Marvell’s $3.8B Play For Next-Gen AI Data Center Market

Marvell's $3.8B acquisitions of Celestial AI and XConn target optical interconnects and CXL switching for next-gen AI ...
Semiconductor Engineering

AI Drives Need For Optical Interconnects In Data Centers

An explosion of data, driven by more sensors everywhere and the inclusion of AI/ML in just about everything, is ratcheting up the pressure on data centers to leverage optical interconnects to speed up ...
sciencex

A new kind of optical interconnect for data centers

In data centers today, there is a constant need for speed. And it's not only inside computer data servers, where one might think it would be. Computing power, capacity, and speed has been increasing ...
TweakTown

Intel unveils world's first optical interconnect tech using photonics, 100x distance increased

Intel has just reached a revolutionary milestone in integrated photonics technology for high-speed data transmission, which will be a game-changer for AI. At the Optical Fiber Communications ...
PC Gamer

Intel claims its optical interconnect chiplet technology is 'like going from using horse-drawn carriages to using cars and trucks'

At the Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC) 2024, Intel gave us a particularly interesting glimpse at what could be the future of chip and interconnect design. The Optical Compute ...
Business Wire

ADDING MULTIMEDIA Ayar Labs, with Investments from AMD, Intel Capital, and NVIDIA, Secures $155 Million to Address Urgent Need for Scalable, Cost-Effective AI Infrastructure

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ayar Labs, the leader in optical interconnect solutions for large-scale AI workloads, today announced it has secured $155 million in financing led by Advent Global ...
SiliconANGLE

Optical chip interconnect startup Ayar raises $155M to bring light to AI workloads

Ayar Labs Inc., a startup that’s developing optical interconnects that can transmit data between computer chips via light, said today it has closed on a hefty late-stage $155 million funding round led ...
Nasdaq

Marvell to Showcase Optical Interconnect Innovations for Accelerated Infrastructure at ECOC 2024

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 20, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- ECOC 2024 – Marvell Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRVL), a leader in data infrastructure semiconductor solutions, will showcase its industry-leading ...
Business Wire

Ayar Labs to Showcase Optical Interconnect Solutions to Redefine AI Infrastructure at OFC 2024

Unveils the industry’s first CW-WDM MSA-compliant 16-wavelength light source; highlights ecosystem partner technologies enabling AI of the future “The explosive growth of AI models is breaking the ...
Nasdaq

STMicroelectronics to enable higher-performance cloud optical interconnect in datacenters and AI clusters

New silicon photonics and next-gen BiCMOS proprietary technologies bring better performance to address the coming 800Gb/s and 1.6Tb/s optical interconnects. Developing a roadmap with partners across ...
CRN

Darpa To Fund Optical- Interconnect Research

The effort aims to build chip-size modules that interconnect high-speed microprocessors at aggregated data rates of up to a terabit per second. "We are looking beyond cabled rack-to-rack technology to ...