The catalyst: Qualcomm-Cornelis AI partnership.

WAYNE, Pa., September 14, 2026--Cornelis, a provider of high-performance networking solutions, today introduced Active Compute Fabric, an open architecture spanning scale-up and scale-out networking with programmable compute built into the fabric. The architecture marks the company’s entry into scale-up networking and extends technology already powering AI and HPC workloads in hundreds of data cen

As reported: “Cornelis Expands into Scale-Up Networking with Active Compute Fabric, $205M in Funding, and Qualcomm Collaboration at AI Infra Summit” — Yahoo Finance, 2026-09-14.