Ayar Labs In the News
Ayar Labs, backed by chip giants, extends funding round by $150 million
Taiwan’s packaging and integration ecosystem positions it as the backbone of CPO scaling, Ayar Labs says
Copper’s Grip On AI Scaling Is Starting To Slip
Ayar Labs on Taking AI Scale-Up Beyond the Rack
Designing Electro-Optical Chips. Photonics is forcing EDA to verify not just chips, but the physics of light inside full electro-optical systems
Is Optical Scale-Up Finally Approaching? NVLink Fusion hints that optics may be moving inside the rack
Wiwynn and Ecosystem Partners to Showcase Co-Packaged Optics Innovations at Computex 2026
Ayar Labs Gets $500 Million To Ramp Photonics Into 2028 AI Systems
Ayar Labs’ Raises $500M in Funding Round, Charting Path to IPO
Nvidia-backed photonics startup Ayar Labs fills its wallet to mass-produce CPO chiplets
Co-packaged optics startup Ayar Labs raises $500M round backed by Nvidia, AMD
Exclusive | Startup Making AI Chips More Power-Efficient Raises $500 Million
Qatar’s AI Ambitions Span the Tech Stack
NVIDIA’s AI empire: A look at its top startup investments
Co-Packaged Optics (CPO) Book – Scaling with Light for the Next Wave of Interconnect
Where co-packaged optics (CPO) technology stands in 2026
Taiwan approves NT$1.92 billion in tech investments
Ayar Labs and yieldWerx Partner to Streamline Photonics Test Data Analytics, Delivering Measurable Results in Just 30 Days
Industry’s first TSMC COUPE-based optical connectivity solution for next-gen AI chips displayed — Alchip and Ayar Labs show future silicon photonics device
Copackaged optics have officially found their killer app – of course it’s AI
Playground Global Showcases the Future of Compute in Taiwan
Nvidia-backed photonics startup Ayar Labs eyes hyperscale customers with GUC design collab
Why Gigawatt Datacenters Need Better Optical Control
How Fiber Optic Innovation Can Stop a Data Center Energy Crisis
Don’t Miss UCIe Consortium at Supercomputing 2025
Revolutionizing AI Infrastructure: Alchip and Ayar Labs’ Co-Packaged Optics Breakthrough at TSMC OIP 2025
Alchip and Ayar Labs Unveil Co-Packaged Optics for AI Datacenter Scale-Up
Ayar Labs, AIchip provide additional details about jointly-developed co-packaged optics solution
Vladimir Stojanovic, Ayar Labs | theCUBE + NYSE Wired: AI Factories—Data Centers of the Future
Ayar Labs and Alchip Unveil Optical I/O Reference Design
Fueling the future of AI processing
Making connections: The pursuit of chiplet interconnect standardization
AI Infra Summit Video: Ayar Labs CTO on Optical I/O
Ayar to scale co-packaged optics with TSMC and AIchip
September 2025 Hot Conferences Feature Cool Optics
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Recent Press Releases
Ayar Labs Expands 2026 Funding to $650 Million to Scale Manufacturing-Ready CPO for AI Scale-Up Beyond the Rack
Additional $150 million in capital supports product development, manufacturing ecosystem readiness, high-volume production, and new Bengaluru Design Center in India
Ayar Labs Appoints Sejal Patel Daswani as Chief People and Operations Officer
Ayar Labs, the leader in co-packaged optics (CPO) solutions for AI scale-up, announced the appointment of Sejal Daswani as Chief People and Operations Officer.
Ayar Labs Joins NVIDIA NVLink™ Fusion Ecosystem to Bring Co‑Packaged Optics to Rack-Scale AI Infrastructure
Enables hyperscalers to scale with high-bandwidth, low-latency, power-efficient optical connectivity
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Resources
Conversation with Ayar Labs CEO Mark Wade on Silicon Photonics, CPO, and Next-Gen AI Infrastructure
Ayar Labs Co-founder and CEO, Mark Wade, and VP of Capital Strategy and Investor Relations, Jesse R. Leiter, joined Ben Bajarin and Jay Goldberg on The Circuit to discuss solving the interconnect bottleneck in large-scale AI data centers by transitioning to optical connectivity.
2026 AI Infra Summit Spotlight: Scaling Beyond Power Constraints with CPO
Vishal Chandrasekar, Director of Product Management at Ayar Labs, discusses how co-packaged optics addresses AI token generation demands amid power constraints and showcases Ayar Labs’ ecosystem.
AI Infra 2025 Presentation
Learn how optical connectivity can improve inference performance, increase throughput per watt, and support AI clusters with thousands of GPUs working together as a single compute fabric.
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