Edgecore unveils all-photonics AI infrastructure platform at Computex 2026, combining optical switching, liquid cooling, and open networking with ecosystem partners including AMD, Broadcom, Intel, and Marvell.

Edgecore (an Accton Company) announced the Edgecore Open Fabric: Built for IOWN®, a next-generation, all-photonics network architecture designed in collaboration with NTT's Innovative Optical and Wireless Network (IOWN) initiative and ecosystem partners including AMD, Astera Labs, Broadcom, InLC Technology, Intel, LIQID, Marvell, Penguin Solutions, and 1Finity.

The platform uses optical switching to route 32 wavelength channels simultaneously at 160 nanoseconds of end-to-end latency, with no optical-to-electrical-to-optical conversion penalty, delivering 102.4 Tbps of intra-datacenter bandwidth across a modern AI fabric (32 × 800G wavelengths per fiber).

The solution addresses three challenges in modern AI infrastructure: modern AI training clusters pushing rack power densities beyond 100 kW (which traditional air cooling cannot safely sustain), latency introduced by conventional electrical interconnects, and proprietary lock-in.