Good November morning to you! It was a hefty HPC-AI news week last week, here’s a rapid ….
HPC News Bytes 20251103: 4 Exascale HPC’s Coming to National Labs; NVIDIA, Nokia and 6G; Intel Said to Be in SambaNova Talks
November 3, 2025 by
Achieving AI Scale-Up Supremacy with Co-Packaged Optics
October 21, 2025 by
AI architectures are approaching an inflection point, and that is why a new generation of scale-up architectures is needed. Enabling thousands of XPUs to operate as one massive chip for trillion-parameter AI models ….
Ayar Labs Appoints Vivek Gupta Chief Strategy Officer
October 9, 2025 by
SAN JOSE – Oct. 9, 2025 – Ayar Labs, a co-packaged optics (CPO) company, today announced that Vivek Gupta has joined as the company’s first Chief Strategy Officer (CSO). “This is a momentous time for the company, as we scale to commercial production and strengthen customer partnerships,” said Mark Wade, CEO and co-founder of Ayar Labs. […]
Scintil Photonics Raises $58M
September 9, 2025 by
GRENOBLE, France, Sept. 09, 2025 — Scintil Photonics today announced the completion of a $58 million (€50M) Series B funding round led by Yotta Capital Partners and NGP Capital, with participation from NVIDIA. The round includes new participation from BNP Paribas Développement, alongside existing investors including Supernova Invest, Bpifrance Digital Venture, Innovacom, Bosch Ventures, Applied […]
Ayar Labs and Alchip in Co-Packaged Optics Partnership
September 8, 2025 by
SAN JOSE – Sept. 7, 2025 – Co-packaged optics (CPO) company Ayar Labs, and ASICS company Alchip Technologies announced a strategic partnership to accelerate AI scale-up infrastructure. The collaboration fulfills hyperscaler demands for advanced AI accelerators and platforms that deliver enhanced performance, efficiency, and scalability. The partnership brings together Ayar Labs’ CPO technology, Alchip’s packaging […]
Building Jupiter: An Exascale Supercomputer, and a Room to Put It In
September 4, 2025 by
Connecting 24,000 GPUs mounted in 125 racks, with 36,000 high performance network cables for a machine which uses 17MW running full tilt – and getting it all running smoothly as a single system is hard – but doing all that ….
OpenLight Raises $34M for AI Data Center Photonics
August 27, 2025 by
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 26, 2025 — OpenLight, a Photonic Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (PASIC) chip design and manufacturing company, today announced the close of its oversubscribed $34M Series A. The round is co-led by Xora Innovation and Capricorn Investment Group. Other participants include Mayfield; Juniper Networks, now part of HPE; Lam Capital, the corporate venture […]
The AI Superfactory: NVIDIA’s Multi-Data Center ‘Scale Across’ Ethernet
August 22, 2025 by
Ahead of Hot Chips 2025, NVIDIA today announced Spectrum-XGS Ethernet, a scale-across technology for combining multiple, distributed data centers into “unified, giga-scale AI super-factories.”
Terabit Ethernet: Rambus Launches Multi-Channel Engine MACsec-IP-364 (+363)
August 22, 2025 by
Aug. 21, 2025 — Rambus has introduced the Multi-Channel Engine MACsec-IP-364 (+363), built for next-generation Ethernet. The company said it delivers full line-rate MACsec and optional IPsec support for 1.6T and 3.2T Ethernet ports, offering a scalable and configurable solution for securing high-speed data traffic. Capabilities Full Line-Rate Throughput: Supports 1.6T in 3nm and 3.2T […]
Teramount Raises $50M for Optical Connectivity from AMD, Hitachi, Samsung, Koch
July 30, 2025 by
Jerusalem, July 29, 2025 — Teramount, a company focused on fiber-to-chip interconnect solutions, announced it has raised $50 million in financing led by new investor Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT). Existing investors Grove Ventures and several new strategic investors, including AMD Ventures, Hitachi Ventures, Samsung Catalyst Fund and Wistron, joined the round. To meet AI’s escalating […]
