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Digitimes October 7, 2026 By DIGITIMES neutral

Huawei's NPO bet challenges CPO's path to AI scale

HuaweiAI / LLMData Center
Huawei is backing near-packaged optics (NPO) rather than co-packaged optics (CPO) for its next-generation AI infrastructure, arguing that NPO offers a better balance of cost, manufacturability, reliability and serviceability as optical interconnects move deeper into large-scale AI clusters.
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