The PHOENIX project is pleased to highlight it sister project ADOPTION — an EU-funded initiative under the Horizon Europe programme that is closely aligned with our mission to advance photonics and next-generation optical technologies.
ADOPTION (Advanced Co-Packaged Optics Enabling High Efficiency Artificial Intelligence Workload and Cloud Computing) is working toward a low-power, low-cost solution for intra–data centre networks, employing co-packaging of optical (CPO) transceivers with the packet switch chip.
Hyperscale data centres are the backbone of our digital society but account for nearly 1% of global electricity consumption. Scaling their capacity efficiently is becoming increasingly challenging. ADOPTION aims to overcome this by:
- Achieving switch capacities beyond 204.8 Tb/s with port speeds up to 6.4 Tb/s
- Developing silicon photonics CPO transceiver engines with power efficiency around 3 pJ/bit
- Introducing innovative two-part packaging to simplify processes and boost yield
- Demonstrating new optical network architectures for hyperscale data centres and AI clusters.
With these innovations, ADOPTION is targeting a reduction in optical interface costs to below 50 cents per Gb/s while advancing the EU’s sustainability and digital transformation goals.
The project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No. 101070178.
Learn more about ADOPTION on the official website: https://www.ucc.ie/en/adoption-project/
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