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
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...