“What they’ve done is unique in terms of the level of integration and WDM. How they did the implementation, getting the chiplet so small, comes from the Ayar Labs proprietary technology for the modulators and detectors, which are quite tightly packed compared with traditional Mach-Zehnder modulators.”

“To get to a future state of ‘AI everywhere,’ we’ll need to address the crush of data being generated and ensure enterprises are empowered to make efficient use of their data, processing it where it’s collected when it makes sense and making smarter use of their upstream resources.”