Announcements from Ayar Labs

• Announced world’s first UCIe optical chiplet
• Opened Hsinchu, Taiwan office
• Strategic partnerships formed with Alchip and GUC
• $155M Series D
• $25M Series C-1
• Publicly demonstrated industry’s first 4-Tbps optical solution
• $130M Series C
• First volume shipments
• Technology partnerships formed with HPE, Lockheed Martin, NVIDIA
• Supply chain partnerships formed with Lumentum, Sivers
• First Tbps optical link demonstrated
• Supply chain partnership formed with MACOM
• $35M Series B
• First working silicon in next-gen 45nm silicon photonics process
• Intel & Ayar Labs demonstrate optical I/O in FPGA for PIPES
• CW-WDM MSA established
• Selected as optical solution for Intel’s DARPA PIPES Project
• $24M Series A
• Integration into eval boards with Intel FPGA
• Strategic partnership formed with GlobalFoundries
• Prototype 45nm optical chip
• $2M seed round
• Company created: Ayar Labs
• First ever CPU chip to communicate with optical I/O
• First ever monolithic microring transmitters demonstrated.