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Co-packaged optics brings an operating-model question to AI networking
The 2026 sampling, production and supply announcements make serviceability, energy boundaries and replacement responsibility central to evaluation.
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Interconnects / analysis
Before PhotonLink's ECOC unveiling, the measurement boundary is still open
Coherent plans a September 21 PhotonLink unveiling. Its announcement leaves engineers with questions about configurations, workloads, and energy accounting.
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FLARE brings memory into a photonic-computing research architecture
The August paper addresses stored parameters and intermediate states; the available evidence does not support a whole-system efficiency ranking.
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Lightmatter's 1.6 Tbps-per-fiber sampling targets interconnect density
The March Passage announcement concerns data movement; its evaluation platform keeps measured bandwidth separate from efficiency targets.
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