Recent Announcements
Ayar Labs Raises $130 Million in Series C Funding, Accelerating Commercialization of Industry’s First In-Package Optical I/O Products
Boardman Bay Capital Management leads round joined by strategic investments from industry bellwethers Hewlett Packard Enterprise and NVIDIA,...
Lumentum And Ayar Labs Announce Strategic Collaboration To Supply External Light Sources For Co-Packaged Optical Interconnect Solutions
Lumentum and Ayar Labs collaborate on CW-WDM multi-source agreement (MSA) compliant external laser sources to power Ayar Labs’ optical I/O solution,...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Ayar Labs Announce Strategic Collaboration and Investment to Develop Next-Generation Data Center Architectures and Networking with Optical I/O
HPE and Ayar Labs team up to design future silicon photonics solutions for HPE Slingshot interconnect and advanced disaggregated servers HOUSTON, Texas and SANTA CLARA, Calif. Feb. 24, 2022 – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) and Ayar Labs, the leader in...
Ayar Labs Expands Global Presence and Adds Industry Veterans to Executive Team
Named a Cool Vendor in Silicon Photonics by Gartner SANTA CLARA, CA and LONDON, UK, June 29, 2021 – In order to address the UK and European market demand for in-package Optical I/O, Ayar Labs has established an international subsidiary with Ayar Labs UK Ltd. Optical...
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 workloads within artificial intelligence, high performance computing, cloud, telecommunications and aerospace. SANTA...
Ayar Labs in the Media
Ayar Labs | Co-packaged Optics Revolution | The Most Promising Hardware Startup With Wins At HPE And Nvidia?
Ayar Labs is one of the most promising semiconductor startups in the semiconductor world. They were founded in 2015 with a team of many leading...
Nvidia, Intel, others pour $130m into optical chip startup Ayar Labs
Ayar Labs believes future chips and systems will be connected by light rather than electrical signals, and that vision is receiving considerable...
Chip startups using light instead of wires gaining speed and investments
Computers using light rather than electric currents for processing, only years ago seen as research projects, are gaining traction and startups that have solved the engineering challenge of using photons in chips are getting big funding. In the latest example, Ayar...
Ayar Labs: 2022 is the year of scale
Having spent the last two years getting its technology and supplier ducks in a row, co-packaged optics (CPO) startup Ayar Labs now has an announced customer in Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE; see “HPE, Ayar Labs pair to bring optical I/O to HPE Slingshot Ethernet...
GlobalFoundries® Announces Next Generation in Silicon Photonics Solutions and Collaborates with Industry Leaders to Advance a New Era of More in the Data Center
GlobalFoundries Inc (Nasdaq: GFS) (GF) today announced it is collaborating with industry leaders including Broadcom, Cisco Systems, Inc, Marvell and NVIDIA, along with breakthrough photonic leaders including Ayar Labs, Lightmatter, PsiQuantum, Ranovus and Xanadu, to...