A UK startup says it can cut data centre network power by 81% by replacing every electrical switch with light
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UK startup Oriole Networks is deploying the world’s first pure photonic AI network at scale, claiming 81% core power reduction and sub-1% GPU idle time. The system pairs with AMD hardware inside the UK’s £50m ARIA Scaling Inference Lab.
For decades, the networks inside data centres have run on electrical switches. They are power-hungry, generate enormous heat, and are increasingly the bottleneck that limits how fast AI systems can process and exchange data. Oriole Networks, a UK startup, says it has a fix: replace every electrical switch in the core network with nanosecond-scale optical circuits that route data as photons instead of electrons.
On Monday, Oriole announced that it will deploy what it describes as the world’s first large-scale AI system powered by a pure photonic network, as part of the UK’s ARIA Scaling Inference Lab. The system pairs Oriole’s PRISM networking platform with AMD Instinct GPUs and AMD...
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