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Intel has demonstrated an optical chiplet co-packaged with a CPU capable of supporting 4 Tbps data links to feed the increasing datacenter bandwidth requirements of AI and high performance computing applications.
Pluggable optical transceiver modules of the type already widely used in datacenter clusters can increase reach, but are costly and consume too much power at the scale required, at least according to Intel, whereas a co-packaged solution can support higher bandwidths with greater power efficiency and lower latency because of its proximity to the CPU.
"The ever-increasing movement of data from server to server is straining the capabilities of today's datacenter infrastructure, and current solutions are rapidly approaching the practical limits of electrical I/O performance," Thomas Liljeberg, Intel's senior director for Product Management and Strategy in Integrated Photonics Solutions, said in a statement.
In terms of power efficiency, Intel claims the OCI chiplet consumes 5 pico Joules of energy per bit, whereas pluggable optical transceiver modules consume about 15 pJ/bit.
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