Nvidia, Intel, others pour $130m into optical chip startup Ayar Labs
Ayar Labs believes future chips and systems will be connected by light rather than electrical signals, and that vision is receiving considerable buy-in from semiconductor giants Nvidia and Intel – as well as a few other major tech companies and more than a dozen investment firms.
This buy-in is coming in the form of a $130 million series-C funding round for Ayar Labs, announced on Tuesday, that will help the startup commercialize its chip-to-chip optical photonics technology, which it claims is a much faster way to transmit data than electrical signaling while using much less power.
