 2026 in Taipei, the AI infrastructure industry got its first look at disaggregated inference running in production. Vista Equity Partners and Cambium Capital </span><a href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260602381676/en/Vista-Equity-Partners-and-Cambium-Launch-Vector-Core-Compute-the-Worlds-First-Inference-Cloud-Powered-by-CPUs-GPUs-and-RDUs"><u><span>launched Vector Core Compute (VC2)</span></u></a><span>, the first commercially available enterprise inference cloud built for disaggregated workloads, and SambaNova ran a </span><a href="https://sambanova.ai/blog/first-disaggregated-inference-demo-for-ai-agents-live"><u><span>live demo</span></u></a><span> from VC2’s new Los Angeles data center during Intel’s Computex keynote. The stack combined NVIDIA B200 GPUs for prefill and prompt caching, SambaNova SN40 RDUs (Reconfigurable Dataflow Units) for decode and token generation, and Intel Xeon 6 CPUs for orchestration and tool execution. Independent measurement by Artificial Analysis found the architecture at least two to three times faster than a GPU-only stack, and Together.AI signed on as the first commercial customer the same day.</span></p> <div class="hs-featured-image-wrapper"> <a href="https://hedgehog.cloud/disaggregated-inference-why-the-ai-network-is-the-product/disaggregated-inference-why-the-ai-network-is-the-product" title="" class="hs-featured-image-link"> <img src="https://hedgehog.cloud/hubfs/Network%20is%20the%20Product.png" alt="Disaggregated Inference (Part 1): Why the AI Network Is the Product" class="hs-featured-image" style="width:auto !important; max-width:50%; float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;"> </a> </div> <h3 style="line-height: 1.2;"><strong><span style="color: #1f3864;">The Moment the Industry Noticed the Network</span></strong></h3> <p style="line-height: 1.5;"><span>At Computex 2026 in Taipei, the AI infrastructure industry got its first look at disaggregated inference running in production. Vista Equity Partners and Cambium Capital </span><a href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260602381676/en/Vista-Equity-Partners-and-Cambium-Launch-Vector-Core-Compute-the-Worlds-First-Inference-Cloud-Powered-by-CPUs-GPUs-and-RDUs"><u><span>launched Vector Core Compute (VC2)</span></u></a><span>, the first commercially available enterprise inference cloud built for disaggregated workloads, and SambaNova ran a </span><a href="https://sambanova.ai/blog/first-disaggregated-inference-demo-for-ai-agents-live"><u><span>live demo</span></u></a><span> from VC2’s new Los Angeles data center during Intel’s Computex keynote. The stack combined NVIDIA B200 GPUs for prefill and prompt caching, SambaNova SN40 RDUs (Reconfigurable Dataflow Units) for decode and token generation, and Intel Xeon 6 CPUs for orchestration and tool execution. Independent measurement by Artificial Analysis found the architecture at least two to three times faster than a GPU-only stack, and Together.AI signed on as the first commercial customer the same day.</span></p> <img src="https://track.hubspot.com/__ptq.gif?a=21430285&amp;k=14&amp;r=https%3A%2F%2Fhedgehog.cloud%2Fdisaggregated-inference-why-the-ai-network-is-the-product%2Fdisaggregated-inference-why-the-ai-network-is-the-product&amp;bu=https%253A%252F%252Fhedgehog.cloud%252Fdisaggregated-inference-why-the-ai-network-is-the-product&amp;bvt=rss" alt="" width="1" height="1" style="min-height:1px!important;width:1px!important;border-width:0!important;margin-top:0!important;margin-bottom:0!important;margin-right:0!important;margin-left:0!important;padding-top:0!important;padding-bottom:0!important;padding-right:0!important;padding-left:0!important; "> AI Network AI Inference Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:34:26 GMT marc@githedgehog.com (Marc Austin) https://hedgehog.cloud/disaggregated-inference-why-the-ai-network-is-the-product/disaggregated-inference-why-the-ai-network-is-the-product 2026-06-10T00:34:26Z