Marvell’s $3.8 Billion Play For Next-Gen AI Data Center Market

Marvell's $3.8B acquisitions of Celestial AI and XConn target optical interconnects and CXL switching for next-gen AI ...
SiliconANGLE

Optical chip interconnect startup Ayar raises $155M to bring light to AI workloads

Ayar Labs Inc., a startup that’s developing optical interconnects that can transmit data between computer chips via light, said today it has closed on a hefty late-stage $155 million funding round led ...

NewPhotonics® Introduces Industry-First Serviceable Near-Packaged Optics (NPO) Chiplet Solution with Interoperability for 1.6T

NewPhotonics® Ltd., the award-winning fabless semiconductor designer delivering innovative all-optical domain connectivity solutions for data center interconnect, today introduced NPC50503 1.6T NPO ...
IEEE Spectrum on MSN

Optical Interposers Could Start Speeding Up AI in 2025

Fiber-optic cables are creeping closer to processors in high-performance computers, replacing copper connections with glass.
sciencex

A new kind of optical interconnect for data centers

In data centers today, there is a constant need for speed. And it's not only inside computer data servers, where one might think it would be. Computing power, capacity, and speed has been increasing ...
PC Gamer

Intel claims its optical interconnect chiplet technology is 'like going from using horse-drawn carriages to using cars and trucks'

At the Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC) 2024, Intel gave us a particularly interesting glimpse at what could be the future of chip and interconnect design. The Optical Compute ...
Optics

Chip giants again back Ayar Labs for optical interconnects

Ayar Labs, the Silicon Valley startup at the forefront of high-speed optical interconnect development, says it has raised another $155 million in venture support as it looks to accelerate a move to ...
Electronic Design

Chip Interconnects are Going Optical

Why AI needs high-speed interconnects. How multichannel fiber meets AI demands. How multichannel fiber support fits on a chip. Though copper provides high-speed connectivity, it has limitations. One ...
Nature

Optical Networks-on-Chip

Optical Networks-on-Chip (ONoC) represent a paradigm shift in on-chip communication architectures, integrating optical interconnects to overcome the limitations of traditional electronic networks. By ...
CRN

Darpa To Fund Optical- Interconnect Research

The effort aims to build chip-size modules that interconnect high-speed microprocessors at aggregated data rates of up to a terabit per second. "We are looking beyond cabled rack-to-rack technology to ...
Electronic Design

Chiplet Delivers On-Chip Optical Connectivity

Why is the optical compute interconnect (OCI) chiplet important? How is Intel’s OCI chiplet implemented? What applications benefit from an OCI chiplet? Intel’s Integrated Photonics Solutions (IPS) ...