Recent Announcements
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...
At Hot Chips, Intel Pushes ‘AI Everywhere’
What’s New: At Hot Chips 2019, Intel revealed new details of upcoming high-performance artificial intelligence (AI) accelerators: Intel® Nervana™...
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 Raises $24M Series A
PALO ALTO and EMERYVILLE, Calif., Nov. 7, 2018 — Ayar Labs, a company that improves the speed and energy efficiency of high performance computing systems with silicon chips that transmit data using light, has raised a $24M Series A to commercialize their...
Ayar Labs in the Media
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,...
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...
Ayar Labs Realizes In-Package Optics
The holy grail of monolithic silicon photonics remains over the horizon, but photonic chiplets will enable leading-edge digital SoCs with in-package optics. In a segment littered with failed startups, Ayar Labs hopes to commercialize in-package optics using silicon...
Ayar Labs to Demo Photonics Chiplet in FPGA Package at Hot Chips
Silicon startup Ayar Labs continues to gain momentum with its DARPA-backed optical chiplet technology that puts advanced electronics and optics on the same chip using standard CMOS fabrication. At Hot Chips 31 in Stanford, Calif., this week, Ayar Labs will show...
Ayar Labs prepares for the era of co-packaged optics
Published in Gazettabyte Part 1: Ayar Labs Ayar Labs is readying its co-packaged optics technology for scaled production in the second half of 2020. So says CEO Charlie Wuischpard who joined the start-up in late 2018 after it secured $24 million in funding to...
