What Is Silicon Photonics?
Silicon Photonics is a combination of two of the most important inventions of the 20th century—the silicon integrated circuit and the semiconductor laser. It enables faster data transfer over longer distances compared to traditional electronics, while utilizing the efficiencies of Intel’s high-volume silicon manufacturing.
Intel Is Driving Evolution of the Data Center
Intel has always been at the forefront of this exciting new technology, announcing the world’s first hybrid silicon laser nearly a decade ago. But what truly makes our role in silicon photonics unique is not only our efficient, high-volume silicon manufacturing, but our dedication to furthering research in this field. Investing in silicon photonics enables future data center bandwidth to grow, driving evolution of form factors, speed (100G today, 400G tomorrow), and optical integration platforms.
Removing Networking Bottlenecks
This new technology reduces total cost of ownership and improves the performance of data center architectures by removing networking bottlenecks that can result in stranded compute capacity. Silicon Photonics helps by:
- Enabling high-bandwidth, software-configurable access to compute and storage
- Permitting software defined infrastructure (SDI) deployments to decouple hardware and software resources for disaggregated data centers
Delivering 100G Connectivity
Intel® Silicon Photonics optical transceivers are shipping in volume now, enabling data centers to cost-effectively deploy 100 Gigabit per second solutions via:
- The only fully integrated silicon photonics solution with Intel's hybrid laser technology, featuring greater than 90% coupling efficiency1 2
- Industry-standard products adopted by cloud service providers
- High-density optical interconnects delivered with unmatched manufacturing capabilities, scale, and cost-efficiency
Intel® Silicon Photonics Products
100G PSM4 QSFP28 Optical Transceiver
Features up to 10km reach on parallel single-mode fiber, and is designed to be compliant with 100G PSM4 MSA, QSFP28, and CAUI-4 specifications.
100G CWDM4 QSFP28 Optical Transceiver
Features up to 10km reach on duplex single-mode fiber, with high speed and low-power consumption. Designed to be compliant with 100G CWDM4 and CLR4 MSA, QSFP28, and CAUI-4 specifications.3
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Thông tin Sản phẩm và Hiệu năng
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