{"id":547438,"date":"2026-07-18T09:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T09:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/547438\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T09:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T09:49:08","slug":"chinese-chip-start-up-biren-bets-on-light-based-supernodes-to-match-nvidia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/547438\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese chip start-up Biren bets on light-based \u2018supernodes\u2019 to match Nvidia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Chinese semiconductor design firm Biren Technology has unveiled its next-generation \u201csupernode\u201d solutions \u2013 systems designed to link thousands of AI chips across a single cluster \u2013 by using optical data transmission to bypass current hardware limits.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The launch underscores how these highly connected server systems have become one of the latest battlegrounds for AI infrastructure companies. The industry is currently racing to scale up raw computing power as artificial intelligence models advance to trillions of parameters and AI agent applications gain widespread adoption.<\/p>\n<p>Ding Yunfan, vice-president of AI framework architecture at <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/tech-trends\/article\/3359528\/chinas-biren-seeks-us900m-fund-gpu-push-and-challenge-nvidia-amid-ai-boom?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Biren<\/a>, said single-graphics processing unit (GPU) performance was no longer sufficient to handle required workloads. The core challenge, he stressed, was transforming massive GPU clusters into integrated, seamless systems.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">To break through that ceiling, Biren is betting on a distributed, decoupled supernode architecture and near-packaged optics (NPO), which integrates optical fibres closer to chips to boost data speeds. The layout could allow Biren to scale up to 1,024 cards across a cluster.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cOptical interconnect has become an inevitable choice to break through this bottleneck,\u201d Ding said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Shanghai-based Biren is only the latest domestic player to announce progress in addressing infrastructure limitations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chinese semiconductor design firm Biren Technology has unveiled its next-generation \u201csupernode\u201d solutions \u2013 systems designed to link thousands&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[345,2939,248710,135237,114,248713,248714,135316,7926,85,46,108701,248711,4136,5733,248712,8599],"class_list":["post-547438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-ai","tag-alibaba-group-holding","tag-atlas-superpod","tag-biren-technology","tag-business","tag-cloudblazer-esl-o","tag-ding-yunfan","tag-enflame","tag-huawei-technologies","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-metax","tag-npo","tag-nvidia","tag-shanghai","tag-waic","tag-zte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}