The Next Platform
  • Home
  • Compute
  • Store
  • Connect
  • Control
  • Code
  • AI
  • HPC
  • Enterprise
  • Hyperscale
  • Cloud
  • Edge
Latest
  • [ August 29, 2025 ] With AI Boom, Dell’s Datacenter Biz Is Finally Bigger Than Its PC Biz Compute
  • [ August 27, 2025 ] Nvidia Sets The Datacenter Growth Bar Very High As Compute Sales Dip AI
  • [ August 27, 2025 ] IBM And AMD Tag Team On Hybrid Classical-Quantum Supercomputers Compute
  • [ August 26, 2025 ] Intel’s “Clearwater Forest” Xeon 7 E-Core CPU Will Be A Beast Compute
  • [ August 25, 2025 ] NeuReality Wants Its NR2 To Be Your Arm CPU For AI Compute
  • [ August 22, 2025 ] Nvidia Tapped To Accelerate RIKEN’s FugakuNext Supercomputer HPC
  • [ August 21, 2025 ] Google Is Already Using The Future AI Network You Might Get In 2028 Connect
  • [ August 21, 2025 ] A Data Architecture For The Age Of AI Store
HomeSuperNova

SuperNova

Connect

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. …

AI

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. …

Connect

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. …

About

The Next Platform is part of the Situation Publishing family, which includes the enterprise and business technology publication, The Register.

TNP  offers in-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Read more…

Newsletter

Featuring highlights, analysis, and stories from the week directly from us to your inbox with nothing in between.
Subscribe now

  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Email the editor
  • About
  • Contributors
  • Contact
  • Sales
  • Newsletter
  • Books
  • Events
  • Privacy
  • Ts&Cs
  • Cookies
  • Do not sell my personal information

All Content Copyright The Next Platform