POET Technologies Announces Sample Availability of “POET Infinity”
and Testing with Two Lead Customers
Alpha samples of
the chiplet-based transmitter platform for 400G, 800G and 1.6T data
center solutions
are ready for
shipment
Toronto,
Ontario, June 14,
2023 -- InvestorsHub NewsWire -- POET
Technologies Inc. ("POET"
or the "Company")
(TSXV: PTK; NASDAQ: POET), the designer and developer of the POET
Optical Interposer™ and Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) for the
data center, telecommunication and artificial intelligence markets,
today announced alpha
sample readiness of "POET
Infinity™", a chiplet-based
transmitter platform for 400G, 800G and 1.6T pluggable transceivers
and co-packaged optics solutions. Two lead customers have agreed to
partner with POET to test the alpha version of the
Infinity
chiplet.
The POET
Infinity
chiplet
complements the POET 800G 2xFR4 Receiver optical engine that the
Company announced in February 2023, and completes the 800G chipset
for 2xFR4 QSFP-DD or OSFP applications with two Infinity
chiplets and one
Receiver optical engine. Both customers intend to develop 800G
2xFR4 QSFP-DD and OSFP transceiver solutions using the POET Optical
Engine chipsets.
The Infinity chiplet is the industry's first
implementation of directly modulated lasers (DMLs) for 100G/lane
applications. DMLs are power efficient and cost effective, and the
solution becomes highly scalable when paired with the POET Optical
Interposer™ platform. The chiplet incorporates 100G PAM4 DMLs, DML
Drivers and an integrated optical multiplexer for a complete
400GBASE-FR4 transmitter solution on a chip. The small size of the
chiplet and a daisy-chain architecture enables side-by-side
placement of multiple instances to achieve 800G and 1.6T
speeds.
The POET Infinity product line carries forward the POET
differentiation of all passive alignments and monolithically
integrated waveguides, multiplexers and demultiplexers, which
translates to lower cost, power, and ease-of-assembly benefits to
customers.
"The availability of a
transmitter solution for 400G, 800G and 1.6T speeds that is power
efficient, cost effective and highly scalable for the data center
market is a major achievement by our team", said Dr. Suresh
Venkatesan, Chairman & CEO of POET. "Our customers are excited
to receive the samples and test them because it simplifies their
transceiver design significantly and shortens the design cycle with
known-good optical engines from POET that incorporate all the
optical elements as well as the key electronic components like
laser drivers and trans-impedance amplifiers."
The development of a production
version of the POET Infinity chiplet is on track and POET expects to
deliver beta samples by Q4 of 2023 and start production by early
2024. The ethernet transceiver market for 400G and above data rate
is projected by Lightcounting
to exceed $6 billion by
2028.
About POET
Technologies Inc.
POET
Technologies is a design and development company offering
integration solutions based on the POET Optical Interposer™ a novel
platform that allows the seamless integration of electronic and
photonic devices into a single chip using advanced wafer-level
semiconductor manufacturing techniques and packaging methods.
POET's
Optical Interposer eliminates costly components and labor-intensive
assembly, alignment, and testing methods employed in conventional
photonics. The cost-efficient integration scheme and scalability of
the POET Optical Interposer brings value to any device or system
that integrates electronics and photonics, including some of the
highest growth areas of computing, such as Artificial Intelligence
(AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), autonomous vehicles and
high-speed networking for cloud service providers and data centers.
POET is headquartered in Toronto, with operations in Allentown, PA,
Shenzhen, China and
Singapore. More information may be obtained at
www.poet-technologies.com.
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