Co-Packaged Optics Coverage from CIR

Coverage of co-packaged optics technologies, standards, suppliers and markets from CIR. Our reports, forecasts and market briefs provide clients with actionable analysis of opportunities and future possibilities in this growing segment.

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Market Studies

Detailed Analysis of Co-Packaged Optics Market Opportunities

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Market Forecasts, Shipments, Volumes, Values

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Research Briefs

Focused Analysis and Insights on Key CPO Topics

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Advisory

Ongoing Engagements to Discuss Strategic, Tactical and Operational

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CIR’s on-going market coverage of co-packaged optics is delivered via this program.  Subscribers receive monthly market briefs analyzing the current hot topics in CPO that are of key interest and relevant to moving the technology and its adoption forward.  This service is available as a stand-alone program or available as part of CIR’s Annual Co-Packaged Optics Subscription Program.

Focus Areas:

  • Product and technology announcements
  • Vendor activities
  • Investments
  • Applications/demand factors (AI, VR, Metaverse, Enterprise etc)
  • User activities
  • MSAs and standards
  • Materials trends

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Lawrence Gasman is the President of CIR, a technology forecasting company that he created in 1978 and which has been providing guidance and forecasts for the enterprise computing, telecommunications and optical components sectors since 1985. He has been widely quoted by industry publications for many years and has written numerous articles and four books on technology and technology policy.

Mr. Gasman has spoken at many conferences including OFC. Mr. Gasman holds a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from the University of Manchester and advanced degrees from the London School of Economics and Political Science and the London Business School.

Thinking on Co-Packaged Optics

POET Takes Co-Packaging Beyond Communications Markets

One of main predictions of CIR’s 2020 report on co-packaged optics (CPO) is that next-generation switching chips is just the beginning for CPO.  We took the position that CPO is essentially a new way to opto-electronic integration and that novel switching technology is just a place to start. With $15 ...

Broadcom, Cisco, Inphi and the Timing for Co-Packaged Optics: A CIR Research Note

In the past few months two important announcements have been made showing different ways forward for the Co-Packaged Optics (CPO) business.  One of these announcements came from a duo of Cisco and Inphi. It shows perhaps a certain amount of caution about CPO.  For various reasons, Broadcom is a tad ...

Co-Packaged Optics: Of Form Factors and Future Fights

Co-packaged optics (CPO) is flavor of the month right now; the question is, what kind of CPO?   There will surely be different form factors for data centers and telecommunications, and interconnects, sensors, and supercomputing. But there will also be different form factors proposed for CPO for within the data center. ...
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