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Sivers Semiconductors: to develop CW-WDM MSA compliant DFB laser arrays, Market Screener, September 2021
The Future of Optical I/O is more Parallel Links, gazettabyte, September 23, 2021
Turning to Optical I/O to Open up Computing Pinch Points, gazettabyte, August 18, 2021
Ayar Labs’ TeraPhy Chiplet Nears Volume Production, gazettabyte, December 15, 2020
Super-fast Optical Interconnects, CS, December 14, 2020
Seeing Past Copper, ACM, December 8, 2020
Downing Ventures co-leads USD35m Series B investment in Ayar Labs, Downing Ventures, November 5, 2020
CMOS Plus On-Chip Electro-Optical Interconnect Zooms Past 2 Tb/s, ElectronicDesign, August 14, 2020
Global Foundries Blog | Silicon Photonics: A Marriage of Optical and Digital on GF’s RF Process, GlobalFoundries, May 7, 2020
Ayar Labs is Recognized by BAE Systems as FAST Labs™ Technology Innovation Partner of the Year, BAE Systems, April 27th, 2020
Global Foundries Has Quietly Become A Player In Silicon Photonics Manufacturing, Forbes, March 31, 2020
Lockheed backs optical interconnects with Ayar Labs investment, optics.org, March 11, 2020
Ayar Labs Realizes Co-Packaged Silicon Photonics, WikiChip Fuse, January 19, 2020
Game Changing Startups 2020, Research Report, December 17, 2019
ON-CHIP OPTICAL LINKS ARE ONE STEP CLOSER TO REALITY, TheNextPlatform, September 11, 2019
Ayar Labs and Intel add optical input-output to an FPGA , Gazettabyte, September 11, 2019
Ayar Labs to Demo Photonics Chiplet in FPGA Package at Hot Chips, HPCwire, August 19, 2019
Ayar Labs prepares for the era of co-packaged optics , Gazettabyte, Feburary 21, 2019
FIRST SILICON FOR PHOTONICS STARTUP WITH DARPA ROOTS, TheNextPlatform, Janurary 29, 2019
Photonic communication comes to computer chips, MIT News, April 5, 2018
GlobalFoundries, Ayar Labs Team Up to Commercialize Optical I/O, HPCwire, December 4, 2017
At Ayar Labs, optical chips borne of MIT research, MIT Management, November 3, 2017
The chip that saw the light, DCD, February 25, 2016
Light-enabled Microprocessor Holds Promise for Faster Computers, DCD, February 23, 2016
Computer technology Silicon chips lighten up, nature, December 23, 2015
Engineers demo first processor that uses light for ultrafast communications, Berkeley News, December 23, 2015
Light Chips Could Mean More Energy-Efficient Data Centers, Technology Review, December 23, 2015
Watch Out Intel, Here Comes Facebook, BARRON’S, October 31, 2015
Silicon photonics meets the foundry, MIT News, September 8, 2015
Optical-chips team sweeps Clean Energy Prize, MIT News, May 13, 2015
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Ayar Labs Adds $25 Million in Expansion of its $130 Million Series C
Ayar Labs, a leader in silicon photonics for chip-to-chip connectivity, today announced it has raised an additional $25 million in Series C1 funding, bringing its total Series C raise to $155 million. The oversubscribed up round was led by new investor Capital TEN. VentureTech Alliance also entered the Series C expansion that included participation by previous investors Boardman Bay Capital Management, IAG Capital Partners, NVIDIA, and Tyche Partners.
Ayar Labs Demonstrates Industry’s First 4-Tbps Optical Solution, Paving Way for Next-Generation AI and Data Center Designs
Ayar Labs, a leader in the use of silicon photonics for chip-to-chip optical connectivity, today announced public demonstration of the industry’s first 4 terabit-per-second (Tbps) bidirectional Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) optical solution at the upcoming Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) in San Diego on March 5-9, 2023.
Ayar Labs Partners with Department of Defense to Accelerate Transition to Optical I/O in Next-Gen Defense Applications
Project KANAGAWA granted to Ayar Labs with goal of transitioning optical Input/Output (I/O) into the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) while driving affordability and scalability for production…
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Ayar Labs Optical I/O: Shattering the Barriers to AI at Scale
Generative AI is enabling transformative outcomes, but model complexity is growing exponentially. Traditional interconnects create a bottleneck for data, forcing GPUs to remain idle a majority of the time.
4 Tbps Optical FPGA Technology from Intel and Ayar Labs: Spend Your Precious Power on Compute, Not Connectivity
Sergey Shumarayev, Intel senior principal engineer/distinguished architect, shares how optical FPGA technology addresses socket power challenges for data-intensive applications like generative AI.
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