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
Silicon Photonics and the Hunt for an HPC Bandwidth Bottleneck Breakthrough
“FLOPS are cheap, moving data is expensive.” In HPC circles this sentiment is heard often. There’s a growing sense that classical HPC systems and the advanced chips that power them are pushing up against their practical limits, that some foundational new technology is needed to build more balanced systems to achieve the next major advance in supercomputing power.
Highlights from SC22: Catching up with Ayar Labs
In this HPCwire video, CEO Charlie Wuischpard gives an overview of what Ayar Labs has been up to and where optical I/O is headed.
Computing, chips, foundational tech: The 8 next big things, from smart-home connectivity to AI-assisted chip design
Thanks to innovations in computing and chips, our technology is smarter—and better connected—than ever before. We now have AI to help make processors faster, more capable, and more power-efficient; 3D printing to create metals at far greater speeds than existing tech; and connectivity protocols to create reliable and secure IoT ecosystems.
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 part of Project KANAGAWA (the Co-Packaged Analog-Drive High-Bandwidth Optical Input/Output Project). Co-packaged optics...
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 used in ground, air, and sea vehicles and even in space. The designs combine sensors and electronic circuitry for tasks...