POET Technologies Earns AI Hardware Innovation Award
POET Technologies Inc., a Toronto-based company specializing in Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs), optical modules, and light sources for AI and data center applications, has been honored with the “AI Hardware Innovation Award” at the 8th annual AI Breakthrough Awards.
This award highlights POET’s Teralight™ optical engines, known for ultra-high performance in AI and hyperscale data-center connectivity. This is the second year in a row that POET has received recognition from the AI Breakthrough Awards, marking their sixth major honor in the last 12 months.
What Makes POET Teralight™ Stand Out?
Teralight™ optical engines feature a highly integrated, wafer-level chip-scale design. Each engine—both transmit and receive—is about 12x12 mm in size, combining a 1.6T transmit optical engine and a 1.6T receive optical engine. The design eliminates wire bonds, reducing signal noise and improving energy efficiency.
One key advantage is that a single design team can develop both 1.6T DR8 and 2xFR4 pluggable modules using the same board design and manufacturing process, simplifying production and reducing costs.
- The transmit engine uses 2x200G EML lasers from Mitsubishi Electric, requiring only four laser chips instead of the usual eight.
- A DC-coupled EML driver is flip-chip attached to the POET Optical Interposer™, enhancing performance.
- Integrated high-speed electrical traces and optical waveguides minimize crosstalk and maximize coupling efficiency.
These features contributed to the jury's decision to select Teralight™ as the top AI Hardware Innovation.
Industry Impact and Future Prospects
Dr. Suresh Venkatesan, POET’s Chairman and CEO, noted that Teralight™ has generated significant customer interest since its unveiling at the OFC Conference. Demonstrations have led to multiple new partnerships, with major companies incorporating Teralight™ into their transceiver module designs.
The Teralight™ architecture is built to support future generations of computing devices, especially those focused on AI connectivity, ensuring scalability and adaptability.
AI Breakthrough Awards Overview
The AI Breakthrough Awards attracted over 5,000 nominations from more than 20 countries, reflecting the growing importance of AI technologies globally. POET’s win underscores its strong position within a highly competitive field.
Steve Johansson, Managing Director of AI Breakthrough, praised Teralight™ for its size, scalability, ease of adoption, functionality, value, and performance, cementing POET’s role as a leader in optical-engine design.
About POET Technologies Inc.
POET develops high-speed optical modules, engines, and light sources targeting AI systems and hyperscale data centers. Their patented POET Optical Interposer™ platform integrates electronic and photonic components at the wafer level, producing smaller, more energy-efficient, and cost-effective products.
POET’s solutions support high-speed data transmission (800G, 1.6T, and beyond) and address challenges like bandwidth and latency within AI servers. The platform also serves 5G networks, machine-to-machine communication, edge computing, and sensing applications such as LIDAR for autonomous vehicles.
Headquartered in Toronto, POET operates in Shenzhen, Penang, and Singapore. Learn more about their technology at www.poet-technologies.com.
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