At the Optical Fiber Communication Conference 2024, Intel demonstrated what it calls a revolutionary milestone in integrated photonics technology for high-speed data transmission: a fully integrated optical.
The big picture: Intel has developed a fully integrated optical compute interconnect (OCI) chiplet, which it compares to transitioning from horse-drawn carriages to cars and trucks in terms of data transmission. The OCI addresses a gap in optical input/output solutions, where some don’t deliver enough reach while others have the reach but at too high a power cost.
At the Optical Fiber Communication Conference 2024, Intel demonstrated what it calls a revolutionary milestone in integrated photonics technology for high-speed data transmission: a fully integrated optical compute interconnect (OCI) chiplet co-packaged with an Intel CPU and running live data. It is designed to enable co-packaged optical input/output (I/O) in emerging AI infrastructure for data centers and high-performance computing applications.
Its entrance into the market coincides with the explosion of AI applications and the tremendous need for bandwidth amid the current less-than-optimal sources of compute fabric, the company says.
