Recent Announcements
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...
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 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 company’s recently awarded DARPA PIPES research project. The goal of PIPES, which stands for Photonics in the Package...
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™ neural network processors, with the NNP-T for training and the NNP-I for inference. Intel engineers also presented...
Ayar Labs in the Media
Downing Ventures co-leads USD35m Series B investment in Ayar Labs
Downing Ventures has completed a USD35 million Series B funding round in Ayar Labs as co-lead investor. Ayar Labs is a Deep Tech organisation that...
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...
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...