With the bottlenecks between compute engines, their memories, and their networking adapters growing larger with each passing generation of AI machinery, there has never been a more pressing need to shift away from copper and towards optics in datacenter systems. …
Without question, the biggest bottleneck in artificial intelligence and for a lot of HPC workloads today is bandwidth. …
Every chipmaker has an emerging silicon photonics story but as happens only rarely, it could be a small startup that will push them to productize faster. …
Silicon photonics has been proving its worth in telco and communications but there is a much brighter opportunity photonics-based computing. …
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