Lightmatter launched an Open Compute Project co-packaged optics workstream involving 19 companies.

Lightmatter launched the Open Silicon Photonics for AI Systems initiative as an official workstream within the Open Compute Project. The initiative concerns co-packaged optics architecture for AI systems.

The coalition comprises nine new participants and 10 founding members, for 19 companies in total. Companies identified in the announcement include Celestica, Dell Technologies, Flex, Foxconn Interconnect Technology and GlobalFoundries.

The workstream is an industry architecture initiative rather than a disclosed commercial system deployment. The supplied source does not state a production schedule, capital commitment, optical bandwidth target or customer order value.