We dive into numbers coming out Hyperion’s latest HPC-AI market update, including the strong current and projected industry CAGRs, the state of quantum computing (including thoughts ...

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We delve into current market sizing for HPC-AI (the conjoining of the two being a relatively new focus), a look ahead at the rest of the year and the decade, the impact of hyperscalers on AI ....

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SEATTLE, January 29, 2025 – Emerald, a venture capital company, has invested in NLM Photonics to help bring energy-efficient, high performance electro-optic modulation technology to AI, data centers, quantum computing, and more. Other investors include Oregon Venture Fund, Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co., Ltd., Pack Ventures, StoryHouse Ventures, and other existing NLM investors to support NLM’s […]

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Dec. 18, 2024, MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. –Photonic interconnect company Lightmatter has joined the Ultra Accelerator Link Consortium (UALink), an industry initiative focused on creating high-speed, low-latency open interconnect standards for scale-up AI systems. As a Contributor member, Lightmatter will apply its Passage technology—a 3D-stacked photonic engine—for accelerator-to-accelerator communication, enabling unprecedented performance in AI clusters. The UALink […]

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SAN JOSE – Dec. 11, 2024 – Ayar Labs, an optical interconnect company for large-scale AI workloads, today announced it has secured $155 million in financing led by Advent Global Opportunities and Light Street Capital. This brings the company’s total funding to $370 million and raises the company’s valuation to above $1 billion. The strength of the […]

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Nov. 14, 2024 — Photonic supercomputing company Lightmatter today announced a strategic partnership with Amkor Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMKR), a provider of semiconductor packaging and test services, to create the largest-ever 3D-packaged chip complex utilizing Lightmatter’s innovative Passage platform. This collaboration harnesses Lightmatter’s groundbreaking 3D-stacked photonic engine along with Amkor’s advanced multi-die packaging expertise to […]

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SANTA CLARA, Calif. – October 23, 2024 – Photonic fabric company Celestial AI today announced the acquisition of silicon photonics intellectual property from Rockley Photonics (Rockley), including worldwide issued and pending patents. Celestial said the combination results in one of the strongest IP portfolios in the field of silicon photonics for optical compute interconnect, bringing their […]

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SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 23, 2024 — PASIC chip design and manufacturing company OpenLight today announced a partnership with Epiphany, a fabless photonic design house, aimed at advancing the photonic integrated circuit (PIC) design ecosystem. Through this partnership, Epiphany will gain access to OpenLight’s open heterogeneously integrated III-V-based PDK, providing more options and flexibility for […]

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Aug. 22, 2024 — SandiaNational Laboratories and Arizona State University are collaborating to combine quantum technology and large-scale optical systems into integrated microsystems. Nils Otterstrom, a Sandia physicist specializing in integrated photonics, is working on scaling down optical systems to the size of a chip, which is intended to offer performance advantages and scalability for […]

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