Broadcom Delivers Industry’s First 51.2-Tbps Co-Packaged Optics Ethernet Switch Platform for Scalable AI Systems
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Thursday, March 14, 2024
The product integrates eight silicon photonics based 6.4-Tbps optical engines with Broadcom’s best-in-class StrataXGS® Tomahawk®5 switch chip.
Key Points:
- The product integrates eight silicon photonics based 6.4-Tbps optical engines with Broadcom’s best-in-class StrataXGS® Tomahawk®5 switch chip.
- The optical interconnect is critical for both front-end and back-end networks in large scale generative AI clusters.
- Today, pluggable optical transceivers consume approximately 50% of system power and constitute more than 50% of the cost of a traditional switch system.
- “Our partnership with Broadcom to design systems with highly integrated co-packaged optics will enable a more power efficient future network.