The beachfront and beyond

AI, the next industrial revolution has begun, and with it the need for optical connectivity for Accelerated Computing. With AI workloads driving an explosion in east-west traffic inside data centers, silicon photonics has reached an inflection point. We are seeing deployment of commercial co-packaged optics products in scale-out networks. Photonic scale-up and scale-in architectures are next. Conventionally, silicon photonics has been confined to the role of an optical connectivity chiplet. But that model is limiting, especially for a technology with the potential to reshape how we think about system architecture at the package level. In this keynote, Dave will take us beyond the beachfront of conventional thinking. What happens when you unleash silicon photonics from its current constraints? How do you redefine the package when you’re no longer bound by legacy assumptions? And most critically, how do you scale bandwidth, HBM capacity and die count without compromise? We’re entering a new era of photonic integration. The architectural possibilities are wide open, and the time to explore them is now.