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- Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) showed off the chip industry’s first fully integrated optical compute interconnect chiplet on Wednesday for use in artificial intelligence.
- The chiplet, known as OCI, is co-packaged with an Intel CPU and is running live data, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company said in a statement.
- The OCI chiplet provides support for 64 channels of 32GB per second worth of data transmission on 100 meters worth of fiber optics, allowing for AI workloads to be done at higher bandwidths with lower power consumption and longer reach. Intel said the new OCI chiplet uses roughly one-third (5 pico-Joules per bit) compared to other optical transceiver modules.
- “The ever-increasing movement of data from server to server is straining the capabilities of today’s data center infrastructure, and current solutions are rapidly approaching the practical limits of electrical I/O performance,” Intel executive Thomas Liljeberg said. “However, Intel’s groundbreaking achievement empowers customers to seamlessly integrate co-packaged silicon photonics interconnect solutions into next-generation compute systems.”
- Intel shares fell 0.6% in late afternoon trading on Wednesday.