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LK Bhupathi, AVP, Product at Credo, discusses the company's expansion into microLED-based technologies. He explains that microLED solutions use dense arrays of LEDs operating at modest speeds to deliver superior reliability, resilience through spare channel failover, and low single-digit pJ per bit power consumption.

Don Barnetson, SVP & Head of Product at Credo, talks about "the year of inference" as AI shifts from training to decode-heavy applications requiring significantly more memory capacity, while AI spending moves from traditional hyperscalers to neoclouds that need vendor support for rapid deployment.

Don Barnetson, SVP & Head of Product at Credo, explains how liquid cooling has shortened data center connectivity needs to 1-2 meters, enabling new copper-based solutions. His company's 800G zero flap Active Electrical Cables are replacing optical alternatives in hyperscale environments, delivering better reliability and significant power savings that can be redirected to GPU operations.

Chris Collins, VP of Sales & Marketing for Optical DSPs at Credo, outlines predictions for 2025 including the emergence of 1.6T transceivers and power-efficient 3nm DSP devices. He highlights how optical link reliability will be essential for AI clusters while the optical ecosystem expands beyond traditional suppliers to support growing market needs.

Don Barnetson, VP Product - HiWire AECs at Credo, forecasts key networking shifts for 2025, including InfiniBand's reduced role as Ethernet becomes the standard for scale-out networks and proprietary interfaces align with 224G IEEE Ethernet standards. His analysis highlights how liquid cooling's space advantages will drive renewed interest in copper connectivity for NIC-to-switch connections, offering better power efficiency and reliability at lower costs.

Easwar Sankar, Optical FAE Director at Credo, demos the company's new Linear Receive Optics (LRO) product, Dove 850. In an LRO transceiver, or Active Optical Cable (AOC), only the transmit path from the electrical input to the optical line side output includes a DSP for signal retiming and equalization. This unlocks dramatic power savings.

Bill Brennan, President and CEO of Credo Semi, forecasts 2023 as the pivotal year for AI, with the interconnect bandwidth bottleneck in the AI sector driving demand for higher bandwidth and denser networking. Credo Semi is concentrating on resolving this connectivity issue for the AI cluster backend network, which has led to a swift global shift to 100 Gig single lane connections and is expected to hasten the development of next-generation technologies.

Will 800G pluggables arrive for data center switches in 2023? Credo's Scott Feller makes his predictions for data center technology in 2023.