It is broadband, Jim, however not as we all know it: Japanese tech giants are growing a broadband optical SSD for knowledge facilities

Broadband Optical SSDs could also be key to growth of town-sized mega knowledge facilities Choosing optical SSDs permit distance between compute and storage to develop much more The opposite benefit of going optical is the power financial savings related to transferring petabytes of information round

A trio of Japanese tech giants, Kioxia, AIO Core, and Kyocera, have introduced the event of a prototype broadband SSD with an optical interface that works with the PCIe 5.0 normal.