Salience Labs Launches Industry’s Highest Performing 32-Port All-Optical Silicon Photonic Switch to Transform the Networking Layer of AI Datacenter Infrastructure
Salience Labs Limited, a leader in photonic solutions targeting connectivity for AI datacenter infrastructure, today announced the availability of the industry’s highest performing all-optical 32-port switch. Designed to unlock peak performance in AI datacenters, Salience Labs’ all-optical switch technology improves network latency, throughput and reliability metrics while lowering power consumption. The 32-port product is the first product in Salience Labs’ suite of all-optical circuit switch (OCS) solutions, which also includes 64- and 128-port technologies to meet the evolving capacity and bandwidth needs of next-generation AI datacenters.
Salience Labs Closed Series A Round Led by Applied Ventures and ICM HPQC Fund
Salience Labs Limited, a leader in photonic solutions targeting connectivity for AI datacenter infrastructure, today announced the successful close of $30 million in Series A financing led by ICM HPQC Fund and Applied Ventures, LLC, the venture capital arm of Applied Materials, Inc., to further the development of its optical switches for large scale AI connectivity. Applied Ventures and ICM HPQC Fund are joined by Braavos, and continued participation from existing investors Oxford Sciences Enterprises, Cambridge Innovation Capital, and leaders from the global semiconductor industry including Silicon Catalyst and Jalal Bagherli.
Salience Labs appoints former Imagination Technologies CPO to lead productization of multi-chip photonics processor for AI
Oxford-based silicon photonics company, Salience Labs, announced today the appointment of semiconductor industry veteran Chris Porthouse as Chief Product Officer.
Salience Labs Raises $11.5 Million Seed to Develop Ultra High-speed Chips Using Photonics for AI Applications
Salience Labs has raised a seed round of $11.5 million to develop an ultra high-speed multi-chip processor combining photonics and electronics to accelerate exponential advances in AI. The round was led by Cambridge Innovation Capital and Oxford Science Enterprises, with Oxford Investment Consultants, former CEO of Dialog Semiconductor Jalal Bagherli, Silicon Catalyst, the Goh Family Office in Singapore and Arm-backed Deeptech Labs participating.
