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The Money Keeps Rolling In For Optical Interconnects

October 21, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

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. …

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January 4, 2024 Tobias Mann 4

Without question, the biggest bottleneck in artificial intelligence and for a lot of HPC workloads today is bandwidth. …

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