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...
OpenLight has raised $34 million in an oversubscribed Series A round to accelerate the commercialization of its heterogeneously integrated photonics technology for AI data centers. The funding was co-led by...
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 workloads are pushing the limits of copper and conventional optics, and Celestial AI believes its Photonic Fabric is the key to breaking through. At this week's IEEE Hot Interconnects...
FS has introduced an 800G Linear Pluggable Optics (LPO) module optimized for AI and HPC data center interconnects, targeting efficiency gains over conventional DSP-based optical modules. The 800G DR8 OSFP...
izmomicro, a division of izmo Ltd., announced a milestone in silicon photonics packaging, becoming the first company in India to demonstrate this level of integration. The company developed a high-density...
Xscape Photonics and Tower Semiconductor introduced an on-chip, optically pumped, multi-wavelength laser platform designed for AI datacenter fabrics. The prototype, available as a validation kit, is built on Tower’s PH18...
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...
The Optical Transport equipment market grew 14 percent year-over-year in 2Q 2025, according to a new report from Dell'Oro Group. This high growth rate was primarily attributed to the rising...
Ontario’s technology sector is getting a major boost as Ranovus announced a C$100 million (US$73 million) expansion of its optical semiconductor manufacturing facility in Ottawa. The project will create 125...
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...
At today’s Hot Interconnects online event, Nubis Communications CTO Peter Winzer warned that AI and HPC clusters are increasingly I/O bound, with interconnect performance unable to keep pace with compute....
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....
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