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Nvidia, AMD, And Intel Help Stuff The Coffers At Ayar Labs

December 11, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

Everybody wants to get rich in AI these days, and if you can’t do it by investing in the compute engine makers or the hyperscalers and cloud builders, then the next best thing to put your money into is probably some form of optical I/O. …

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Copper Wires Have Already Failed Clustered AI Systems

September 13, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan 7

It has become a well known fact these days that the switches that are used to interconnect distributed systems are not the most expensive part of that network, but rather it is the optical transceivers and fiber optic cables that comprise the bulk of the cost. …

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What Would You Do With A 16.8 Million Core Graph Processing Beast?

September 1, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 10

If you look back at it now, especially with the advent of massively parallel computing on GPUs, maybe the techies at Tera Computing and then Cray had the right idea with their “ThreadStorm” massively threaded processors and high bandwidth interconnects. …

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How Do You Meet The Bandwidth Demands Of HPC And AI System Architectures?

October 24, 2022 David Gordon 0

Sponsored Post: Analyst firm Gartner believes AI will remain one of the top workloads driving infrastructure decisions through to 2023 as more organizations push pilot projects into the production stage. …

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Nvidia Shows What Optically Linked GPU Systems Might Look Like

August 17, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

We have been talking about silicon photonics so long that we are, probably like many of you, frustrated that it already is not ubiquitous. …

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With $130 Million In Hand, Ayar Labs Looks To Commercialize Optical I/O

April 26, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

When it comes to co-packaged optical interconnects, there are two camps: Lasers in and lasers out. …

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Talking Silicon Photonics Signal And Noise With Andy Bechtolsheim

March 10, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

There is a lot of chatter this week about optical communications with the OFC2022 conference being held in San Diego. …

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HPE Taps Ayar Labs To Add Silicon Photonics To Slingshot Interconnect

February 24, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

There are so many barriers to capacity increases in high performance computing systems that it would take a long time to rattle them off. …

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How – And When – Optical I/O Will Make Disaggregated Systems Better

July 13, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

As many of you know from reading The Next Platform, we are firm believers that eventually we will get disaggregated and composable systems that drive up the sharing of hardware resource across many workloads and therefore drive down the cost of hardware to support workloads. …

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First Silicon for Photonics Startup with DARPA Roots

January 29, 2019 Michael Feldman 2

Ayar Labs, a silicon photonics startup based in Emeryville, California, is getting set to tape out its electro-optical I/O chip, which will become the basis of its first commercial product. …

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