AI architectures are approaching an inflection point, and that is why a new generation of scale-up architectures is needed. Enabling thousands of XPUs to operate as one massive chip for trillion-parameter AI models ….
Ayar Labs Appoints Vivek Gupta Chief Strategy Officer
October 9, 2025 by
SAN JOSE – Oct. 9, 2025 – Ayar Labs, a co-packaged optics (CPO) company, today announced that Vivek Gupta has joined as the company’s first Chief Strategy Officer (CSO). “This is a momentous time for the company, as we scale to commercial production and strengthen customer partnerships,” said Mark Wade, CEO and co-founder of Ayar Labs. […]
Ayar Labs and Alchip in Co-Packaged Optics Partnership
September 8, 2025 by
SAN JOSE – Sept. 7, 2025 – Co-packaged optics (CPO) company Ayar Labs, and ASICS company Alchip Technologies announced a strategic partnership to accelerate AI scale-up infrastructure. The collaboration fulfills hyperscaler demands for advanced AI accelerators and platforms that deliver enhanced performance, efficiency, and scalability. The partnership brings together Ayar Labs’ CPO technology, Alchip’s packaging […]
Optical I/O: Ayar Labs Launches 8 Tbps UCIe Optical Chiplet for AI Scale-Up Architectures
April 1, 2025 by
Optical interconnect company Ayar Labs announced the TeraPHY optical I/O chiplet, which Ayar said is the first optical Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe), designed to maximize AI infrastructure performance and efficiency while reducing latency and power consumption.
Optical Interconnect: Ayar Labs Secures Investments from AMD, Intel Capital, NVIDIA in $155M Round
December 11, 2024 by
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 […]
Optical I/O: The Key to Unlocking AI Infrastructure, Profitability and Performance
October 1, 2024 by
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] Scaling GenAI inference performance requires increasing the number of GPUs or accelerators working in parallel within the scale-up domain. In-package optical I/O offers a path forward by breaking the ….
Ayar Labs Names Intel Veteran Pooya Tadayon VP of Packaging and Test
June 11, 2024 by
SAN JOSE – June 11, 2024 – Optical interconnect company Ayar Labs today announced the appointment of Pooya Tadayon as its Vice President of Packaging and Test. Tadayon was formerly a Fellow and Director of Assembly & Test Pathfinding within Intel’s Assembly and Test Technology Development (ATTD) group. Tadayon brings to Ayar Labs more than two […]
How Optical I/O is Enabling the Future of Generative AI: A Q&A with Ayar Labs CTO Vladimir Stojanovic
March 13, 2024 by
As we look at the future of AI and the challenges it faces, who better to provide insights than Vladimir Stojanovic, CTO and co-founder of Ayar Labs. In this Q&A interview, we’ve asked Vladimir a dozen questions about how Ayar Labs’ technology is enabling the growth of generative AI.
Charles Wuischpard Names Nvidia VP North America Latin America Sales
February 23, 2024 by
HPC industry veteran Charles Wuischpard, formerly of Intel and silicon photonics startup Ayar Labs, announced recently on his LinkedIn page that he has joined Nvidia as vice president of North America Latin America (NALA) sales. In December, Wuischpard ended his tenure as Ayar Lab’s CEO, a position he held starting in 2018. Previously, at Intel […]
Ayar Labs Names New CTO, Adds Barratt, Moorthy to Board
January 11, 2024 by
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Jan. 11, 2024 – Ayar Labs, a company focused on silicon photonics for chip-to-chip connectivity, today announced two additions to its Board of Directors. Ganesh Moorthy, President and CEO of Microchip Technology Inc., and Craig Barratt, former CEO of Atheros and current Chair of the Board of Intuitive Surgical, will join the company’s […]
