Webinar: Scaling AI clusters with optical interconnects

A reminder that this Thursday, September 14th, 8:00-9:00 am PT, I will be taking part in a webcast as part of the OCP Educational Webinar Programme that explores the future of AI computing with optical interconnects.

Data and computation drive AI success, and the hyperscaler are racing to build massive AI accelerator-based compute clusters. The impact of large language models and ChatGPT has turbocharged this race. Scaling demands innovation in accelerator chips, node linkages, fabrics, and topology.

For this webinar, industry experts will discuss the challenge of scaling AI clusters. The other speakers include Cliff Grossner Ph.D., Yang Chen, and Bob Shine. To register, please click here 

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Graphene prototype modulator shown working at 10 Gigabit

• Imec's graphene electro-absorption modulator works at 10 Gigabit-per-second
• The modulator is small and has be shown to be thermally stable
• Much work is required to develop the modulator commercially

Cross-section of the graphene electro-absorption modulator. The imec work was first detailed in a paper at the IEDM conference held in December 2014 in San Francisco. Source: imec

Imec has demonstrated an optical modulator using graphene operating at up to 10 Gigabit. The Belgium nano-electronics centre is exploring graphene - carbon atoms linked in a 2D sheet - as part of its silicon photonics research programme investigating next-generation optical interconnect. Chinese vendor Huawei joined imec's programme late last year.

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Huawei joins imec to research silicon photonics

Huawei has joined imec, the Belgium nano-electronics research centre, to develop optical interconnect using silicon photonics technology. The strategic agreement follows Huawei's 2013 acquisition of former imec silicon photonics spin-off, Caliopa.

Source: Gazettabyte

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Fibre-to-the-NPU: optics reshapes the IP core router

Start-up Compass Electro-Optical Systems has announced an IP core router based on a chip with a Terabit-plus optical interface.

Asaf Somekh, vice president of marketing, showing Gazettabyte Compass-EOS's novel icPhotonics chip

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