POET RELEASES MULTI-PRODUCT MASK SET TO PRODUCTION

Poet Technologies Inc. has launched its first multiproduct wafer (MPW) mask set for production. The MPW comprises multiple products, including custom designs for specific applications and customers.

Included are designs for two variants of 100-gigabit CWDM4 optical engines for two different customers, a 100-gigabit design for an LR4 transmit optical subassembly (TOSA), a 400-gigabit receive optical subassembly (ROSA) and a 400-gigabit FR4 EML-based (externally modulated laser) optical engine; and three different designs for light engines, including two operating in the O-band for data communications applications and another in the C-band for sensing and computing applications. The tapeout also includes various test structures for evaluation and incorporation in future product designs.

In electronics and photonics design, a tapeout is the final result of a design process for integrated circuits before they are sent to manufacturing. The tapeout is the point at which a graphic for the photomask of the circuit is sent to the fabrication facility -- a milestone frequently celebrated by all those who worked on the project.

I think that tomorrow morning premarket we will be provided with some insights that will give us and idea of the maturity of POET’s AI customer. I suspect it may well be a collaboration in order to allow POET to continue collecting shiny rocks. I believe the end customer is very large and diversified company with global reach.