Q1-2025-Waverider Pulse: Optical Connectivity Special

This quarter, we’re spotlighting Alphawave Semi’s latest PAM4 and Coherent-lite DSP launches—purpose-built for AI data centers and hyperscale campus networks. We’re also tracking progress in optical connectivity, with developments across PCIe and chiplet integration for optical systems.

Analysis: Interoperability and Implementation Challenges of PCIe Over Optical

In this webinar, Alphawave Semi and Arm discuss the future of Al data networks and how UCle-enabled chiplet IP subsystems with multi-protocol SerDes 1/0 connectivity are enabling enhanced Al computing to be delivered.

 

 

 

 

 

Summary: PCIe for Connecting Disaggregated Generative AI Systems

PCIe is perfectly suited to enable the disaggregated systems of AI, including the distributed multiplication functionality of value for LLMs. In this blog, we give an overview on PCIe evolutions and how they can be leveraged to meet the future needs of generative AI.

Deep Dive: The Role of Advanced Chiplet Architectures in AI Data Centers

Today, optical connectivity is typically established via pluggable modules in servers and switches. Chiplet architectures also open the door to co-packaged optics (CPO), offering the potential for optical connectivity right to the xPU and switch.

 

 

 

Live Webinar: Advancing AI – The Role of HBM in the Chiplet Ecosystem Era

Join Alphawave Semi’s Archana Cheruliyil, as she delves into the rapid evolution of data consumption, the transformative impact of deep learning and HBM4/the chiplet’s role in advancing this – includes demonstrations.

 

 

 

 

 

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