Enabling the next phase of Moore’s Law through optical connectivity
Ayar Labs solves I/O bandwidth and power bottlenecks by moving data using light.
Ayar Labs Partners with Department of Defense to Accelerate Transition to Optical I/O in Next-Gen Defense Applications
Lockheed Martin, Ayar Labs Partner to Advance Microchip Connectivity for Next Generation Sensory Systems
Ayar Labs to Accelerate Development and Application of Optical Interconnects 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
Ayar Labs Demonstrates the Industry’s First 4 Tbps Optical Solution for Chip-to-Chip Connectivity
At OFC 2023, Ayar Labs showcased its CW-WDM optical I/O solution moving data from one TeraPHY™ optical I/O chiplet to another TeraPHY chiplet at 2.048 Tbps, powered by SuperNova™ light sources. Each SuperNova light source powers 8 optical ports in each TeraPHY I/O chiplet. With 8 precisely spaced wavelengths modulated at a data rate of 32 Gbps, each optical port delivers 256 Gbps of bandwidth. Each TeraPHY chiplet therefore provides a throughput of 2.048 Tbps in each direction, or 4.096 Tbps bidirectional.
Fabricated in the GF Fotonix process, the electro-optical transceivers in the TeraPHY chiplet are fully integrated and achieve error-free data transmission without FEC (forward error correction). Perhaps more importantly, the data transfer consumes less than 5 pJ/bit, providing the power density and performance per watt needed to achieve trillions of AI connections in advanced HPC designs and more.
Have You Seen the
LIGHT?
Chip-to-chip communication is advancing at the speed of light. Are you keeping up?
Major players from all over the technology map—AI, HPC, aerospace, data center, cloud, and telecom—are developing optical I/O (OIO) next-generation solutions to meet the growing bandwidth, power, and latency requirements of the most demanding applications. Discover how HPE, Intel, Lockheed, NVIDIA, Raytheon, and others are looking to in-package optical I/O to ramp up data movement, build composable architectures, and get that next million-X speed-up in AI.
Ayar Labs: Solving Data Bottlenecks with Optical I/O
Ayar Labs is solving the critical performance bottlenecks in computing systems with optical I/O. By moving data between computer chips using light instead of electricity, systems achieve a dramatic leap in performance and latency with much lower power.
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.
Advancing Aerospace Applications with Optical I/O
Optical I/O: Designing the Future of Digital Beamforming and Antenna Arrays
Digital beamforming, which uses a large number of elements in antenna arrays, is the core technology driving advanced radar and communications systems for the aerospace industry. Phased array radar demands increasingly higher fidelity, which requires more elements generating more data. Only optical I/O from Ayar Labs provides the bandwidth density needed to deliver precise, higher fidelity phased array radar.
SWaP-Friendly Architectures Using Digital Beamforming and Optical I/O
The power and sophistication of modern radar systems is growing by leaps and bounds. These systems already offer capabilities that couldn’t have been dreamed of just a few short years ago. Furthermore, ongoing developments mean that these systems are poised to revolutionize sensing applications. However, there is a data bandwidth bottleneck that must be overcome to take full advantage of these state-of-the-art technologies.
Disaggregated System Architectures with Optical I/O
Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Ayar Labs Announce Strategic Collaboration and Investment to Develop Next-Generation Data Center Architectures and Networking with Optical I/O
Ayar Labs’ Optical I/O Enables Disaggregated Architectures for Cloud, AI, and HPC
Recent Announcements
Ayar Labs Demonstrates Industry’s First 4-Tbps Optical Solution, Paving Way for Next-Generation AI and Data Center Designs
Ayar Labs, a leader in the use of silicon photonics for chip-to-chip optical connectivity, today announced public demonstration of the industry’s first 4 terabit-per-second (Tbps) bidirectional Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) optical solution at the upcoming Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) in San Diego on March 5-9, 2023.
In the Media
OFC 2023: new launches round-up, part II
The 2023 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC) exhibition, taking place this week in San Diego, Ca., features demonstrations of the industry’s most innovative new products and optical technologies driving advances in quantum networking, AI, and data center connectivity…
Latest Resources
Ayar Labs Demonstrates Industry’s First 4-Tbps Optical Solution for Chip-to-Chip Connectivity
Here’s a peek at our 4-Tbps optical I/O solution demo as well as real customer assessment data comparing the commercial state-of-the art to Ayar Labs’ in-package optical I/O solution in terms of data throughput, power consumption, and footprint.
Webinar: Meeting the Bandwidth Demands of Next-Gen HPC & AI System Architectures
In artificial intelligence (AI), increasingly complex algorithms, larger datasets, and process-intensive workloads lend to an insatiable demand for compute, memory, and storage, as well as higher-bandwidth, lower-latency communication between these components.
Optical I/O: Designing the Future of Digital Beamforming and Antenna Arrays
Digital beamforming, which uses a large number of elements in antenna arrays, is the core technology driving advanced radar and communications systems for the aerospace industry. Phased array radar demands increasingly higher fidelity, which requires more elements...
Expanding Bandwidth and Flexibility for Telecommunications Using Optical I/O
As 5G networking transforms the telecommunications industry and next-generation 6G is close at
hand, the need for increased bandwidth (BW) across wireless and wired infrastructure components
has become obvious.