On June 19, X Display (XDC), an American advanced display technology company, released a Micro LED high-speed display with a data transmission rate of 1 million frames per second. This is claimed to be the fastest known display in the world to date.
It's worth noting that, unlike traditional displays optimized for human vision, XDC's newly released display is specifically designed for communication between devices. This display features thousands of ultra-high-speed, multi-wavelength parallel transmitters, enabling dynamic writing and control of data across discrete consecutive frames. Each frame is emitted by the display via optical signals and received by a high-speed camera. Compared to current mainstream 800G optical transceivers, this display's link achieves 2-3 times higher energy efficiency per bit (pJ/bit), a significant advantage for hyperscale data centers seeking green, highly reconfigurable infrastructure.
According to reports, in this display-based optical communication link, data can be transmitted through the air without the need for physical fiber bundles to connect multiple processor clusters (xPU clusters), and it can also be dynamically adjusted according to real-time changes in bandwidth requirements.
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XDC states that this display lays the foundation for the development of next-generation free-space optical wireless communication systems, which are expected to accelerate communication connections within AI data centers and enable flexible construction and connection of computing clusters through scalable, wiring-free, reconfigurable, and energy-efficient display-camera communication links.
In addition, this display platform is not only an optical data communication solution, but also provides building blocks for applications such as LiFi, digital media broadcasting, visible light communication (VLC), vehicular ad hoc networks (VANET), and energy-saving optical computing.
It's not hard to see that Micro LED technology is gradually being applied to the data center optical communication market and has the potential to reshape the interconnection methods within data centers. Related manufacturers have already begun to accelerate their deployments. As a new growth engine, the future development and contribution of Micro LED in non-display fields will attract much attention and anticipation. (Translated)
