6T modules will enter initial production in 2025, shipments will remain limited—below one million units—and will have minimal impact on the dominance of 400/800G technology until 2026. Today on its Q3 2023 earnings call, Intel announced that it divested its optical module business., March 31, 2025 — Marvell Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRVL), a leader in data infrastructure semiconductor solutions, today announced it will showcase its interconnect portfolio for scale-up and scale-out AI deployments at OFC 2025, taking place March 31–April 3 in San Francisco. This White Paper describes a new paradigm that decouples the controller from host SW development, enabling faster realization of advanced module capabilities in a disaggregated environment. Notice: This technical white paper (“White Paper”) has been created by the Optical Internetworking Fo-rum. An optical module is a typically hot-pluggable optical transceiver used in high-bandwidth data communications applications. Optical modules typically have an electrical interface on the side that connects to the inside of the system and an optical interface on the side that connects to the outside. BOSTON (January 7, 2025) – Total shipments of leading-edge datacom optical modules are projected to tally over $9 billion for 2024, according to the latest Optical Components Report from research firm Cignal AI.
