Nvidia-backed startup Scintil Photonics starts testing laser chips with customers

Scintil Photonics, a French startup backed by Nvidia, on Wednesday said it has started providing laser chips to customers for testing.

Scintil is one of a number of startups working out how to move information around inside artificial intelligence servers such as those made by Nvidia and Advanced Micro ‌Devices using pulses ⁠of ⁠light rather than electrical signals, a move that could ease the task of linking many chips together to form one large computer. Analysts expect Nvidia to reveal more about its plans for the technology, called co-packaged optics, at its developer conference in Silicon Valley next week.