Ayar Labs Raises $130 Million To Advance Optical I/O Products
Ayar Labs, producers of cutting edge optical I/O communication products, has rasied $130 in the goal of spreading availability of their products to support computation-heavy industries like AI.
Created on April 26|Last edited on April 26
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In a world of ever-increasing computer chip growth and density, we're beginning to fighter harder and harder against the barrier of traditional copper-based electrical communication speeds.
Ayar Labs has decided it's time to forego the traditional methods, and introduced a product for computer chip communication based on light waves. Their optical I/O products, the TeraPHY and it's partner in innovation the SuperNova, work together to speed up chip communication potentials to light speeds. Ayar Labs' optical I/O products promise up to 1000x increased communication speeds at 1/10 the required power.
Optical I/O for machine learning
Machine learning at large scales simply requires massive servers of processing power. The more components you have communicating with eachother, the more you're going to be bottlenecked by the physical limitations of electricity-based communication.
With Ayar Labs' optical I/O products, AI processing centers (as well as any large-scale mass computation farms) will benefit immensly with speeds up to 1000x that of traditional copper communication at 1/10th the power requirement.
Who's funding Ayar Labs and where's the money going?
In a Series C funding round led by Boardman Bay Capital Management with notable contributions from Hewlett Packard Enterprise and NVIDIA and additional contributions from numerous returning and first-time investors, Ayar Labs has raised $130 million. They plan to use the money in ramping up production and securing supply chain partners, hoping to increase availability of their cutting edge products.
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