HPC News Bytes 20251208: Marvell’s Celestial AI-Optical I/O Buy, ASML’s U.S. EUV Laser Competitor, HPC and Parkinson’s Research at SDSC

 

EUV lithography laser (credit: xLight)

A good December day to you! The world of HPC-AI generated a notably colorful array of developments last week, here’s a quick (9:12) run-through of recent news:

– Marvell in AI – as in Celestial AI

     o Co-packaged optical I/O, silicon photonic interconnects

– Lasers for extreme ultraviolet lithography, xLight FEL lasers, ASML Cymer’s LPP lasers

     o ASML, Canon, Nikon

     o China’s chip manufacturing strategy: SMEE, SiCarrier

     o Canon’s Nano Imprint Lithography (NIL)

     o China’s Xizhi Electron Beam Lithography

     o Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology’s simplified optics in EUV

– SDCS’s HPC-led research on a new path for treating Parkinson’s

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