As AI clusters grow larger, they begin to use optical interconnects for scale-out connectivity. However, the day when they require optical interconnects for scale-up connectivity may be approaching soon. To prep for that day, hyperscalers Microsoft, Meta, and OpenAI teamed up with hardware designers AMD, Broadcom, and Nvidia to develop a protocol-agnostic scale-up interconnection technology for AI clusters.
To do so, the group of companies this week established the Optical Compute Interconnect (OCI)…
