Mark Wade is Chief Scientist of Ayar Labs, which specialises in chip-to-chip optical connectivity, and was part of the team that demonstrated the first microprocessor to communicate to the outside world with light, recently featured in Nature.
Not surprising then that Wade told The Register earlier this year that he expects optical waveguides to begin supplanting the copper traces on PCBs within the next decade.
In April, Ayar Labs announced it had secured $130 million to drive the commercialisation of its optical I/O solution for new computing architectures. In June, one of those funding partners, Nvidia, began co-developing a new artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure with Ayar based on its optical I/O technology. This is designed to eliminate the bottlenecks associated with system bandwidth, power consumption, latency, and reach, dramatically improving existing system architectures.
Wade has a large selection of journal articles, conference papers and articles published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) over the past seven years.
Organisation: Ayar Labs
Role: President, Chief Scientist, and co-founder
Based in: San Francisco, USA
Education: PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder