Business Wire

Ayar Labs Raises $130 Million in Series C Funding, Accelerating Commercialization of Industry’s First In-Package Optical I/O Products

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ayar Labs, the leader in chip-to-chip optical connectivity, today announced that the company has secured $130 million in additional financing led by Boardman Bay ...
Business Wire

Ayar Labs, with Investments from AMD, Intel Capital, and NVIDIA, Secures $155 Million to Address Urgent Need for Scalable, Cost-Effective AI Infrastructure

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ayar Labs, the leader in optical interconnect solutions for large-scale AI workloads, today announced it has secured $155 million in financing led by Advent Global ...
VentureBeat

Ayar Labs teams with Nvidia for optical interconnects to speed up AI/ML

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Ayar Labs, which specializes in something relatively new in ...
SiliconANGLE

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 ...

Rocket Lab Receives Regulatory Approval to Acquire Mynaric

By bringing industry-leading satellite laser communication technology in-house Rocket Lab will strengthen its capability to ...
Business Insider

Rocket Lab Acquires Optical Support, Inc., Strengthening National Security Payload Capability

LONG BEACH, Calif., Feb. 26, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rocket Lab Corporation (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or the “Company”), a global leader in launch services and space systems, today announced it ...
SiliconANGLE

Nvidia teams up with optical chip startup Ayar Labs to advance AI hardware

Nvidia Corp. has inked a technology partnership with Ayar Labs Inc., a startup developing optical chips that promise to increase the speed and efficiency of data center infrastructure. The partnership ...
Morningstar

Salience Labs Launches Industry’s Highest Performing 32-Port All-Optical Silicon Photonic Switch to Transform the Networking Layer of AI Datacenter Infrastructure

Salience Labs Limited, a leader in photonic solutions targeting connectivity for AI datacenter infrastructure, today announced the availability of the industry’s highest performing all-optical 32-port ...
EDN

Bell Labs targeting 100Tbit/s optical router

LONDON – Bell Labs will take the lead on two optical and laser communications R&D projects awarded by the Pentagon to Lucent Technologies. One focuses on devising an optical router capable of sending ...
The Indianapolis Star

Percept Corporation Announces Patented MiOptics Therapeutic Optics Now Available Through the Top Independent Optical Labs in North America

Authorized Qualified Optical Labs include Cherry Optical, Complete Optical, OnSight Optical, Laramy-K Optical Lab, Pacific Artisan Labs and Plastic Plus. LAS VEGAS, NV / ACCESS Newswire / September 15 ...
Phys.org

Twisting optical fiber creates a robust new pathway for light

Light powers everything from communications to sensing, yet even tiny imperfections can scatter it and weaken signals. To address this, a team led by the University of Bath—working with the University ...