the.com/interconnect
The unglamorous handshake that makes separate things behave like one.
means To link two or more systems, parts, or networks so they can communicate or share resources.
from From Latin inter (between) plus connectere (to bind together) — literally a binding between things, formalized in 19th-century engineering and later claimed by computing.
Chip worldOn-chip interconnects route signals between billions of transistors.
Internet rootsThe word internet itself means interconnected networks.
SupercomputersTheir speed often hinges on interconnect, not raw processors.