POET and MultiLane Collaborate to Develop High-Speed Pluggable Transceivers for AI Networks
TORONTO and SAN JOSE, Calif., March 27, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — POET Technologies Inc. (POET) (TSX Venture: PTK; NASDAQ:POET), the designer and developer of the POET Optical Interposer™ and Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) for data center, telecommunication and AI markets announced today a collaboration with MultiLane Inc., a leading provider of high-speed IO and data center interconnect test solutions, to develop next-generation, performance-optimized pluggable 800G, 1.6T and higher speed transceivers using POET’s newly designed transmit and receive optical engines. POET and MultiLane will focus on jointly developing pluggable transceivers that will reduce cost and improve power efficiency over existing solutions, and address the increasing need for more scalable hardware components for AI and cloud data center markets.