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A new kind of optical interconnect for data centers

In data centers today, there is a constant need for speed. And it's not only inside computer data servers, where one might think it would be. Computing power, capacity, and speed has been increasing ...
EDN

Where co-packaged optics (CPO) technology stands in 2026

Find out CPO’s 2025 scorecard and what lies ahead for this optical interconnect technology in 2026 and beyond.
SiliconANGLE

Optical interconnect startup Celestial AI raises $100M to tackle AI’s ‘memory wall challenge’

Celestial AI Inc., a startup developing optical chip technology to speed up artificial intelligence models, today announced that it has raised $100 million in funding. The round included contributions ...
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STMicroelectronics to enable higher-performance cloud optical interconnect in datacenters and AI clusters

New silicon photonics and next-gen BiCMOS proprietary technologies bring better performance to address the coming 800Gb/s and 1.6Tb/s optical interconnects. Developing a roadmap with partners across ...
Science Daily

New polymer materials make fabricating optical interconnects easier

Researchers have developed new polymer materials that are ideal for making the optical links necessary to connect chip-based photonic components with board-level circuits or optical fibers. These ...
Business Wire

Ayar Labs to Accelerate Development and Application of Optical Interconnects in Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Architectures with NVIDIA

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ayar Labs, the leader in chip-to-chip optical connectivity, is developing with NVIDIA groundbreaking artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure based on optical ...
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Optical chip interconnect startup Ayar raises $155M to bring light to AI workloads

Ayar Labs Inc., a startup that’s developing optical interconnects that can transmit data between computer chips via light, said today it has closed on a hefty late-stage $155 million funding round led ...
PC Gamer

Intel claims its optical interconnect chiplet technology is 'like going from using horse-drawn carriages to using cars and trucks'

At the Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC) 2024, Intel gave us a particularly interesting glimpse at what could be the future of chip and interconnect design. The Optical Compute ...
Business Wire

Ayar Labs to Showcase Optical Interconnect Solutions to Redefine AI Infrastructure at OFC 2024

Unveils the industry’s first CW-WDM MSA-compliant 16-wavelength light source; highlights ecosystem partner technologies enabling AI of the future “The explosive growth of AI models is breaking the ...
EDN

Darpa takes on optical interconnects challenges

HANCOCK, N.H. – The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is overseeing development of optical interconnects that will be able to achieve 1,000 times the speed per power and volume of electronic ...

Silicon Photonics Market to Reach $10.36 Bn by 2030, Driven by Data Center Upgrades, 5G Expansion, and Automotive LiDAR Adoption

Hyperscale data centers are increasingly adopting co-packaged optics to embed optical engines directly beside switch ASICs.