Intel Corporation presented on Wednesday its optical compute interconnect (OCI) chiplet, noting it is the first fully integrated OCI chiplet in the industry.
"Intel Corporation has achieved a revolutionary milestone in integrated photonics technology for high-speed data transmission," the company announced and added the chiplet is will enable "co-packaged optical input/output (I/O) in emerging AI infrastructure for data centers and high performance computing (HPC) applications." The chipmaker noted that the chiplet can support 64 channels of 32 gigabits per second (Gbps) data transmission in each direction on up to 100 meters of fiber optics.
"Intel's groundbreaking achievement empowers customers to seamlessly integrate co-packaged silicon photonics interconnect solutions into next-generation compute systems. Our OCI chiplet boosts bandwidth, reduces power consumption and increases reach, enabling ML workload acceleration that promises to revolutionize high-performance AI infrastructure," stated Thomas Liljeberg, senior director of Product Management and Strategy at Intel'ss Integrated Photonics Solutions (IPS) Group.
