Boardman灣資本管理

2023年6月11日

Ayar實驗室——矽光子學的領袖到連接——最近宣布它在C1係列帶來了額外的2500萬美元資金,將其總係列C籌款1.55億美元。這種超額認購輪由新投資者資本十。和VentureTech聯盟也進入了C係列之前的投資者Boardman灣資本擴張,包括參與管理,IAG Capital Partners, NVIDIA和堤喀夥伴。現有的戰略和金融投資者包括應用企業,GlobalFoundries,惠普探路者,英特爾資本,洛克希德·馬丁公司。公司的專利光學I / O方法利用行業標準和具有成本效益的矽加工技術取代傳統電I / O快速、高密度、低功耗光學I / O chiplets和多波長光源。和芯片之間移動數據通過光而不是電破壞性能,權力,銅互連和距離限製,對延遲敏感的關鍵應用,如高性能計算、人工智能和機器學習。光學I / O也會影響其他領域,需要快速傳輸數據雲計算和數據中心,電信、航空航天和國防。Ayar實驗室計劃使用資金,加快實現和商業化的光學I / O解決功耗,延時,達到係統帶寬瓶頸和未來威脅生成人工智能的發展,同時也擴大了公司的產品和開發工作。NVIDIA——參與Ayar實驗室的C係列早些時候提高2022年4月,增加其在該公司的投資。最近被《福布斯》評為美國最好的創業的企業之一,該基金還將幫助公司招聘計劃增加到今年的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