Broadcom Inc. announced the availability of its 5nm 200G/lane optical PAM-4 DSP PHY, the Sian BCM85822, at the 49th European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC 2023). The new BCM85822 features 200G/lane serial optical interfaces, which enable optical transceiver manufacturers to cost-effectively deliver 800G and 1.6T pluggable modules and meet the growing bandwidth needs and low power consumption…
Broadcom and Tencent partner on commercialization of co-packaged optics network switch
Broadcom Inc. and Tencent Holdings Ltd. have announced a strategic partnership to accelerate the adoption of high bandwidth co-packaged optics (CPO) network switches for cloud infrastructure. Under this partnership, Broadcom will provide the 25.6-Tbps Humboldt CPO switch device that features Broadcom’s best-in-class StrataXGS Tomahawk 4 switch chip directly coupled and co-packaged with four 3.2-Tbps Silicon Photonics Chiplets…
STMicroelectronics launches new MDmesh MOSFETs
STMicroelectronics’ STPOWER MDmesh M9 and DM9 N-channel super-junction, multi-drain, silicon-power MOSFETs are ideal for switched-mode power supplies (SMPS) in applications from data-center servers and 5G infrastructure to flat-panel televisions. The first devices to be launched are the 650V STP65N045M9 and the 600V STP60N043DM9. Both have low on-resistance (RDS(on)) per unit area, which maximizes power density and permits compact system dimensions. Each has…
Xilinx launches accelerator card for HPC and big-data workloads
Xilinx, Inc., a provider in the adaptive-computing sector, recently introduced the Alveo U55C data-center accelerator card and a new standards-based, API-driven clustering solution for deploying FPGAs at massive scale. The Alveo U55C accelerator brings superior performance-per-watt to high-performance computing (HPC) and database workloads and easily scales through the Xilinx HPC clustering solution. Purpose-built for HPC and big…
Meta deploying world’s highest bandwidth Ethernet switch chip
Broadcom announced that Meta is now deploying the world’s highest bandwidth Ethernet switch chip in its data center network fabric — the Broadcom StrataXGS Tomahawk 4 switch series. A 25.6 Tbps Ethernet switch, the Tomahawk4 is now shipping in high volume in Meta’s Minipack2 platform, which is an industry first. The Tomahawk family has consistently…
TI GaN technology to support Delta Electronics’ power supplies
Texas Instruments (TI) has announced that its gallium-nitride (GaN) technology and C2000 real-time microcontrollers (MCUs) are being combined with Delta Electronics’ high-efficiency power electronics expertise in the design of an enterprise server power-supply unit (PSU). They feature an 80-percent improvement in power density with one percent better efficiency — up to 99.2 percent — for…
Maxim’s multi-phase AI power chipset achieves 95+ percent efficiency
Designers of high-performance, high-power artificial intelligence (AI) systems can now achieve highest efficiency (to reduce power cost and heat) and smallest total solution size with the MAX16602 AI cores dual-output voltage regulator and the MAX20790 smart power-stage IC. Both products are from Maxim Integrated Products. Leveraging the current ripple cancellation benefit from Maxim Integrated’s patented…
Microchip producing Adaptec smart storage adapters
Cloud service providers and server OEMs that are designing storage platforms demand exceptional performance, flexibility, and security for the next generation of data centers. To this end, Microchip Technology has announced the Adaptec Smart Storage PCIe Gen 4 NVMe Tri-Mode SmartRAID 3200 RAID Adapters, Adaptec SmartHBA 2200, and Adaptec HBA 1200 Host Bus Adapters. These…