TechTechPotato | [35] Ian Interviews Mark Wade, CEO Ayar Labs @TechTechPotato | Uploaded March 2024 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
One of the limits of how big AI scales in the future is how fast the hardware can talk to each other. Ayar Labs, a silicon valley based startup, has an in-package optical interconnect solution, involving optics-in-silicon for faster chip-to-chip connectivity. I spoke with CEO Mark Wade about the technology, the roll-out, and what it all means!
ayarlabs.com
[00:00] Intro
[00:45] Who or what is Ayar Labs?
[01:26] What does Optical IO bring to the table?
[02:48] What workloads need optical IO?
[04:18] Bandwidth? Latency? Power?
[06:28] Why hasn't it been done?
[08:47] Standards for Optical IO
[10:43] What is the product?
[12:10] How does that compare to electrical?
[15:29] What about power?
[17:33] Composability?
[20:46] Who are your clients?
[23:03] Are all your customers in AI?
[24:29] Future roadmaps?
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Welcome to the TechTechPotato (c) Dr. Ian Cutress
Ramblings about things related to Technology from an analyst for More Than Moore
#optical #ayarlabs #light
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More Than Moore, as with other research and analyst firms, provides or has provided paid research, analysis, advising, or consulting to many high-tech companies in the industry, which may include advertising on TTP. The companies that fall under this banner include AMD, Applied Materials, Armari, Ayar Labs, Baidu, Facebook, IBM, Infineon, Intel, Lattice Semi, Linode, MediaTek, NordPass, ProteanTecs, Qualcomm, SiFive, Supermicro, Tenstorrent, TSMC.
One of the limits of how big AI scales in the future is how fast the hardware can talk to each other. Ayar Labs, a silicon valley based startup, has an in-package optical interconnect solution, involving optics-in-silicon for faster chip-to-chip connectivity. I spoke with CEO Mark Wade about the technology, the roll-out, and what it all means!
ayarlabs.com
[00:00] Intro
[00:45] Who or what is Ayar Labs?
[01:26] What does Optical IO bring to the table?
[02:48] What workloads need optical IO?
[04:18] Bandwidth? Latency? Power?
[06:28] Why hasn't it been done?
[08:47] Standards for Optical IO
[10:43] What is the product?
[12:10] How does that compare to electrical?
[15:29] What about power?
[17:33] Composability?
[20:46] Who are your clients?
[23:03] Are all your customers in AI?
[24:29] Future roadmaps?
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Ending music: youtube.com/watch?v=2N0tmgau5E4
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Welcome to the TechTechPotato (c) Dr. Ian Cutress
Ramblings about things related to Technology from an analyst for More Than Moore
#optical #ayarlabs #light
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More Than Moore, as with other research and analyst firms, provides or has provided paid research, analysis, advising, or consulting to many high-tech companies in the industry, which may include advertising on TTP. The companies that fall under this banner include AMD, Applied Materials, Armari, Ayar Labs, Baidu, Facebook, IBM, Infineon, Intel, Lattice Semi, Linode, MediaTek, NordPass, ProteanTecs, Qualcomm, SiFive, Supermicro, Tenstorrent, TSMC.
![[35] Ian Interviews Mark Wade, CEO Ayar Labs](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/oJ7Nl_XhmOM/hqdefault.jpg "[35] Ian Interviews Mark Wade, CEO Ayar Labs
One of the limits of how big AI scales in the future is how fast the hardware can talk to each other. Ayar Labs, a silicon valley based startup, has an in-package optical interconnect solution, involving optics-in-silicon for faster chip-to-chip connectivity. I spoke with CEO Mark Wade about the technology, the roll-out, and what it all means!
http://www.ayarlabs.com
[00:00] Intro
[00:45] Who or what is Ayar Labs?
[01:26] What does Optical IO bring to the table?
[02:48] What workloads need optical IO?
[04:18] Bandwidth? Latency? Power?
[06:28] Why hasnt it been done?
[08:47] Standards for Optical IO
[10:43] What is the product?
[12:10] How does that compare to electrical?
[15:29] What about power?
[17:33] Composability?
[20:46] Who are your clients?
[23:03] Are all your customers in AI?
[24:29] Future roadmaps?
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Ending music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N0tmgau5E4
Welcome to the TechTechPotato (c) Dr. Ian Cutress
Ramblings about things related to Technology from an analyst for More Than Moore
#optical #ayarlabs #light
More Than Moore, as with other research and analyst firms, provides or has provided paid research, analysis, advising, or consulting to many high-tech companies in the industry, which may include advertising on TTP. The companies that fall under this banner include AMD, Applied Materials, Armari, Ayar Labs, Baidu, Facebook, IBM, Infineon, Intel, Lattice Semi, Linode, MediaTek, NordPass, ProteanTecs, Qualcomm, SiFive, Supermicro, Tenstorrent, TSMC.")
![[33] Ian Interviews: Renee James, Ampere Computing CEO](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/oVYRYMgPgio/hqdefault.jpg "[33] Ian Interviews: Renee James, Ampere Computing CEO
Arm silicon in the data center is picking up steam, and the only company making chips for everyone to buy and use is Ampere Computing. CEO Renee James built the company after spotting the need in the market, and now employees over 1100 people to enable that vision through the Ampere Altra and AmpereOne product lines. Renee has had extensive experience with Intel, and in particular her mentor, Andy Grove, championed her positioning of energy efficient data center processors. In this rare interview, I asked Renee about the state of Arm silicon in this space, why Ampere differs, and the scope of custom cores and machine learning.
[00:00] Intro
[00:43] What/Who is Ampere Computing?
[03:05] What does Ampere Computing do?
[04:46] What are Amperes customer markets?
[07:28] Why develop a custom Arm core?
[11:41] How has Ampere succeed where others failed?
[17:10] Do customers trust Ampere?
[20:11] Does it matter that cloud is making its own silicon?
[23:27] Has machine learning changes the outlook?
[26:08] IPO?
[28:25] What does the future look like?
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Welcome to the TechTechPotato (c) Dr. Ian Cutress
Ramblings about things related to Technology from an analyst for More Than Moore
#ampere #arm #custom
More Than Moore, as with other research and analyst firms, provides or has provided paid research, analysis, advising, or consulting to many high-tech companies in the industry, which may include advertising on TTP. The companies that fall under this banner include AMD, Armari, Baidu, Facebook, IBM, Infineon, Intel, Lattice Semi, Linode, MediaTek, NordPass, ProteanTecs, Qualcomm, SiFive, Supermicro, Tenstorrent, TSMC.")
