Ayar Labs raises $130m for optical chiplets
光学chiplet开发商Ayar Labs已从包括Nvidia和Hewlett Packard Enterprises在内的一个财团筹集了1.3亿美元。
C系列赛将总投资带到了1.95亿美元，并由Boardman Bay Capital Management领导，以推动其光学I/O技术的商业化。现有的战略投资者包括应用风险投资，Globalfouldries，Intel Capital和Lockheed Martin Ventures。
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The company has made its first volume commercial shipments under contract and expects to ship thousands of units of its in-package optical interconnect by end of year.
Ayar Labs’ optical I/O solution eliminates the bottlenecks associated with system bandwidth, power consumption, latency, and reach for artificial intelligence (AI), high performance computing (HPC), cloud, telecommunications, aerospace, and remote sensing applications. The investment will ramp production and secure supply chain partners, following multi-year strategic collaborations with Lumentum and Macom, both leaders in optical and photonic products, as well as GlobalFoundries on its GF Fotonix platform.
New investors in the round include Agave SPV, Atreides Capital, Berkeley Frontier Fund, IAG Capital Partners, Infinitum Capital, Nautilus Venture Partners, and Tyche Partners.
“As a successful technology-focused crossover fund operating for over a decade, Ayar Labs represents our largest private investment to date,” said Will Graves, Chief Investment Officer at Boardman Bay Capital Management. “We believe that silicon photonics-based optical interconnects in the data center and telecommunications markets represent a massive new opportunity and that Ayar Labs is the leader in this emerging space with proven technology, a fantastic team, and the right ecosystem partners and strategy.”
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