The Computex 2022 It has already happened and has left us a good string of news in the PC sector. AMD showed off the benefits of its future CPUs, while Nvidia appeared at the convention with its first monitor that will reach 500Hz on the screen.
However, one of the announcements that went most unnoticed is the one that has to do with Ayar Labs. Through a statement, the company has revealed that the objective is the “integration of Ayar Labs technology for (…) high-bandwidth, low-latency, ultra-low-power optical interconnects for future Nvidia products.”
A bizarre proposal that makes more sense than it seems. And it is that Nvidia seeks abandon copper-based connectivity processes for your graphics cards and that’s where Ayar Labs comes into play. The American company has hardware that uses the optical connection between the GPU chips.
This means that the speed of light is the optimal process for the future of data transmission, since the needs of bandwidth, intensive use and low consumption are aspects to be satisfied. Indeed, applications targeting Web3, AI, high-performance processes, and the metaverse will be paramount in taking advantage of optical connections.
They point out from Ayar Labs that their proposal allows the circuits to “communicate with a significantly higher bandwidth, at lower latencyover longer distances and at a fraction of the power” compared to current solutions.