Dec. 18, 2024, MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. –Photonic interconnect company Lightmatter has joined the Ultra Accelerator Link Consortium (UALink), an industry initiative focused on creating high-speed, low-latency open interconnect standards for scale-up AI systems. As a Contributor member, Lightmatter will apply its Passage technology—a 3D-stacked photonic engine—for accelerator-to-accelerator communication, enabling unprecedented performance in AI clusters. The UALink […]
Optical Interconnect: Ayar Labs Secures Investments from AMD, Intel Capital, NVIDIA in $155 Round
December 11, 2024 by
SAN JOSE – Dec. 11, 2024 – Ayar Labs, an optical interconnect company for large-scale AI workloads, today announced it has secured $155 million in financing led by Advent Global Opportunities and Light Street Capital. This brings the company’s total funding to $370 million and raises the company’s valuation to above $1 billion. The strength of the […]
CXL Consortium Releases 3.2 Specification
December 3, 2024 by
Dec. 3, 2024 – Beaverton, Ore. – The CXL Consortium, an industry standard body focused on coherent connectivity, announces the release of its Compute Express Link (CXL) 3.2 Specification. The 3.2 Specification optimizes CXL Memory Device monitoring and management, enhances functionality of CXL Memory Devices for OS and Applications, and extends security with the Trusted […]
5G-6G: BeammWave Announces Second Customer
November 15, 2024 by
Nov. 15, 2024 — Advanced communications technology company BeammWave AB has announced that an undisclosed customer has placed an order on the Advanced Development Platform (ADP1) to evaluate BeammWave’s patented digital beamforming concept and products. BeammWave is focused on communication solutions for frequencies over 24GHz and is building a solution intended for 5G and 6G, […]
Lightmatter and Amkor Technology Partner on 3D Photonics Package
November 14, 2024 by
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Nov. 14, 2024 — Photonic supercomputing company Lightmatter today announced a strategic partnership with Amkor Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMKR), a provider of semiconductor packaging and test services, to create the largest-ever 3D-packaged chip complex utilizing Lightmatter’s innovative Passage platform. This collaboration harnesses Lightmatter’s groundbreaking 3D-stacked photonic engine along with Amkor’s advanced multi-die packaging expertise to […]
NetBrain Updates Platform for AI-Powered Network Operations
November 14, 2024 by
BURLINGTON, Mass., November 14, 2024 – NetBrain Technologies, Inc., a provider of no-code network automation and dynamic mapping solutions for hybrid-cloud networks, announced the launch of Next-Gen Release 12 (R12), an update to its flagship platform. New capabilities include a GenAI LLM Co-Pilot to assess, orchestrate and summarize network automation results with natural language, and Golden Engineering […]
Eviden Announces BXI v3 Networking Technology
November 14, 2024 by
Paris – November 14, 2024 – Eviden, the Atos Group advanced computing business unit, today announces the launch of BXI v3, the third generation of the European scale-out networking technology, designed for artificial intelligence and high-performance computing workloads, set to be available in the second half 2025. AI and HPC domains are witnessing an increase in compute […]
BullSequana eXascale Interconnect V3: Intelligent Network Management Accelerates GPU Performance in AI-HPC
November 6, 2024 by
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] While the compute power of GPUs has grown significantly…, networking infrastructure has not kept up at the same rate.
F5 Announces BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes with Nvidia BlueField-3 DPUs
October 23, 2024 by
SEATTLE, OCTOBER 23, 2024 – F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) today announced the availability of BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes, an AI application delivery and security solution that equips service providers and enterprises with a centralized control point designed to streamline data traffic that flows into and out of large-scale AI infrastructures. The solution harnesses the power of […]
Optical I/O: Celestial AI Acquires Rockley Photonics Portfolio
October 22, 2024 by
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – October 23, 2024 – Photonic fabric company Celestial AI today announced the acquisition of silicon photonics intellectual property from Rockley Photonics (Rockley), including worldwide issued and pending patents. Celestial said the combination results in one of the strongest IP portfolios in the field of silicon photonics for optical compute interconnect, bringing their […]
