Ayar Labs Blog
Breaking Optical I/O milestones while adjusting to the ‘new normal’
Our world shifted with the growing criticality of Covid-19 … and we at Ayar Labs shifted with it. Early in the month, we made the difficult decision to not attend the Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC), but with tireless hours by our technical team to pull...
On the Winding Road through the Dolomites, Detroit, and DC
It feels like just yesterday that I wrote my last blog post — my, how time flies! ISC’19 was of course a great chance to reconnect with old partners and friends in the HPC community, but it was also an opportunity to collect first-hand feedback and requirements from...
The Journey Continues: People, Parties, and Proof Points
As I sit on the first flight to ISC’19 (International Supercomputing Conference), I can’t help but reflect back on the last two weeks and all that’s been going on at Ayar Labs… We’ve had several new hires, including Vladimir Stojanovic, a co-founder of Ayar Labs who...
Come Along for the Ride: Life at a Growth Stage Startup
On January 2nd, 2019, I left a company that I admired and worked at for nearly 20 years, Intel Corporation. It wasn’t that I was dissatisfied with the company or my work — on the contrary — I had an exceptional team that was building out the rack scale design systems...
TeraPHY hits 100G/wavelength
When I started working on microring-based optical I/O in 2011 during my PhD, my team’s effort was considered a moonshot by most in the industry. We were the “crazy academics” with a contrarian vision to building communication fabrics that could scale to the tens of...