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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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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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