Recent Announcements
Ayar Labs Expands Executive Team to Lead the Next Phase of Growth in Optical I/O Production and Broad Commercial Adoption
Ayar Labs, a leader in chip-to-chip optical connectivity, has expanded its executive team to further commercial development, with the addition of Lakshmikant (LK) Bhupathi, Vice President of Products, Strategy and Ecosystem, and Scott Clark, Vice President of Manufacturing and Operations…
Lockheed Martin, Ayar Labs Partner to Advance Microchip Connectivity for Next Generation Sensory Systems
Lockheed Martin, (NYSE: LMT) and Ayar Labs, a leader in chip-to-chip optical connectivity, today announced a strategic collaboration to develop…
Ayar Labs to Accelerate Development and Application of Optical Interconnects in Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Architectures with NVIDIA
Ayar Labs, the leader in chip-to-chip optical connectivity, is developing with NVIDIA groundbreaking artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure based on optical I/O technology to meet future demands of…
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, fast-tracking Ayar Labs’ transformational technology for AI, HPC, cloud, and telecom applications Santa Clara, Calif. –...
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, further strengthening supply chain and ecosystem for applications in AI, data center, HPC, and telecommunications...
Ayar Labs in the Media
Ayar Labs adds executives, U.S. East Coast presence as focus moves to CPO production
Ayar Labs also revealed that it has received a $15 million multi-year prototype Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) from the Department of Defense as...
Lockheed Martin looks to pooling and optical I/O
Electronic systems must peer into ever-greater swathes of the electromagnetic spectrum to ensure a battlefield edge. Such electronic systems are...
The Future Of Military Sensing And Communications Systems – Co-Packaged Optics Enable Converged RF Phased Arrays
Warfare is evolving rapidly due to the advancements in semiconductors and sensors. The model of massive budgets for single programs that take decades to churn out a few hundred units of equipment is facing tremendous pressure. Stealth, drones, and mass-volume...
Next-generation sensing systems enable evolving defense applications
Lockheed Martin has partnered with Ayar Labs to replace traditional electrical interconnects with optical I/O solutions. The key to defeating an adversary? Finding and capitalizing on differentiating advantages. Easier said than done. After all, there’s constant...
Lockheed Martin taps Silicon Photonics Tech to Build Better Weapons of War
Military contractor Lockheed Martin this week announced plans to integrate Ayar Lab’s optical input tech into future defense platforms. Founded in 2015, the California-based Ayar Labs specializes in developing high-bandwidth interfaces which trade copper traces for...