Recent Announcements
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...
Ayar Labs Receives Strategic Investment from Lockheed Martin
Funds to accelerate commercialization for Artificial Intelligence, High Performance Computing, and Digital Beamforming applications SANTA...
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 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 in the Media
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...
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...
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 time. Last year saw the introduction of FPGAs from both Intel and Xilinx with 56G I/O. Long-reach 112G SerDes PHYs have...
9 cutting-edge technology startups to watch in 2020
In recent years, access to mid- and large-sized funding rounds to scale a company has skyrocketed, a trend that equips startups with resources they need to scale their technology. But the challenge for younger tech companies doesn't stop at building a quality product....
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,”...