The "copper wall" limiting AI chip performance is facing a breakthrough as NcodiN secures €16 millio...
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The article introduces a hardware-level breakthrough in photonic interconnects to bypass the 'copper wall,' representing a structural shift in AI silicon architecture and compute efficiency.
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The "copper wall" limiting AI chip performance is facing a breakthrough as NcodiN secures €16 million in Seed funding to accelerate its nanolaser photonic interposer. This "world's smallest laser" technology, dubbed NConnect, enables dense integration on silicon and promises unparalleled energy efficiency, targeting under 0.1 pJ/bit. By replacing traditional electrical interconnects with light, this innovation allows for unprecedented scalability (>10,000 devices/mm²) and higher performance for next-generation AI, particularly for memory-intensive LLMs and edge computing. This marks a fundamental shift toward sustainable, high-bandwidth optical computing hardware.