Interconnects

Data movement, packaging, and systems.

5 articles

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.

Sep 14, 20265 min read

Interconnects / analysis

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.

Sep 11, 20265 min read

Interconnects / news

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.

Sep 11, 20262 min read

Interconnects / news

NVIDIA puts Spectrum-X Photonics in production, with deployment evidence still separate

The May announcement advances co-packaged optical networking while leaving shipment timing and workload gains as distinct questions.

Sep 11, 20262 min read

Interconnects / guide

Optical interconnect is not optical compute

Moving data with light and performing a computation with light are related architectures, not interchangeable claims.

Sep 11, 20261 min read