Aries Smart Optical Drivers
Low-power PCIe 7 optical driver chip (part PL7090L) that extends scale-up links to 50+ metres across multiple racks of a large GPU cluster.
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Official documentation · 18 Oct 2026
No price on the page; the only route is the site's Contact Us page.
- Description
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Official documentation · 18 Oct 2026
"Low Power, Extended Reach for PCIe 7 Scale-Up"; "Extend reach to 50+ m across multiple racks for disaggregated architecture of large GPU clusters".
- What it does
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Official documentation · 18 Oct 2026
"Low-power, low-latency, high-density signal conditioning purpose-built for demanding AI scale-up architectures."
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Own dedicated page with ordering part numbers, but pricing and packaging route to Contact Us; no self-serve or rate evidence.
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Official documentation · 18 Oct 2026
"Aries Smart Optical Drivers"
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Official documentation · 18 Oct 2026
Own dedicated product page, listed on the Astera Labs products page.
- Deployment
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Official documentation · 18 Oct 2026
A chip placed on the buyer's own AI server board or cable assembly across multi-rack GPU clusters; recorded on-device like the other Aries parts.
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