"I think the first thing we need to get past is the limitations of copper. We pretty much understand that every time we bump up the speeds of the SerDes, the wires get shorter and shorter. And so, we're constraining and constraining and constraining our ability to compose and mix …

“If you think about the fiber interconnects just a few years back, it would be impossible to implement fiber in a distributed way. Now, by miniaturizing PICs and integrating, the optical device becomes part of a multi-function system in package enabling decreased SWaP without sacrificing performance.”