While GPUs and other accelerators might grab all the headlines around AI hardware, the giant machine learning models behind the AI boom would not be possible without high-speed optical interconnects to join these chips together. Photonic integrated circuits (PICs), which use semiconductor manufacturing techniques to shrink optical systems onto chips the size of a fingernail, are a key technology pushing these interconnect systems to ever-higher throughputs and making expansion of the modern data center possible.
In this webinar, IDTechEx Senior Analyst Sam Dale will discuss:
- What is a PIC?
- The role of PICs, including silicon photonics, in data center transceivers
- How the growth in AI accelerator demand is shaping the PIC transceiver market
- A roadmap for the future of datacom transceivers
- An insight into IDTechEx's ten-year forecasts for the PIC market