The arrival of artificial intelligence has caused a great stir worldwide, for a large number of reasons, but this time we are not going to talk about the negative part of it, but about how its development has forced many companies to try to achieve new technologies that can change the course of things. In this case, Intel has presented the first chip of interconnection optics fully integrated that wants to change how I/O connections work.
There are many negative points that we can highlight about artificial intelligence, such as the uses it has or the fact that in a few years it could become the technology that consumes the most energy worldwide, but we cannot deny that it is a turning point for many new developments that are currently emerging. The need for companies to integrate AI with the best possible performance is forcing them to develop a series of new products that increase the performance that specialized hardware is capable of offering.
Intel’s new technology that wants to change I/O connections
Although he is not currently going through his best moment, it must be made clear that Intel is a company that has contributed greatly to developing what we currently know as computer systems, and this time, they want to once again position themselves as leaders with a new creation. This company has made a breakthrough in the photonics segment by unveiling the world’s first fully integrated optical computing interconnect for emerging AI markets.
It is increasingly difficult to adapt traditional connections to hardware related to artificial intelligence, since as we well know, it requires an extremely high speed that many current systems are not capable of offering. This is where the new comes in chiplet OIC of Intelwhich they indicate is capable of increasing bandwidth, reducing energy consumption and increasing the range of connections, something that is key in high-performance AI infrastructure.
In general, this new development seeks to offer the ability to transmit data at a speed that we have not seen until now, and the tests that have been done with the first implementation indicate that it supports a bidirectional data transfer of 4 terabits per second.
The advantages it offers far exceed traditional connections
In general, when we see a new technology emerge that can completely revolutionize the market, we always think about how it is going to be implemented, since making a change of this type can be quite expensive, but taking into account that it is a huge leap in In terms of transfer speed, many companies will be willing to implement it.
As indicated from Intelhis chiplet OCI It delivers significantly higher bandwidth data transfer via co-packaged optical input/output and supports up to 64 channels at 32 Gbps data transmission rates. As we have indicated previously, the greatest advantages offered by this new form of interconnection are greater bandwidth, greater energy efficiency, much lower latency and a broader range.
As we well know, optical technology is one of the biggest leaps that we can find if we refer to data transfer speed, a clear example of the change involved in going from an electrical system to an optical one was the arrival of fiber optics, that completely changed how network connections worked and that today continues to increase to offer the highest possible speed.
