Silicon photonics leader Lightmatter launched volume production of Passage interposers. The optical substrate routes data between 48 chips at 3 Tbps per mm, slashing interconnect power draw by 10x.
⚡️ Engineers demonstrated a silicon photonic tensor processor evaluating matrix multiplications at the speed of light within nanoscale optical waveguides.
💡 Energy Efficiency: The optical matrix consumes merely 0.02 pJ per FLOP, reducing thermal dissipation by 100x relative to traditional silicon GPUs.
Silicon photonics leader Lightmatter launched volume production of Passage interposers. The optical substrate routes data between 48 chips at 3 Tbps per mm, slashing interconnect power draw by 10x.
Slashing AI training facility cooling and energy overhead by 40-50%.
Regulatory frameworks and infrastructure readiness remain critical.
Synthesizing entire datacenter racks into unified coherent virtual processors.