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Richard Ho, Head of Hardware at OpenAI, opened his keynote at the Optica Executive Forum in Los Angeles with a clear message: the future of AI will be determined not...

At the Optica Executive Forum in Los Angeles, Meta’s Drew Alduino laid out the sheer scale and complexity of building AI infrastructure at hyperscale, emphasizing that while optical technologies like...

LOS ANGELES — The scale of optical connectivity required for future AI infrastructure may be far larger than the industry currently expects, according to Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder and CTO of...

NVIDIA introduced its BlueField-4 STX reference architecture at GTC 2026, targeting a fundamental bottleneck in AI infrastructure: storage performance for long-context, agentic AI workloads. The new design focuses on accelerating...

Frore Systems announced a $143 million Series D funding round, reaching a $1.64 billion valuation as demand for advanced cooling solutions intensifies alongside the global buildout of AI infrastructure. The...

Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, confirmed on X that the company has brought up an NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 system for validation inside its cloud infrastructure. Nadella wrote that Azure...

A group of optical connectivity vendors including Ciena, Coherent, Marvell, Molex, Samtec, and TeraHop announced the formation of the Open CPX MSA, a new industry initiative focused on defining common...

NewPhotonics unveiled the NPG10240, a 3.2 Tbps DR8 transmitter-on-chip photonic integrated circuit (PIC) featuring integrated lasers, 448 Gbps modulators, and the company’s OSPic optical signal processor. The device targets next-generation...

VIAVI Solutions announced the TestCenter D2 1.6T Appliance, a new Ethernet test platform designed to validate next-generation AI data center networks operating at 1.6T speeds. The system targets hyperscalers, cloud...

Lightmatter introduced vClick Optics, a detachable fiber array unit for co-packaged optics that targets one of the toughest manufacturing problems in advanced AI packages: how to connect fiber to photonic...

Marvell Technology announced an expanded portfolio of 1.6 Tbps optical digital signal processors (DSPs) aimed at accelerating the transition from 800G to 1.6T connectivity in AI-driven data center networks. The...

Marvell Technology and Mojo Vision announced a long-term collaboration to develop micro-LED-based optical interconnects aimed at next-generation AI data center infrastructure. The effort targets short-reach connectivity between accelerators, memory pools,...

Lightmatter introduced the Passage L20 optical engine, a 6.4 Tbps (per direction) photonic module designed to accelerate deployment of high-bandwidth optical interconnects for next-generation AI data centers. The new platform...