Speaker

Filippo Ferraro

imec

Biography

Filippo Ferraro is a program manager of the R&D program on optical I/O at imec in Leuven, Belgium. He obtained a degree in physics engineering from the Politecnico di Torino in 2012 and a Ph.D. from the University of Grenoble Alpes in Physics in 2015. After graduation, he joined Seagate Technology (UK) as a senior RnD engineer, working on the next generation on Heat Assisted Magnet Recording Hard Disk Drive. He joined imec in 2018 and where he has been working on advancing silicon photonics technology.

Talk(s)

3:35 PM

Silicon photonics for next-generation AI computing

Advancements in Silicon Photonics and 3D technologies hold immense promise for enhancing AI compute capabilities, driving the pursuit of high-performance AI/ML systems while mitigating the growing power consumption concerns. Hybridized Silicon Photonics platforms are poised to enable pluggable modules up to 3.2T, while deeply integrated, co-packaged optics aim for a 100x scaling of optical interconnect performance, replacing traditional copper interconnects down to the interposer level. These advancements are enabled by hybrid bonding techniques to seamlessly integrate heterogeneous compute and memory layers with photonics for high-speed, low-power optical data transfer. Advanced Silicon Photonics and 3D Technologies set the trajectory of future of high-performance artificial intelligence compute systems.