Boardman湾资本管理

2023年6月11日

Ayar实验室——硅光子学的领袖到连接——最近宣布它在C1系列带来了额外的2500万美元资金,将其总系列C筹款1.55亿美元。这种超额认购轮由新投资者资本十。和VentureTech联盟也进入了C系列之前的投资者Boardman湾资本扩张,包括参与管理,IAG Capital Partners, NVIDIA和堤喀伙伴。现有的战略和金融投资者包括应用企业,GlobalFoundries,惠普探路者,英特尔资本,洛克希德·马丁公司。公司的专利光学I / O方法利用行业标准和具有成本效益的硅加工技术取代传统电I / O快速、高密度、低功耗光学I / O chiplets和多波长光源。和芯片之间移动数据通过光而不是电破坏性能,权力,铜互连和距离限制,对延迟敏感的关键应用,如高性能计算、人工智能和机器学习。光学I / O也会影响其他领域,需要快速传输数据云计算和数据中心,电信、航空航天和国防。Ayar实验室计划使用资金,加快实现和商业化的光学I / O解决功耗,延时,达到系统带宽瓶颈和未来威胁生成人工智能的发展,同时也扩大了公司的产品和开发工作。NVIDIA——参与Ayar实验室的C系列早些时候提高2022年4月,增加其在该公司的投资。最近被《福布斯》评为美国最好的创业的企业之一,该基金还将帮助公司招聘计划增加到今年的50%。 And Ayar Labs has received a number of other accolades in recent months. Mark Wade, Ayar Labs’ Co-Founder, CTO and Senior Vice President of Engineering, was recently appointed to Global Semiconductor Alliance’s CTO Council. And Wade was also recently named to Electro Optics’ inaugural “The Photonics 100 2023” list. KEY QUOTES: “We believe that future computing solutions will include large-scale use of silicon photonics for data communications, and have been following Ayar Labs for some time now. Given our deep expertise in the semiconductor industry and the Taiwan semiconductor ecosystem, we believe Ayar Labs has the technology solution, people, capital, and broad support to lead in the transition from copper to optical interconnects for scale-out computing and memory applications.” — Pin-Nan Tseng, General Partner at Capital TEN “We’re extremely pleased with the ongoing interest and financing we’ve received from leaders in the semiconductor industry. This C1 adds sophisticated investor partners that will allow us to accelerate our strategic roadmap, and is further validation of our technology and plan to bring silicon photonics-based interconnect solutions to market at scale.” — Charles Wuischpard, CEO of Ayar Labs “NVIDIA is reimagining the data center with integrated hardware, software and networking for accelerated computing. Generative AI models with trillions of parameters are accelerating demand for this platform, which is why we are increasing our investment in Ayar Labs.” — Craig Thompson, Vice President of Business Development, Networking Business Unit at NVIDIA Trending on Pulse 2.0