Recent Announcements
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...
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...
PIPES Researchers Demonstrate Optical Interconnects to Improve Performance of Digital Microelectronics
Researchers replace traditional electronic I/O with optical signaling interfaces to achieve major improvements in link reach and efficiencyUnder DARPA’s Photonics in the Package for Extreme Scalability (PIPES) program, researchers from Intel and Ayar Labs have...
Ayar Labs Receives Strategic Investment from Lockheed Martin
Funds to accelerate commercialization for Artificial Intelligence, High Performance Computing, and Digital Beamforming applications SANTA CLARA, Calif., Mar. 02, 2020 – Ayar Labs is pleased to announce that it has received a strategic investment from Lockheed...
Dr. Ken Chang Joins Ayar Labs Executive Leadership Team as Senior Vice President of Engineering
SANTA CLARA, CA, December 17, 2019 – Ayar Labs is pleased to announce that Dr. Ken Chang, former VP of Wired Engineering at Xilinx, has joined as Senior Vice President of Engineering. Dr. Chang joins Ayar after nine years at Xilinx where he led its SerDes technology...
Ayar Labs in the Media
CMOS Plus On-Chip Electro-Optical Interconnect Zooms Past 2 Tb/s
A highly advanced management of electronics, CMOS, and optical physics is pushing system-in-package designs past the terabit-per-second boundary in...
Global Foundries Blog | Silicon Photonics: A Marriage of Optical and Digital on GF’s RF Process
GLOBALFOUNDRIES and SiPh startup Ayar Labs have been collaborating since 2016 on a monolithic solution for in-package optical interconnects “It...
Ayar Labs is Recognized by BAE Systems as FAST Labs™ Technology Innovation Partner of the Year
BAE Systems’ Electronic Systems sector, based in Nashua, New Hampshire, has announced the winners of its third annual Partner 2 Win Supplier of the Year Awards. Twelve suppliers are being recognized for best-in-class performance in achieving on-time delivery and...
Global Foundries Has Quietly Become A Player In Silicon Photonics Manufacturing
Silicon photonics is ramping up to be one of the more interesting technologies to emerge over the last 10 years. The problems today are simple, but the solutions are hard. We need more bandwidth between everything. We need higher bandwidth between servers in...
Lockheed backs optical interconnects with Ayar Labs investment
Ayar Labs, a Silicon Valley startup with the stated aim of “enabling the next phase of Moore’s law through optical connectivity”, says it has received strategic investment from the venture wing of the giant US military contractor Lockheed Martin. Without disclosing...