AI
The Silicon Photonics Key to Building Better Neural Networks
The commercial realization of artificial intelligence has companies scrambling to develop the next big hardware technology breakthrough for this multi-billion dollar market. …
silicon photonics
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First Silicon for Photonics Startup with DARPA Roots
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. …
Compute
The Memory Scalability At The Heart Of The Machine
Much has been made of the ability of The Machine, the system with the novel silicon photonics interconnect and massively scalable shared memory pool being developed by Hewlett Packard Enterprise, to already address more main memory at once across many compute elements than many big iron NUMA servers. …
Compute
Fujitsu Looks to 3D ICs, Silicon Photonics to Drive Future Systems
The rise of public and private clouds, the growth of the Internet of Things, the proliferation of mobile devices and the massive amounts of data that need to be collected, stored, moved and analyzed that are being generated by such fast-growing emerging trends promise to drive significant changes in both software and hardware development in the coming years. …
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Let There Be Light: The Year in Silicon Photonics
Computing historians may look back on 2016 as the Year of Silicon Photonics. …
Cloud
Intel Leverages Chip Might To Etch Photonics Future
Computing has gone through a few waves. There was human to human computing in the first few decades, and in recent years it has been dominated by human to machine computing with hyperscale consumer-facing applications, and we are on the cusp of a third wave of machine to machine computing that will swell compute, storage, and networking to untold zettabytes of traffic. …
Compute
Light at the End of the Silicon Photonics Tunnel
Silicon photonics has emerged as one of those areas of such far-reaching potential that its challenges and benefits tend to be clouded in generalities. …
Compute
Smashing The Server To Put It Back Together Better
Sometimes you have to break something to make it work right. …