Coherent hedges its optics bets, backs CPO and NPO alike
Nvidia-backed vendor plays both sides of the optics war with one photonics stack to rule them all
News - Data Center Interconnect
The latest news on networking, cloud, and AI infrastructure
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Corning targets $10B ‘inside-the-box’ opportunity with AI-driven optics demand
CEO Wendell Weeks sees exponential adoption for co-packaged optics in AI infrastructure across scale-up and scale-out networking
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Verizon CEO boasts $1B Google dark fiber deal is tip of the AI opportunity iceberg, quiet on latest job cuts
A lot happening at Verizon
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Microsoft taps 3M’s expanded beam tech to streamline AI infrastructure connectivity
Partnership to reduce data center deployment times … and dust
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MicroLED manufacturer nabs Nvidia director to drive AI data center push
AMS-Osram, known for auto lighting, taps Ashkan Seyedi to lead new optical interconnect business
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AWS injects AT&T into Interconnect connection cadre
The integration ties AT&T’s network into AWS Interconnect service
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HPE’s Slingshot tops supercomputer interconnects, but China steals the show
China crashed the TOP500 list with a mystery interconnect powering a 2.2 exaflop CPU-only monster
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Nvidia tops Ethernet data center switch charts by revenue as sales soar
IDC labels Spectrum-X ‘the preferred network interconnect for large-scale AI training’
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AT&T CEO John Stankey exudes quiet network confidence to serve hyperscale connectivity
But remains uncertain on edge compute
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Nvidia-backed Coherent posts record quarter as AI infrastructure buildout accelerates optics demand
Optics supplier posts $1.81 billion in Q3 revenue and is on track to quadruple its indium phosphide production capacity amid supply rumblings
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Microsoft unveils microLED innovation to halve data center energy use
Researchers expect tech to be cheaper to manufacture and be more durable as it is less sensitive to environmental factors
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Keysight and Point2 testing multiterabit RF interconnects to power AI scale-up
E-Tube RF validation to examine an energy-efficient, low-latency alternative to copper
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AI inference crisis: Google engineers on why network latency and memory trump compute
Researchers propose low-latency topologies and processing-in-network as memory and interconnect bottlenecks threaten inference economic viability
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French research lab to explore microLEDs for ultra-fast data connections
CEA-Leti plans to build on Microsoft’s Mosiac work with a power-efficient alternative to copper and links
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Arista unveils 800G platforms to power AI data center interconnects
Modular 7800R4 and fixed form 7280R4 designed to support two-tier network designs