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Helping to scale next generation optical connectivity

Benoit Fleury, CPO Business Director at Corning, explains how Corning is collaborating with GlobalFoundries to develop detachable fibre connector solutions for the GF Fotonix™ silicon photonics platform. The latest solution, a glass-waveguide based edge-coupler compatible with GF Fotonix’s v-grooves, is designed to meet the growing demands of AI data centres for high bandwidth and power-efficient optical connectivity. Other coupling mechanisms are also being developed, including a vertically-coupled detachable fibre-to-PIC solution – demonstrating Corning and GlobalFoundries’ combined ability to produce multiple forms of co-packaged PIC-to-fibre connectivity.

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Vespertec brings the Midas touch to Durham University liquid cooling collaboration

Scott Constable, Alliance Director at Vespertec, John Griffith, Worldwide Sales Manager at Midas Immersion Cooling and Dr. George Zhang, Vice President of R&D at Valvoline Global, discuss the three companies’ collaboration which has delivered a 50U XCI immersion cooling solution at Durham University. Working in partnership with Durham’s IT and facilities teams, Vespertec designed and delivered a system tailored to the university’s exacting performance and sustainability requirements. Alongside the immersion tank, the project integrates specialist hardware from GIGABYTE, advanced cooling fluids from Valvoline Global designed to efficiently transfer heat and enable immersion cooling, and system architecture tuned for Durham’s research needs – contributing to and showcasing a cohesive, next-gen high performance computing environment.

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