Avicena has named Marco Chisari, former EVP of Samsung Foundries and Head of the Samsung Semiconductor Innovation Center, as its new Chief Executive Officer. Chisari replaces Avicena co-founder Bardia Pezeshki,...
At the Hot Chips Conference at Stanford University, Darius Bunandar, Chief Scientist and Founder of Lightmatter, previewed his presentation on the company’s groundbreaking Passage M1000 3D photonic interposer for AI...
Avicena sees a huge opportunity to reshape AI cluster design with its microLED-based interconnects, a technology it says could slash energy use while breaking through the short-reach limits of copper....
AI clusters are hitting a wall with copper cabling, and Avicena CEO Bardia Pezeshki believes microLEDs are the way through. At this week’s IEEE Hot Interconnects online conference, he revealed...
AI supercomputers are hitting a wall—not in compute, but in moving data fast enough. At today’s Hot Interconnects online event, Lightmatter CEO Nick Harris argued that scaling AI clusters into...
Lightmatter introduced a 16-wavelength (λ) bidirectional Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) link that operates on a single strand of standard single-mode fiber, setting a new benchmark for data center interconnects....
Ayar Labs has appointed Vivek Khanzodé as Vice President of Engineering and expanded its operations in both the U.S. and Asia to support rising demand for co-packaged optics (CPO) in...
Avicena has raised $65 million in an oversubscribed Series B funding round led by Tiger Global, with new backing from SK hynix and continued support from Prosperity7 Ventures, Venture Tech...
Vuzix and Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems (IPMS) announced the production of initial samples of a new custom microLED backplane. This development marks a significant step forward in enabling...
Avicena, a privately held startup based in Sunnyvale, California, announced a collaboration with TSMC to optimize photodetector (PD) arrays for its LightBundle microLED-based optical interconnects. The effort aims to extend...
Ayar Labs introduced the industry’s first Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe) optical interconnect chiplet, the TeraPHY, aimed at enhancing AI infrastructure by delivering up to 8 Tbps bandwidth. Powered by...
At OFC 2025, Lightmatter introduced two groundbreaking products—Passage™ M1000 and Passage™ L200/L200X—that redefine the future of AI infrastructure by delivering record-breaking bandwidth and eliminating interconnect bottlenecks. These next-generation 3D photonic superchips and co-packaged optics...
by James E. Carroll San Francisco, March 31, 2025 — At the Optica Executive Forum during OFC 2025, an all-star panel of infrastructure leaders from Microsoft, NVIDIA, Meta, and Arista Networks...
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