Salience Labs Wants to Scale Up AI with Silicon Photonics Optical Switch
One is based on micro-electrical-mechanical systems (MEMS) mirror technology, where arrays of tiny mechanical mirrors spin to create circuits linking strands of fiber optic cables. The OCS allows for clusters to be reconfigured on the fly, and also allows up to 9,216 TPUs to be lashed together in a coherent memory cluster. NEXTPLATFORM AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/nextplatform/article/desktop/b'); }); Lumentum, which has partnered with Nvidia for various optical technologies, also sells MEMS-based OCS gear and has aspirations outside of telecom and in the AI datacenter.
- ▪One is based on micro-electrical-mechanical systems (MEMS) mirror technology, where arrays of tiny mechanical mirrors spin to create circuits linking strands of fiber optic cables.
- ▪The OCS allows for clusters to be reconfigured on the fly, and also allows up to 9,216 TPUs to be lashed together in a coherent memory cluster.
- ▪NEXTPLATFORM AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/nextplatform/article/desktop/b'); }); Lumentum, which has partnered with Nvidia for various optical technologies, also sells MEMS-based OCS gear and has aspirations
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