Recent Announcements
Ayar Labs Demonstrates First Ultra-Dense Optical Interconnect Solution on GLOBALFOUNDRIES’ Next Generation Silicon Photonics Manufacturing Process
Collaborative partnership accelerates commercialization of in-package optical I/O for applications in artificial Intelligence, cloud architectures,...
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...
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
Ayar Labs’ TeraPhy Chiplet Nears Volume Production
Moving data between processing nodes - whether servers in a data centre or specialised computing nodes used for supercomputing and artificial...
Super-fast Optical Interconnects
Universal chip-to-chip optical interconnects are delivering off-package communication at the bandwidth density and energy cost of in-package...
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 is solving semiconductor interconnect (I/O), bandwidth and power bottlenecks by moving data using light, with its TeraPHY...
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 this DARPA-sponsored project with Ayar Labs and Intel. What you’ll learn DARPA, Intel, and Ayar Labs collaborate on...
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 requires a very delicate balance to have the photonics and the RF CMOS circuits on the same chip. By integrating it all into...