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POET EXPANDS GLOBAL REACH AS IT TEAMS WITH SOUTH KOREA'S LESSENGERS TO DEVELOP 800G DR8 TRANSCEIVERS FOR AI AND HYPERSCALE MARKETS

Poet Technologies Inc. has partnered with Lessengers, an innovative optical solution provider based in South Korea, to offer a differentiated 800G DR8 transceiver. The transceiver will include Poet's transmit and receive optical engines and Lessenger's direct optical wiring (DOW) technology for a cost-effective solution for AI (artificial intelligence) and hyperscale data centre applications.

Poet will supply the highly integrated Poet Infinity transmit and receive optical engines configured in an 800G DR8 architecture, which includes electronic and photonic components.

Lessengers expects to have transceiver samples ready for its customers to review in the second half of 2025.

"Like Poet, Lessengers is bringing cutting-edge innovation to the market. It is a perfect partnership of companies that are finding new solutions by unlocking the vast abilities of optical technology. We're thrilled to continue our growth in the industry through a co-development arrangement with a like-minded and truly inventive company," commented Raju Kankipati, Poet's chief revenue officer.

Lessengers chief marketing officer Taeyong Kim added: "Poet's production-ready optical engines provide Lessengers with a high-quality component that allows us to bring more value to our transceiver customers. Poet offers a complementary technology to Lessengers' direct optical coupling that saves on costs and improves efficiency."

The two companies' booths are situated next to each other at the Optical Fiber Communications (OFC) Conference at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, Calif. Poet is at booth 5315 through the show, which ends on Thursday, April 3.

About Poet Technologies Inc.

Poet is a design and development company offering high-speed optical modules, optical engines and light source products 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 (800G (gigabits per second), 1.6T (terabytes per second) 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 in 5G networks, machine-to-machine communication, self-contained Edge computing applications and sensing applications, such as lidar (light detection and ranging) systems for autonomous vehicles. Poet is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with operations in Allentown, Pa., Shenzhen, China, and Singapore.

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