Dr. Suresh Venkatesan reports

POET AND LUXSHARE TECH EXPAND PRODUCT OFFERINGS FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE NETWORKS

Poet Technologies Inc. has expanded its partnership with Luxshare Technology Co. Ltd. to provide more optical module products targeted at AI (artificial intelligence) network equipment and AI service providers. Luxshare Tech is a global leader in providing technology for data communication facilities and enterprise-level products for some of the largest companies in the world.

Luxshare Tech and Poet agreed to produce additional types of optical transceiver modules following the successful completion of the testing of 800-gigabit 2xFR4 OSFP modules using Poet's receive optical engines. These modules showed exceptional performance, which prompted Luxshare and Poet to adopt a broader range of Poet's optical engines into the Luxshare offerings.

The additional products will include Poet's transmit and receive optical engines for Luxshare's 400-gigabit and 800-gigabit pluggable transceivers for single-mode fibre applications. These state-of-the-art transceivers will combine Poet's industry-leading 100-gigabit-per-lane and 200-gigabit-per-lane optical engines with Luxshare's advanced optical module designs. The optical modules will be manufactured and sold globally by Luxshare .

"Luxshare Tech is committed to providing our current and prospective customers with high performance, low-cost transceivers and modules that deliver the power savings that are coveted by AI developers, data centre hyperscalers and the computing industry," said Mike Gao, general manager of Luxshare Tech's optoelectronic business unit. "Poet's interposer-based optical engines have surpassed our expectations, and we anticipate that this partnership will continue to impress our customers. The solutions we are working on will deliver faster and more energy-efficient data communications within the next year."

Selected Poet optical engines will be integrated into existing Luxshare products that are already on the market. Along with the 800-gigabit 2xFR4 OSFP module, Luxshare is developing a series of DSP-based (digital signal processor) and linear pluggable optics products for 400-gigabit and 800-gigabit speeds using Poet's optical engines. These multiple projects will generate complete solutions that include transmit and receiver engines that are built on the Poet optical interposer platform technology.

"We are delighted to deepen this partnership with Luxshare Tech to bring to market products that are hotly demanded by AI and data-com customers," said Poet chairman and chief executive officer Dr. Suresh Venkatesan. "To have one of the largest companies in our industry acknowledge the value that Poet brings to their supply chain is validation of the commercial appeal of our products. Poet has never been in a better position to see our disruptive platform technology deployed broadly in the marketplace."

About Poet Technologies Inc.

Poet is a design and development company offering high-speed optical engines, light source products and custom optical modules to the artificial intelligence systems market and to hyperscale data centres. Poet's photonic integration solutions are based on the Poet optical interposer, a novel, patented platform that allows the seamless integration of electronic and photonic devices into a single chip using advanced wafer-level semiconductor manufacturing techniques. Poet's optical-interposer-based products are lower cost, consume less power than comparable products, are smaller in size and are readily scalable to high production volumes. In addition to providing high-speed (800 gigabits, 1.6 terabits and above) optical engines and optical modules for AI clusters and hyperscale data centres, Poet has designed and produced novel light source products for chip-to-chip data communication within and between AI servers, the next frontier for solving bandwidth and latency problems in AI systems. Poet's optical interposer platform also solves device integration challenges across a broad range of communication, computing and sensing applications. Poet is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with operations in Allentown, Penn., Shenzhen, China, and Singapore.

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