Electronic Design

Optical Chiplet Interconnect Promises to Accelerate Computing Apps

Avicena’s founder and CEO breaks down the challenges of intra-chip data management and how his company’s LightBundle platform offers a solution. The growth in high-performance computing and AI in ...
SiliconANGLE

Optical chip interconnect startup Ayar raises $155M to bring light to AI workloads

Ayar Labs Inc., a startup that’s developing optical interconnects that can transmit data between computer chips via light, said today it has closed on a hefty late-stage $155 million funding round led ...
SiliconANGLE

Ayar Labs reels in another $25M for its optical chip interconnect

Ayar Labs Inc., a startup developing a new way of linking together chips in data centers, today announced that it has raised $25 million from investors. The funding was provided as an extension to a ...
Optics

Chip giants again back Ayar Labs for optical interconnects

Ayar Labs, the Silicon Valley startup at the forefront of high-speed optical interconnect development, says it has raised another $155 million in venture support as it looks to accelerate a move to ...
sciencex

A new kind of optical interconnect for data centers

In data centers today, there is a constant need for speed. And it's not only inside computer data servers, where one might think it would be. Computing power, capacity, and speed has been increasing ...
PC Gamer

Intel shows off a maths defying 8-core chip with 528 threads and optical interconnects

Despite reports it is killing Hyperthreading in its upcoming desktop processors, Intel has shown off a new chip with an unfeasible number of threads coming off each core. Traditionally, you get two ...
Electronic Design

Chiplet Delivers On-Chip Optical Connectivity

Why is the optical compute interconnect (OCI) chiplet important? How is Intel’s OCI chiplet implemented? What applications benefit from an OCI chiplet? Intel’s Integrated Photonics Solutions (IPS) ...