GlobalFoundries reportedly sees strong demand for Chinese optical modules
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Surging demand for Chinese optical modules as more data centers go up means bandwidth, not just compute, is becoming a chokepoint in the AI buildout. Infra teams should be modeling optical interconnect availability and vendor concentration risk alongside GPU supply.
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