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Intel Demonstrates First Fully Integrated Optical I/O Chiplet
Intel’s optical compute interconnect chiplet is expected to revolutionize high-speed data processing for AI infrastructure. SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nIntel’s optical compute interconnect chiplet is expected to revolutionize high-speed data processing for AI infrastructure.\n\n\n SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nWhat’s New: Intel Corporation has achieved a revolutionary milestone in integrated photonics technology for high-speed data transmission. At the Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2024, Intel’s Integrated Photonics Solutions (IPS) Group demonstrated the industry’s most advanced and first-ever fully integrated optical compute interconnect (OCI) chiplet co-packaged with an Intel CPU and running live data. Intel’s OCI chiplet represents a leap forward in high-bandwidth interconnect by enabling co-packaged optical input/output (I/O) in emerging AI infrastructure for data centers and high performance computing (HPC) applications.\n\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240626986416/en/Intel Corporation’s Integrated Photonics Solutions (IPS) Group has demonstrated the industry’s first fully integrated optical compute interconnect (OCI) chiplet co-packaged with an Intel CPU and running live data. Intel’s OCI chiplet enables co-packaged optical input/output in emerging AI infrastructure for data centers and high performance computing applications. (Credit: Intel Corporation)\n“The ever-increasing movement of data from server to server is straining the capabilities of today’s data center infrastructure, and current solutions are rapidly approaching the practical limits of electrical I/O performance. However, Intel’s groundbreaking achievement empowers customers to seamlessly integrate co-packaged silicon photonics interconnect solutions into next-generation compute systems. Our OCI chiplet boosts bandwidth, reduces power consumption and increases reach, enabling ML workload acceleration that promises to revolutionize high-performance AI infrastructure.”\n--Thomas Liljeberg, senior director, Product Management and Strategy, Integrated Photonics Solutions (IPS) Group\n\n\nWhat It Does: This first OCI chiplet is designed to support 64 channels of 32 gigabits per second (Gbps) data transmission in each direction on up to 100 meters of fiber optics and is expected to address AI infrastructure’s growing demands for higher bandwidth, lower power consumption and longer reach. It enables future sc...