Tag: co-packaged optics
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The Register: Nvidia punts silicon photonic switches to keep GPUs fed with data
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/18/nvidia_punts_silicon_photonic_switches/ Source: The Register Title: Nvidia punts silicon photonic switches to keep GPUs fed with data Feedly Summary: Power sipping bandwidth bottleneck busters – or that’s the hope, anyway GTC Nvidia is set to make available Ethernet and InfiniBand switches featuring silicon photonics with co-packaged optics to advance its vision of datacenters with…
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The Register: Copper’s reach is shrinking so Broadcom is strapping optics directly to GPUs
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/28/broadcom_optics_gpus/ Source: The Register Title: Copper’s reach is shrinking so Broadcom is strapping optics directly to GPUs Feedly Summary: What good is going fast if you can’t get past the next rack? In modern AI systems, using PCIe to stitch together accelerators is already too slow. Nvidia and AMD use specialized interconnects like…