A technical overview of co-packaged optics (CPO) for scale-up AI compute details the packaging architectures, photonic integrated circuit (PIC) materials, laser options, and electrical IC (EIC) design…
Xscape Photonics, a startup with offices in Fort Lee, New Jersey, and Santa Clara, California, raised $37 million in new funding on March 11, 2026, bringing its Series A total to $81 million, with par…
Great Sky, a Boulder startup founded by former NIST researcher Jeffrey Shainline, has sold $25.9 million of a planned $30.72 million securities offering for superconducting AI hardware, according to a…
AMD, Broadcom, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, and OpenAI formed the Optical Compute Interconnect Multi-Source Agreement to standardize co-packaged optics for AI scale-up networks, settling on a slow-and-wid…
Nvidia has committed at least $6.5 billion to photonics companies since March 2026, including investments in Coherent, Lumentum, Marvell, and Ayar Labs, as AI data-center builds expose the physical li…
Nvidia has invested at least $6.5 billion in photonics companies since March 2026, including $2 billion each in Coherent, Lumentum, and Marvell, up to $3.2 billion in Corning, and participation in Aya…