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[chocolatebunny]

Aren't Broadcom network switching SOC the industry standard?

[kijiki → chocolatebunny]

Yes, but those are fixed function designs like Trident or Tomahawk (yes, they name their switch chips after missiles).

When Broadcom uses the term SOC, they mean "Switch on a Chip" to differentiate their single chip designs from older multi chip architectures.

SiByte was MIPS-based, more like an NPU than an (Broadcom term) SOC.