The bandwidth demand of AI computing clusters has surpassed physical limits, pushing traditional pluggable optical modules and copper cable interconnects to their performance ceilings. Co-packaged optics (CPO) is emerging as a key technology for next-generation data center interconnects. From NVIDIA's two-generation layout to Broadcom's three-generation platform iterations, the timeline for CPO's large-scale deployment has been advanced to 2026-2028, signaling an accelerating industrial transformation that will reshape computing interconnect architectures.
