Get Tom's Hardware's best news and in-depth reviews, straight to your inbox. You are now subscribed Your newsletter sign-up was successful Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT), a Japanese telecommunications giant, just announced the development of a four-core multicore optical fiber (MCF) that delivers quadruple the capacity of conventional fiber without increasing its thickness or diameter. The company says that maintaining the cable’s cross section is crucial to ensure compatibility with existing infrastructure — not just with cable-laying vessels, but with terrestrial interconnects and terminal racks as well. As the development of 5G communications, AI models, and cloud services accelerates across the world, so does the demand for transferring massive amounts of data. Telecommunications companies can address this demand by laying more infrastructure, but this could be a costly endeavor requiring a lot of time and resources.…