Ayar Labs Company Research Report

Company Overview

Company Name: Ayar Labs, Inc.

Mission: To transform AI infrastructure by accelerating data movement; enable composable system architectures optimized for large-scale AI workloads while scaling performance and throughput for training and inference.

Founding Date and Founders:

Founded in 2015

Founders: Vladimir Stojanovic, Chen Sun, Milos Popovic, Rajeev Ram

Key People:

Mark Wade - Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder

Lisa Cummins Dulchinos - Chief Financial Officer

Vladimir Stojanovic - Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder

Amelia Thornton - Chief People Officer

Lakshmikant (LK) Bhupathi - Vice President of Products, Strategy, and Ecosystem

Scott Clark - Vice President of Manufacturing and Operations

Jesse Leiter - Vice President of Investor Relations

Chen Sun - Vice President of Silicon Engineering and Co-Founder

Pooya Tadayon - Vice President of Packaging and Test

Garth Thompson - Chief Information Officer

Terry Thorn - Vice President of Commercial Operations

Board of Directors:

Mark Wade - Chief Executive Officer

Craig Barratt - Board Member

Will Graves - Board Member

Matt Hershenson - Board Member

Ganesh Moorthy - Board Member

Daniel Armbrust - Investor and Advisory Board Member

Rory McInerney - Executive Advisor

Milos Popovic - Technical Principal and Co-Founder

Rajeev Ram - Technical Principal and Co-Founder

Headquarters: 695 River Oaks Parkway, San Jose, CA 95134

Number of Employees: No information is available

Revenue: No information is available

Company Specialization:
Ayar Labs is known for its cutting-edge optical I/O solution, which helps in eliminating data bottlenecks, thus paving the way for the next generation of AI breakthroughs.

Products

TeraPHY™ Optical I/O Chiplet

High-Level Description: An industry-first monolithic in-package optical I/O chiplet.

Key Features:

Combination of silicon photonics with standard CMOS manufacturing processes.

Enables ASICs to communicate across a wide range of distances, from millimeters to kilometers.

Provides bidirectional bandwidth of 4 Tbps.

Latency of 5 ns per chiplet.

Power efficient, consuming less than 5 pJ/b (10 Watts).

SuperNova™ Light Source

High-Level Description: Industry-first multi-wavelength, multi-port optical source.

Key Features:

Provides up to 16 wavelengths of light and powers up to 16 ports.

First optical source designed to be compliant with the CW-WDM MSA specification.

Optical I/O Evaluation Kit

High-Level Description: No detailed description is available.

Key Features: No information is available

Recent Developments

Showcasing at OFC 2024: Ayar Labs will showcase their Optical Interconnect Solutions, redefining AI infrastructure.

New Executive: Pooya Tadayon, formerly of Intel, joined as VP of Packaging and Test on June 11, 2024.

Strategic Collaborations: Partnerships with companies like Ericsson and Corning to develop high-density, cost-effective, low latency, energy-efficient connectivity for AI architectures and telecom.