Recent Announcements
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...
Ayar Labs Selected as Optical Solution for Intel’s DARPA PIPES Project
Santa Clara, CA, December 9, 2019 – Ayar Labs is pleased to announce that it has been selected by Intel to provide the Optical I/O solution for the...
Ayar Labs Marks Continued Growth with New Financing from Silicon Valley Bank, DARPA Research Contract, and Strategic Technical Hire from UC Berkeley
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Ayar Labs is pleased to announce that it has secured additional funding to fuel its growth as it drives to productize its TeraPHY™ optical I/O chiplets and SuperNova™ multi-wavelength lasers in 2019. The funding comes on the heels of the Optical...
Ayar Labs Accelerating First Commercial Products to Meet Industry Demand
Establishes Santa Clara Development Center and adds seasoned industry executives from Intel and Penguin Computing EMERYVILLE, Calif.-- Ayar Labs, a leader in optical semiconductor interconnect, is leveraging its recent Series A raise to accelerate product introduction...
Ayar Labs Names Charlie Wuischpard as CEO and Member of the Board of Directors
EMERYVILLE, Calif., Nov. 12, 2018 — Ayar Labs Inc., a company that improves the speed and energy efficiency of high-performance computing systems with silicon chips that transmit data using light, today announced that Charlie Wuischpard, former vice president and...
Ayar Labs in the Media
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...
Ayar Labs Realizes Co-Packaged Silicon Photonics
High-performance computing demand high-performance I/O. The industry has been struggling with improving high-bandwidth long-range solutions for some...
CB Insights – Game Changing Startups 2020
The past few decades have seen unprecedented levels of innovation, especially in what Peter Thiel calls the world of “bits,” or software, internet, and mobile technology. According to Thiel, however, there’s a sense that the tech space “could be doing so much more,”...
On-Chip Optical Links Are One Step Closer To Reality
Ayar Labs looks like it is just about ready to put its optical I/O chiplet technology into commercial datacenter products. A presentation at the recent Hot Chips conference revealed a lot more detail about Ayar’s technology than it has have offered in the past, while...
Ayar Labs and Intel add optical input-output to an FPGA
Intel has teamed with several partners in addition to Ayar Labs for its FPGA-based silicon-in-package design, part of the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) project. Ayar Labs used the Hot Chips conference, held in Palo Alto, California in August,...
