Accelerating the Development and Application of Optical I/O in AI/ML Architectures with NVIDIA

Revolutionizing Chip-to-Chip Communication
Ayar Labs is disrupting the traditional performance, cost, and efficiency curves of the semiconductor and computing industries by delivering up to a 1000x improvement in interconnect bandwidth density at one-tenth the power. We use standard CMOS processing to develop high-speed, high-density, low-power optical interconnect “chiplets” and lasers to replace traditional electrical I/O.
Cloud
→ Disaggregated Architectures
→ Glue-less interconnects
→ Memory semantic fabrics
AI/HPC
→ Chip-Chip low latency
→ Bandwidth
→ HBM Capacity
Connectivity
→ Disaggregated base stations
→ RF-Optical I/O
→ Digital Beam Forming
Intelligent Edge
→ RF Sensing
→ Phased Array Radar
→ AI at the edge
In-Package Optical I/O: Unleashing Innovation
Discover how Ayar Labs’ optical I/O solution is the key to unleashing innovation in AI, scaling cloud and HPC, launching new aerospace systems, enabling the next wave of 5G, and more.
Technical Brief:
Optical I/O Chiplets Eliminate Bottlenecks to Unleash Innovation
This technical brief examines the evolution of optical communications in computing systems and the transition to ‘Phase Two’ of Moore’s Law through in-package optical I/O (OIO). Increasing demand for artificial intelligence, high-performance computing, aerospace data collection and communication, hyper-scale data centers, disaggregated memory, and storage has led to the development of a variety of powerful, high-throughput, system-on-chip (SoC) solutions that redefine traditional computing architectures.
Download this technical brief to learn how Ayar Labs TeraPHY™ Optical I/O Chiplets are enabling better bandwidth and better latency chip to chip communications at lower power.
Industry’s First Terabit Optical Link
Technical Paper
An Error-free 1 Tbps WDM Optical I/O Chiplet and Multi-wavelength Multi-port Laser

In this paper we demonstrate a 128 Gbps/port (8-λ×16 Gbps/λ) natively error-free transmission across eight optical ports using a 8-port, 8-λ/port WDM remote laser source and a pair of monolithically integrated CMOS optical I/O chiplets with 4.96-5.56 pJ/bit optical Tx+Rx chiplet energy efficiency.
Video Demonstration
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