Huawei unveils Hi-ONE, industry’s first mass-produced NPO optical interconnect

Huawei's claim to mass production is the notable part: NPO has been a lab and prototype story, so shipping volume matters more than the capacity figure itself for how quickly optical interconnect moves toward the package in AI clusters. The built-in light source is the detail worth watching, since external laser sourcing has been a practical constraint on deployment. Whether rivals match the mass-production claim, and whether the integration holds up outside Huawei's own stack, is the open question.