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 […]
NNSA Deploys Cornelis CN5000 Fabric for ‘Lynx’ Cluster at Livermore
July 24, 2025 by
Cornelis Networks announced its CN5000 is being deployed by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration to power the 952-node “Lynx” cluster at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Why Is Drivenet’s Fabric Scheduled Ethernet the Best InfiniBand Alternative?
July 23, 2025 by
[SPONSORED GUEST CONTENT] Scheduled Ethernet is emerging as a viable alternative to InfiniBand for AI networking. Why? Because of its ability to offer comparable performance but with greater flexibility and cost-effectiveness.
AI Forcing New Technology for Data Center Network Interconnectivity
July 10, 2025 by
“…. a new era of unpredictable traffic growth is upon us, driven by the emergence – and soon, dominance – of artificial intelligence. A recent survey found that data center ….”
