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Ayar Labs: Revolutionizing Data Center Interconnects with Optical Technology

You know, data centers are getting pretty wild these days, especially with all this AI stuff exploding. For a long time, ...
insideHPC

The Next Big Interconnect Technology Could Be Plastic

[CONTRIBUTED THOUGHT PIECE] Data centers are in the midst of a rapid transformation to support the increasing number, complexity and size of AI and HPC workloads. As part of that transformation, large ...
Business Wire

Nubis Communications Announces Industry’s Highest Density and Lowest Power Optical Interconnect

NEW PROVIDENCE, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nubis Communications, Inc. launched today from stealth mode, revealing a breakthrough optical technology platform and its first product. The company announced ...
Electronic Design

Backplane Optical Interconnects Deliver on Speed and Distance

Moving data at gigabit throughput is becoming more of a challenge for copper. Running digital signals with clock rates over 20 GHz for any distance requires fiber. Fiber is already used for system ...
Business Wire

Avicena Announces Modular LightBundle™ Optical Interconnect Platform with > 1Tbps/mm I/O density and < 1pJ/bit

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Avicena, headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA, is announcing its new scalable LightBundle™ interconnect platform at OFC 2025 in San ...
Science Daily

New polymer materials make fabricating optical interconnects easier

Researchers have developed new polymer materials that are ideal for making the optical links necessary to connect chip-based photonic components with board-level circuits or optical fibers. These ...
ExtremeTech

Intel teases 1.6Tbps optical interconnect, asks us to forget about Light Peak

Ahead of the Intel Developer Forum next month, Intel and Corning are teasing a new optical interconnect technology capable of 1.6 terabits per second. Dubbed MXC, the interconnect is designed to ...
Electronic Design

Multi-Terabit Interconnect Solutions for AI/ML Data Centers

How data centers are evolving to meet the challenges of AI/ML computing. Pros and cons of common copper and optical interconnect solutions. Benefits of RF transmission over plastic cable (e-Tube) for ...
Nasdaq

Broadcom Delivers Industry’s First 51.2-Tbps Co-Packaged Optics Ethernet Switch Platform for Scalable AI Systems

PALO ALTO, Calif., March 14, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO) announced today that it has delivered Bailly, the industry’s first 51.2 terabits per sec (Tbps) co-packaged optics ...
SDxCentral

Intel Labs Tackles Silicon Photonics, Optical Interconnects

A new research center established by Intel Labs this week aims to drive faster, more efficient compute interfaces by substituting electricity for light. These bottlenecks manifest in two forms: ...
Nasdaq

MaxLinear and ColorChip Announce Collaboration on a Complete Line of Optical and Active Electrical Interconnect Solutions

“MaxLinear’s innovative Keystone 5nm DSP has enabled us to build the industry’s lowest power 13W 800G-DR8 optical modules, which will be on display at OFC 2023, and their KGD bare die solutions have ...