NVIDIA, AMD Back Ayar Labs’ $500M Raise for Optical Tech Tackling AI Copper Bottlenecks
March 2026 — Silicon Valley — Ayar Labs has raised $500 million in a funding round led by NVIDIA Corporation and AMD to advance its innovative optical I/O technology aimed at solving bandwidth bottlenecks in AI hardware. The company’s photonics-based approach promises to accelerate data transfer between chips while reducing energy consumption, addressing one of … Read more