The purpose of the Social Implementation Promotion Committee is to investigate and share the technological and market trends necessary to implement the development results of next-generation green data center technology in society. We refer to trends among suppliers, users, players, and consortiums for discussion. We aim to understand global needs and share cutting-edge technology information among participating companies. As a result, we will create synergies that cannot be obtained simply by individual corporate activities, and further strengthen our competitiveness.

We will also promote social implementation by publicizing our activities and achievements, including our participation in the Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan.

In the System Architecture Study Committee, the development partners of next-generation green data center technologies will discuss the requirements of technology development derived from the data center system architecture in 2030, in cooperation with the Social Implementation Promotion Committee.

The subcommittee on the photonics smart NIC will focus on optical communication technology which leads to higher bandwidth and energy saving in inter-component and inter-server communications. The subcommittee on the disaggregation technology will focus on disaggregation technology which improves energy efficiency by appropriately arranging components such as CPUs and accelerators according to the workload and computational power requirement.

The committee will also discuss the direction of the development, taking account of standardization, market, and technology trends.

Focusing mainly on the field of chiplet-type co-packaged optics, this study committee brings together materials companies, circuit board companies, manufacturing equipment companies, and user companies in the electrical and optical fields to share the latest trends in this field and to disseminate information and future collaboration. AIST has gained early knowledge of various co-packaged optics, which are now attracting attention as future breakthrough technologies, through activities such as the NEDO project, which ran from 2013 to 2022. Utilizing this experience, we will provide a committee where the hitherto separate electrical and optical fields can mutually discuss and deepen their understanding, which is essential for the future development of co-packaged optics.