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9 cutting-edge technology startups to watch in 2020
In recent years, access to mid- and large-sized funding rounds to scale a company has skyrocketed, a trend that equips...
CB Insights – Game Changing Startups 2020
The past few decades have seen unprecedented levels of innovation, especially in what Peter Thiel calls the world of...
Podcast: IT Visionaries – The Future of Computing
In this episode, we are joined by Alex Wright-Gladstein, CEO and co-founder of Ayar Labs. Ayar Labs has developed new...
National Clean Energy Business Plan Competition: OptiBit Wins MIT Clean Energy Prize
OptiBit’s product brings the high bandwidth and energy efficiency of fiber optics to computer chips, helping data...
Photonic communication comes to computer chips
Startup’s optoelectronic chips could reduce energy usage by up to 50 percent in data centers while increasing...
GlobalFoundries, Ayar Labs Team Up to Commercialize Optical I/O
GlobalFoundries (GF) and Ayar Labs, a startup focused on using light, instead of electricity, to transfer data between...
At Ayar Labs, optical chips borne of MIT research
A breakthrough in optical chips could mean massive energy and cost savings in data centers. In 1965, Gordon Moore...
Ayar Labs: Ambitious Optical Startup Has Plans for ’400-Gig’ and Beyond
Followers of white-hot optical communications company Acacia Communications (ACIA) will be interested to know that...
Ayar Labs Gets $2.5M to Go After Optical Chips for Data Centers
This startup sits at the intersection of electronics, optics, energy efficiency, and the Internet. It is where more...
The chip that saw the light
Researchers have finally put electronic and photonic components on one chip. This could be a game-changer, says...
Light-enabled Microprocessor Holds Promise for Faster Computers
Combining electronics and photonics on semiconductor microchips to speed data transmission isn’t a new idea – the...
