News: Optoelectronics
11 December 2024
Celestial AI wins 2024 Global Semiconductor Alliance ‘Start-Up to Watch’ award
Celestial AI of Santa Clara, CA, USA has been selected by a committee of venture capitalists and industry entrepreneurs to receive this year’s Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) ‘Start-Up to Watch’ award for its innovative and transformative Photonic Fabric technology platform and customer engagement model.
The annual award is presented to companies that demonstrate the potential to positively change the semiconductor industry, through the innovative use of semiconductor technology or a new application for semiconductor technology.
“This award underscores the transformative potential of our Photonic Fabric platform and the caliber of our world-class team as we usher in a new era of optical connectivity for accelerated computing,” says Celestial AI’s co-founder & CEO Dave Lazovsky.
The explosive growth in AI models is driving the need for network solutions that enable seamless, high-bandwidth interconnects with ultra-low latency and energy efficiency to meet the demands of next-generation data-center infrastructure, notes the firm. Celestial AI claims that its Photonic Fabric product and technology offerings are the industry’s leading solution for scale-up networking and network-attached high-performance memory, enabling customers to build clusters of hundreds of XPUs with a high-bandwidth, low-latency interconnect fabric and provision terabytes of unified high-speed memory. The Photonic Fabric addresses the most critical scalability and performance chokepoints in AI processing, unleashing new use-cases and advancements in AI system performance for a sustainable future, says Celestial AI.
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