Lightmatter introduced the Guide light engine, built on its new Very Large Scale Photonics (VLSP) laser architecture, targeting the next phase of co-packaged optics (CPO) and near-package optics (NPO) for AI...
At the PIC Summit, Nick Harris, founder and CEO of Lightmatter, delivered a keynote built around a clear conclusion: the next major order-of-magnitude gains in AI system performance will come...
Avicena introduced a new performance milestone for its microLED-based LightBundle optical interconnects at SuperCompute 2025, driving 4Gbps per lane at transmitter currents of just 100µA per LED. At this operating...
Global Unichip Corp. (GUC) and Ayar Labs formed a new partnership to integrate co-packaged optics (CPO) into GUC’s advanced ASIC design services, aiming to support the optical I/O requirements of...
At last week's Optica Photonic-Enabled Cloud Computing (PECC) Summit, Darius Bunandar, Founder and Chief Scientist at Lightmatter, described how 3D photonic integration will redefine the architecture of AI and high-performance computing...
Ayar Labs has appointed Vivek Gupta as its first Chief Strategy Officer, strengthening its leadership team as it prepares for large-scale deployment of co-packaged optics (CPO) in next-generation AI data...
Credo Technology Group has completed the acquisition of Hyperlume, a privately held developer of microLED-based optical interconnects designed for chip-to-chip communication. The deal adds next-generation photonic capabilities to Credo’s expanding...
The European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC25) kicks off today in Copenhagen, bringing together global leaders in photonics, networking, and data infrastructure. Running from September 29 to October 2, the...
Avicena demonstrated a fully operational microLED-based optical link at ECOC 2025 in Copenhagen, achieving an industry milestone of 200 femtojoules per bit (fJ/bit) at <1E-12 raw bit error rate without...
Alchip Technologies and Ayar Labs introduced a co-packaged optics (CPO) solution aimed at breaking copper interconnect bottlenecks in large-scale AI datacenter deployments. The announcement came at the 2025 TSMC North...
At the AI Infrastructure Summit 2025 in Santa Clara, Vladimir Stojanovic, CTO & Co-Founder of Ayar Labs, explains how optical I/O is breaking through copper’s limits to unlock massive GPU...
Lightmatter CEO Nick Harris took the stage at the AI Infrastructure Summit in Santa Clara to argue that the next 1000X leap in AI performance will come not from GPUs...
Ayar Labs and Taiwan-based Alchip Technologies announced a strategic partnership to accelerate the deployment of co-packaged optics (CPO) for AI scale-up infrastructure. The collaboration combines Ayar Labs’ optical I/O technology...
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