Hot Interconnects<\/a> conference, he said: \u201cThe path to energy-efficient optics is constrained by high-volume manufacturing,\u201d stressing that advanced optics packaging remains difficult and risky without proven production scale.\u00a0<\/p>\n\u201cWe are nonreligious about CPO, LPO, whatever it is. But we are religious about one thing, which is the ability to ship very high volumes in a very predictable fashion,\u201d Bechtolsheim said at the investor event. \u201cSo, to put this in quantity numbers here, the industry expects to ship something like 50 million OSFP modules next calendar year. The current shipment rate of CPO is zero, okay? So going from zero to 50 million is just not possible. The supply chain doesn\u2019t exist. So, even if the technology works and can be demonstrated in a lab, to get to the volume required to meet the needs of the industry is just an incredible effort.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re all in on liquid cooling to reduce power, eliminating fan power, supporting the linear pluggable optics to reduce power and cost, increasing rack density, which reduces data center footprint and related costs, and most importantly, optimizing these fabrics for the AI data center use case,\u201d Bechtolsheim added.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo what we call the \u2018purpose-built AI data center fabric\u2019 around Ethernet technology is to really optimize AI application performance, which is the ultimate measure for the customer in both the scale-up and the scale-out domains. Some of this includes full switch customization for customers. Other cases, it includes the power and cost optimization. But we have a large part of our hardware engineering department working on these things,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Both technologies will likely find a role in future AI and optical networks, experts say, as both promise…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":230384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[745,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-230383","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-computing","8":"tag-computing","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115211899015643794","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}