MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Lightmatter, photonic (super)computing company, today announced what the c ompany said is a foundational advancement in laser architecture: Very Large Scale Photonics (VLSP). Embodied in the Guide light engine, “this breakthrough creates the industry’s most integrated laser platform supporting unprecedented bandwidths—moving laser manufacturing from manual assembly lines toward foundry production,” Lightmatter […]

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The first company that can make a UALink switch with high radix – meaning lots of ports – and high aggregate bandwidth across those ports that can compete toe-to-toe with Nvidia’s NVSwitch memory fabric and NVLink ports is going to make a lot of money. …

Upscale AI Nabs Cash To Forge “SkyHammer” Scale Up Fabric Switch was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

No, we did not miss the fact that Nvidia did an “acquihire” of AI accelerator and system startup and rival Groq on Christmas Eve. …

Is Nvidia Assembling The Parts For Its Next Inference Platform? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

But virtue of its scale out capability, which is key for driving the size of absolutely enormous AI clusters, and to its universality, Ethernet switch sales are booming, and if the recent history is any guide, we can expect Ethernet revenues will climb exponentially higher in the coming quarters as well. …

Pushed By GenAI And Front End Upgrades, Ethernet Switching Hits New Highs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.