Copper is too slow for AI. The era of silicon photonics (pre-packaged fiber optic between chips) is finally here.
Optical switches on an AI data center consume a staggering 10% of the total GPU compute power.
“An AI supercomputer with 400,000 GPUs is actually a 24-megawatt laser”
what the fuck lol
Tgis was wild. Probably wont be used but this is wild..
Fucking wild.
Cool! The basic technology here is the microring resonator, which can also be a very effective sensor... That sensitivity seems like a bit of a double-edged sword here, because it makes temperature control critical to operation.
Driving energy efficiency innovation.
