Who Needs DRAM? We Have Fiber

arXiv:2607.08407v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The rising pressure on DRAM availability and contract pricing reflects generative AI's massive high-performance memory requirements. This pressure is heavily compounded by hyperscale data center expansion, which now consumes a significant portion of global DRAM output. In this work, we propose a new architecture, Fiber Memory, which reimagines the role of optical fiber in a hyperscale data center, deploying it as an active, recirculating delay-line memory for immutable data, such as large language model weights. We present a hybrid data- and pipeline-parallel optical broadcast delay-line memory architecture that accounts for fiber's physical realities.