경영진 답변Hock TanPresident & Chief Executive Officer
… you address this question because the way that you address the question to me is almost hesitant. Thank you. I appreciate that. But on your first part, yeah, we're driving growth, and it begins to feel like this thing never ends. And it's a real mix bag of existing customers and on existing XPUs. And a big part of it is XPUs that we're seeing. And that's not to slow down the fact that, as I indicated in my remarks and commented on, the demand for switches, not just some of six, some of five switches, the demand for our latest 1.6 terabits per second DSPs that enables optical interconnects for scale-out particularly. It's just very, very strong. and and by extension demand for the optical components like lasers pin dies just going nuts all that come together now all that is smaller on the relatively lesser dollars when it comes to xpus as you probably guess you know of this to give you a sense maybe let me look at it on a backlog site of the 73 billion or ai revenue backlog over the next 18 months i talked about maybe 20 billion of it is everything else. The rest is XPUs. Hope that gives you a sense of what the mix is. But the rest is still 20 billion. That's not small by any means. So we value that. So when you talk about your next question of silicon photonics as a means to create basically much better, more efficient, lower power, interconnects in not just scale out, but hopefully scale up. Yeah, I could see a point in time in the future when silicon photonics matters as the only way to do it. We're not quite there yet, but we have the technology and we continue to develop the technology. And even as each time we develop it first for 400 gigabits, bandwidth going on to 900, 800 gigabit bandwidth, not ready for it yet. And even with the product, we're now doing it for 1.6 terabit bandwidth to create silicon photonics switches, silicon photonics interconnects. Not even sure it will get fully deployed because, you know, engineers, our engineers, our peers, and the peers we have out there, will somehow try to find a way to still do try to do scale up within a rack in copper as long as possible and in scale up in you know pluggable optics the final final straw is when you can't do it well in pluggable optics and of course when you can't do it even in copper then you're right you go to silicon photonics And it will happen. And we're ready for it. Just saying, …