Copackaged optics have officially found their killer app - of course it's AI

Power is becoming a major headache for datacenter operators as they grapple with how to support ever larger deployments of GPU servers - so much so that the AI boom is now driving the adoption of a technology once thought too immature and failure-prone to merit the risk. We're talking, of course, about co-packaged optical (CPO …

[An_Old_Dog]

Couldn't they Just Upgrade

... TOSLink? My Sony PS/2 has already got the connector...

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOSLINK)

[jake]

Re: Couldn't they Just Upgrade

Don't be silly!

You can't sucker the rubes without AI these days, and TOSLink has no provision for AI.

[ecofeco]

Re: Couldn't they Just Upgrade

Beat me to it.

Rubes indeed.

[peteC7x]

Well, not entirely true….

Because at some point you need to plug the cable to some patch panel or whatever. So, that claim that this is the end of pluggable cables is toral bull crap to sell over priced crap that at some point soon will be a loss once this whole bullshit AI fever comes to a sweet loving end. CAN HARDLY WAIT!

[jake]

Re: Well, not entirely true….

Remember, the fraudsters managed to sucker the rubes with "serverless" ...

[ecofeco]

Re: Well, not entirely true….

Have we forgotten "lights out?

[Herring`]

Imagine

if you took all the money and inventiveness that's being used for AI and instead did something useful

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Imagine

Tsk ts tsk, that's heresy..

:/

[jake]

Re: Imagine

Might be called heresy by the shamans suckering the rubes, but in the course of human events, calling something "heresy" has rarely made a concept untrue.

[Jou (Mxyzptlk)]

Re: Imagine

Geocentrism is the only truth!

[Richard 12]

Re: Imagine

The turtle moves

[ecofeco]

Re: Imagine

What kind of crazy socioleest commie talk is that?!

[Yet Another Anonymous coward]

Re: Imagine

>if you took all the money and inventiveness that's being used for AI and instead did something useful

Porn

High frequency trading

Cat pictures

[Yet Another Anonymous coward]

Faster?

Light slows down in a fibre like a pensioner in the middle lane, compared to a proper bit screeching along a nicely matched transmission line

[cmac]

LPO?

No mention of LPO as an alternative that solves the "blast radius" problem?