Path: ...!feed.opticnetworks.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jeroen Belleman Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: Intel demonstrates first fully integrated optical I/O chiplet Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2024 20:08:21 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2024 20:05:56 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="4338ba45453dcff38dbd7c6ce349ee18"; logging-data="3625565"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18jx9fSbBaApOnbmZiLNp2F" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.13.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:vtkvM+6K4IRljDftUxygtQnUem4= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2202 On 6/28/24 14:42, Jan Panteltje wrote: > 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. > https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/intel-unveils-first-integrated-optical-io-chiplet.html > > Partial quote: > "What 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 scalability of CPU/GPU cluster connectivity and novel compute architectures, > including coherent memory expansion and resource disaggregation. > " > > > So ever faster ... > Not to worry, ways will be found to waste it all. When I see systems with multi-hundred MHz clock speeds /still/ take several seconds to respond to elementary requests... Grrr! Jeroen Belleman