Recent Announcements
Ayar Labs Demonstrates Industry’s First Terabit Optical Link for Co-Packaged Optics and Chip-to-Chip Connectivity
New technology milestones and strategic vendor agreement with MACOM position Ayar Labs to lead in multibillion-dollar opportunity for data-intensive...
Ayar Labs Receives Recognition as Top Chiplet Startup & Tech Startup to Bet Your Career On in 2021
Recognition by industry experts for Ayar Labs as leading startup in emerging technologies and innovative industry 4.0 solutions. SANTA CLARA,...
Ayar Labs Demonstrates First Ultra-Dense Optical Interconnect Solution on GLOBALFOUNDRIES’ Next Generation Silicon Photonics Manufacturing Process
Collaborative partnership accelerates commercialization of in-package optical I/O for applications in artificial Intelligence, cloud architectures, aerospace and 5G communications. Company launches 2021 sampling program SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec. 2, 2020 – As part of a...
Ayar Labs Secures $35 Million in Series B Funding and Adds New Strategic and Global Investors as Interest in Optical I/O Grows
Applied Ventures, Castor Ventures, Downing Ventures, and SGInnovate join existing investors as company leads development of photonics-based technology to overcome limitations of traditional Moore’s Law scaling Santa Clara, California – November 5, 2020 – Ayar Labs is...
CW-WDM MSA Group Forms to Drive New Industry Standard for Optical Laser Sources
Specification sets the stage for advances in artificial intelligence, data center efficiency, and other advanced applications of optical interconnect Santa Clara, California – June 24, 2020 – The CW-WDM MSA (Continuous-Wave Wavelength Division Multiplexing...
Ayar Labs in the Media
The Future of Optical I/O is more Parallel Links
Chris Cole has a lofty vantage point regarding how optical interfaces will likely evolve. As well as being an adviser to the firm II-VI, Cole is...
Turning to Optical I/O to Open up Computing Pinch Points
Getting data in and out of chips used for modern computing has become a key challenge for designers. A chip may talk to a neighboring device in the...
Ayar Labs’ TeraPhy Chiplet Nears Volume Production
Moving data between processing nodes - whether servers in a data centre or specialised computing nodes used for supercomputing and artificial intelligence (AI) - is becoming a performance bottleneck. Workloads continue to grow yet networking isn’t keeping pace with...
Super-fast Optical Interconnects
Universal chip-to-chip optical interconnects are delivering off-package communication at the bandwidth density and energy cost of in-package electrical incumbents DATA DASHES through today's optical fibre system networks before it slows to a crawl at copper...
Seeing Past Copper
As the computing world looks for ways to speed processing and reduce latency across various devices and systems, new and powerful frameworks are emerging. Many of these systems continue to run into the same vexing problem: the interconnects on microchips use...