Alphawave Semi announced its collaboration with InnoLight Technology to bring a low power, low latency linear pluggable optics (LPO) demonstration to OFC 2024. Operating at 64 Gbps per lane, this demonstration showcases Alphawave Semi's PCIe 6.0 subsystem (Controller + PHY) with InnoLight's LPO OSFP optics, breaking down barriers to disseminated networking and enabling connectivity at the datacenter scale. By delivering a complete PCIe 6.0 subsystem featuring Alphawave Semi's controller IP matched with its proven PAM4 SerDes PHY and by collaborating with InnoLight as an optics supplier, Alphawave Semi is fostering an ecosystem for accelerating the deployment of optical connectivity and memory coherency solutions, which are essential for scaling AI workloads in next-generation data center infrastructure.

The Alphawave Semi PCIe Controller + PHY subsystem is an extremely power-efficient, low-latency, and highly reliable interface IP, having been built off the industry?s most successful PAM4 SerDes IP. It is available on the most advanced technology nodes. In AI and high-performance computing (HPC) systems where memory performance is key, the Alphawave Semi PCIe 6.0 Subsystem can be expanded to support CXL 3.0 with a PCIe and CXL Controller and enable memory coherency at the data center level.

InnoLight offers a wide range of low power, low latency 400G, 800G, and 1.6T LPO solutions for AI workloads at data center scale, with a silicon photonics platform, with expected capabilities to support PCIe Gen 6 and beyond optical connectivity. InnoLight is also a founding member of LPO-MSA and is actively working with the industry ecosystem to promote wide adoption of LPO solutions for AI networking and computing applications.