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

Volantis designed an AI accelerator that uses an optical interposer with integrated micro-VCSELs to connect memory to compute chips. This design lets engineers place memory centimeters away from the processing die, bypassing the perimeter limits of electrical interconnects to raise package bandwidth and capacity.

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