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Ayar Labs expands 2026 funding to $650m to scale manufacturing-ready CPO for AI scale-up beyond rack

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Silicon photonics-based chip-to-chip optical connectivity firm Ayar Labs of San Jose, CA, USA — which is pioneering co-packaged optics (CPO) for AI scale-up — has secured an additional $150m in funding, bringing its total primary capital raised in 2026 to $650m. Separately, it discloses that Wiwynn made a strategic investment earlier this year. Wiwynn, a cloud IT and infrastructure provider for data centers, joins a growing group of strategic backers that includes Alchip, AMD, Intel, MediaTek, and NVIDIA...
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