New article today highlighting the news from January that Celestial AI raised 56million. More interesting tidbits that I have highlighted below. Very exciting times ahead. AI is just ONE vertical for POET.

“[The] new money is being used to commercialize our Orion AI accelerator products, including our design services engagement with Broadcom for the 5nm ASIC manufactured at TSMC. Orion AI accelerators will be offered in two form factors: a standard PCIe card (75W TDP) and a multi-chip, optically interconnected server configuration.”

that the new capital will be used to expand its global engineering team, product development, and strategic supplier engagements, including semiconductor manufacturer Broadcom.

Celestial claims to have developed a photonic-based architecture that scales across multichip systems, enabling data transfer via light both within chips and chip-to-chip. The company’s hardware product integrates photonics into an AI accelerator, making both memory and compute available for AI workloads.

The details of Celestial’s technology remain vague — we’ve reached out with questions — but regardless, the startup is up against well-established competitors in the photonics field

 Lazovsky added. “Celestial’s technology platform brings an entirely new set of tools to the equation to allow our customers to address this problem. We are leveraging the complementary strengths of electronics for high-performance, high-precision computing and photonics for high-speed, low-power, high-bandwidth data movement … The machine learning application benefits extend beyond performance and low power to latency, user friendly software, and low total cost of ownership.”