Wednesday, April 17, 2024

Video: Intel's Silicon Photonics Roadmap

Amit Nagra, VP and GM, Silicon Photonics Product Division from Intel, shares an update on progress in silicon photonics, wafer manufacturing, and 1.6T components following this year's OFC24:- Intel's strategic shift in the pluggable market: Instead of providing the full transceiver module, Intel is now focusing on supplying the key chipsets that go into these modules. Interestingly, five out of the six key pieces of silicon that go into a module...

Intel scales its neuromorphic system

Intel provided an update on its large-scale neuromorphic systems based on its human brain-inspired Loihi 2 processors.A new large-scale system (code named Hala Point ), which is deployed at Sandia National Laboratories, achieves over 10 times more neuron capacity and up to 12 times higher performance compared with its first-generation large-scale research system (code named Pohoiki Springs).Intel said its Hala Point represents a significant advancement...

Australia's nbn tests Nokia's next-gen PON

Australia's NBN Co. completed the world’s first live network demonstration of multiple next-generation PON technologies using Nokia's fiber access platform.The tests demonstrated 10G, 25G, 50G and 100G broadband speeds over nbn's existing fiber network.Nokia’s Lightspan platform is designed to support a full range of PON technologies, from GPON to 100G PON.The company says the tests show how operators can easily enhance 10G PON to symmetrical 25G...

SiTime debuts MEMS Integrated Clock Chip for Data Centers

SiTime unveiled its Chorus family of clock generators for AI datacenter applications. The company says its Chorus  family of clock-system-on-a-chip (ClkSoC) devices achieves a tenfold increase in performance while occupying only half the size of traditional standalone oscillators and clocks. This innovative design integrates clock, oscillator, and resonator technologies into a single chip, streamlining system clock architecture and reducing...

Colt Data Centre Services expands in West London

Colt Data Centre Services (Colt DCS) has acquired land next to its existing site at Hayes, West London, with the goal to make the campus one of the largest in the UK.West London is a key development location for data centres spurred on by the wider adoption of the public cloud by UK businesses and is becoming one of the most prominent submarkets in Europe. London's standing as one of the world's leading financial, media and business hubs remains...