GlobalFoundries: Accelerating introduction of co-packaged optics for modern AI data centers with SCALE optical module solution

GlobalFoundries announced the launch of its SCALE optical module solution for co-packaged optics (CPO). GF’s SCALE solution, short for Silicon Photonics Co-Packaged Advanced Light Engine, is the industry’s first platform compatible with the Optical Compute Interconnect Multi-Source Agreement (OCI MSA), and exceeds the requirements of the OCI MSA optical interconnect specification for modern scalable AI architectures. Based on GF’s advanced silicon photonics technology, the SCALE-CPO solution leverages both coarse and dense wavelength division multiplexing (CWDM, DWDM) for bidirectional data transmission over any fiber, achieving significant improvements in bandwidth density and system scalability over traditional copper links. GF has already demonstrated 8λ- and 16λ-bidirectional DWDM natively on its platform – a fundamental technology milestone that puts GF in a unique position to support the industry shift to CPO and accelerate the adoption of optical scale-up interconnects. GF’s SCA