Industry’s first TSMC COUPE-based optical connectivity solution for next-gen AI chips displayed — Alchip and Ayar Labs show future silicon photonics device

At TSMC’s European OIP forum this week, Alchip and Ayar Labs demonstrated a fully integrated, in-package optical I/O engine built on TSMC’s COUPE platform that enables optical connectivity for next-generation AI accelerators. The solution — which combines Ayar’s silicon-photonics TeraPHY IC with Alchip’s electrical interface die and a detachable fiber connector — can deliver up to 100 Tb/s of bandwidth per accelerator and connect to other chips using the industry-standard UCIe interface. The…