Love your work Nodrog16,
As for Global foundries and Ayar Labs, they still need a light source that's "cost effective". I think the recent announcement for the Poet Starlight, a customized solution for Celestial Ai, in essence a light source that's fully pluggable (no need for additional costly optical alignments) hence the part of why there's a 75% savings as well as large scale volume proproduction.
Here's the real kicker, taken from the blog;
"POET is also a member of the CW-WDM MSA (Continuous-Wave Wavelength Division Multiplexing Multi-Source Agreement), which is standardizing wavelength and power specifications of lasers that are used in AI. POET is developing products that adhere to CW-WDM MSA specifications."
The most important part is who's also a Promoter Member of the CW-WDM-MSA? Ayar Labs and all the big boys, when I say all, I mean ALL The Big Boys, including Nvidia, Arista, Coherent, Intel, Lumentum Broadcom, Macom, Alibaba, HP, AMD and let's not forget Global Foundries. Having said all that, what's the point? Let's have a peek as to who Matt Sysek from Ayar Labs is?
Vice President Laser Engineering
Matt joined Ayar Labs in 2019. He has had a distinguished career as a technologist and leader in photonics and lasers and is the chief editor of the CW-WDM multi-source agreement. Before joining, Matt spent more than 10 years at Intel working in silicon photonics where he led the System Modeling and Architecture Team and was responsible for developing and qualifying the hybrid silicon laser technology that ramped from graduate research into >1 million units shipped. Matt holds MS and PhD degrees from University of California Santa Barbara and a BS degree from Penn State University in Chemical Engineering.
I'm sorry and I won't drag this out any further, let's see how Matt feels about Poet making PRODUCTS with the CW-WDM-MSA standard going forward. If you want to save time, just go to the 3 minute mark.
https://youtu.be/3b78QNwHer8
Enjoy!
