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Altman-backed Volantis reveals plan to vault the memory wall by baking photonics into AI accelerators

What happened

Altman-backed Volantis plans to use photonic interposers to boost AI accelerator memory bandwidth to 240 TB/s and capacity to 10 TB, overcoming current electrical interconnect limitations.

Impact and signal

Low impactImpact score: 10/100

Affected components and suppliers

AI AcceleratorPhotonic InterposerHBM

VolantisAMD Nvidia

photonicsAImemory wall

Source and time

Source: The Register · 10/5/2026 · View original source

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Altman-backed Volantis reveals plan to vault the memory wall by baking photonics into AI accelerators

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