Optical Interconnectivity At 224 Gbps

The technology is reaching the current limit, where large data centers are looking for solutions at a time when AI is demanding more and more internal and also external bandwidth. Until now, optics in racks and data centers have been the dominant tonic with the so-called silicon photonic dominating, but this is about to change. And it is that TSMC along with Avicena are going to create the next era, to which NVIDIA, AMD and Intel will surely joi…

Optical Interconnectivity At 224 Gbps

AI is generating so much traffic that traditional copper-based approaches for moving data inside a chip, between chips, and between systems, are running out of steam. Just adding more channels is no longer viable. It requires more power to drive signals, and the distance those signals can travel without excessive loss is shrinking. Mike Klempa, product marketing specialist at Alphawave Semi, digs into the impact of linear pluggable optics (LPOs)…