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At OCP 2026 in San Jose, Vishal Chandrasekar, Director of Product Management at Ayar Labs, presents an upgraded version of the company’s co-packaged optics (CPO) rack at the Wiwynn partner booth. Building on the first-generation rack shown at OFC, Computex, and AI Infra, the new system aims to show that CPO for optical scale-up can be manufactured and delivered at scale.

Ayar Labs, Wiwynn, and Corning show what an optical scale-up rack looks like in practice, with dense chassis of ELSFPs, fiber routing, and a central patch panel. The architecture supports more than 64 GPUs per rack and points toward scale-up domains of 500, 1,000, or more GPUs. The video also debuts Ayar Labs’ first live demo of optical engines built on TSMC’s COUPE platform in a rack form factor. The demo addresses one of the central questions in CPO deployment: whether optical engines stay thermally stable in demanding data center environments.

0:00:00 – Introduction from OCP 2026 in San Jose
0:00:17 – Wiwynn Partnership and Next-Generation CPO Rack Overview
0:00:41 – Optical Scale-Up Rack with Wiwynn and Corning
0:01:08 – Debut of TSMC COUPE-Based Optical Engines in Rack Form Factor
0:01:25 – Chassis Breakdown: Liquid-Cooled ELSFPs and GUC Multi-Chip Packages
0:02:01 – Live Demo: Ring Resonator and Laser Thermal Performance Under Liquid Cooling
0:02:47 – Long-Duration Stability in a Data Center Rack Environment
0:03:04 – Closing Remarks and Upcoming Partnership Announcements

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