High-Performance Connectivity for Data Infrastructure

First presented at the AI Hardware and Edge AI Summit 2023, Alphawave Semi CTO Tony Carusone explains how data center compute and connectivity are being transformed by the rise of generative AI. This presentation offers an overview of the industry landscape, highlights the most recent trends in data connectivity and how chiplet-powered connectivity IP and custom silicon are redefining the data processing for AI workloads.

About the speaker:

Tony Chan Carusone is Chief Technology Officer at Alphawave Semi. Tony has been a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto since 2001. He has well over 100 publications, including 8 award-winning best papers, focused on integrated circuits for digital communication. Tony has served as a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society and on the Technical Program Committees of the world’s leading circuits conferences. He co-authored the classic textbooks “Analog Integrated Circuit Design” and “Microelectronic Circuits” and he is a Fellow of the IEEE. Tony has also been a consultant to the semiconductor industry for over 20 years, working with both startups and some of the largest technology companies in the world.
Tony holds a B.A.Sc. in Engineering Science and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto.