Inside optical and the battle for scale – how the AI industry is racing to integrate photonic interconnects

Tom's Hardware
Jul 23, 2026, 10:22 am88 ptsTrending
AI hardware has been a pretty simple game for years: Whose GPU has the most FLOPS, the most memory, or the fastest clock? But as hyperscalers want more performance from the same size of facilities, who controls the fabric between the chips is becoming another question frequently asked – in large part because…

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