FIC Global leads switch from electrons to photons for AI Factories

As artificial intelligence continues to reshape the global economy, fiber optic connections have emerged as a key enabler of the scale and speed AI factories require. A little-known, but critical component — optical transceivers — is at the core, and FIC Global Inc., a leading expert in packaging and installing semiconductors on optical modules, is drawing on over 16 years of expertise to take the lead in this space.

The full potential of AI will only be unleashed when data can move at light speed among AI cluster networks," remarked Leo Chien, Chairman of FICG. "That's why we've spent over a decade building the process leadership and technologies to make the most advanced optical transceivers for AI factories."

Enabling breakthrough capabilities for AI factories
The AI factories of the future require high speed and low latency at scale, along with greater energy efficiency to temper significant power demands. But electrical connections are limited in terms of performance and data transmission. Using fiber optics to interconnect AI clusters offers:

• Unmatched bandwidth and low latency
• Energy efficiency
• Infrastructure scalability.

As the key component, optical transceivers convert electrical signals into light data for transmission over fiber optic cables, significantly accelerating data movement between compute nodes. This year, the new benchmark for data transmission speeds is now 1.6 terabits (T) per second, and companies like FICG are innovating to double speeds in the future.