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Lightmatter, the leader in photonic interconnect and supercomputing, has joined the Ultra Accelerator Link Consortium™ (UALink™), a new industry initiative focused on creating high-speed, low-latency open interconnect standards for scale-up AI systems. As a Contributor member, Lightmatter will apply its Passage™ technology—the industry’s first 3D-stacked photonic engine—to revolutionize accelerator-to-accelerator communication, enabling unprecedented performance in AI clusters.

Lightmatter, the leader in photonic supercomputing, today announced a strategic partnership with Amkor Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMKR), a leading provider of semiconductor packaging and test services, to create the largest-ever 3D-packaged chip complex utilizing Lightmatter’s innovative Passage™ platform. This collaboration harnesses Lightmatter’s groundbreaking 3D-stacked photonic engine along with Amkor’s advanced multi-die packaging expertise to meet the unprecedented interconnect scaling and power demands of today’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) workloads.

Lightmatter, the leader in photonic supercomputing, today announced a strategic collaboration with Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc. (ASE, a member of ASE Technology Holding Inc., NYSE: ASX, TWSE: 3711), the world’s largest semiconductor packaging and testing services provider. The partnership will focus on advancing Lightmatter’s Passage™ platform, the world’s first 3D-stacked photonics engine with pluggable fiber, to overcome the critical AI interconnect bottlenecks hindering today’s data center infrastructure. This breakthrough enables scaling to millions of XPUs at the speed of light to meet the unprecedented demands of AI workloads.

Lightmatter, the leader in photonic supercomputing, announced today it has raised a $400 million Series D, valuing the company at $4.4 billion and bringing the total capital raised to date to $850 million. The round was led by new investors advised by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. with participation from existing investors, including Fidelity Management & Research Company and GV (Google Ventures). With this financing, Lightmatter will ready Passage™ for mass deployment in partner data centers, enabling the scaling required for sustained AI innovation.

Lightmatter, the leader in photonic supercomputing, today announced it has appointed Richard Beyer and Robin Washington to its board of directors. Beyer and Washington join existing board members in supporting the company’s mission to power the next generation of computing systems to further enable AI innovation.

Lightmatter, the leader in photonic supercomputing, today announced the appointment of Simona Jankowski as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Bringing 20+ years of experience from NVIDIA and Goldman Sachs, Jankowski will drive Lightmatter’s financial functions and expansion, and sit on the executive team leading the company’s mission to transform the future of computing.

Lightmatter, the leader in photonics, announced today it has raised a $155M Series C-2 led by GV (Google Ventures) and Viking Global Investors, with participation from others. With this round, Lightmatter has raised over $420 million to date and is now valued at over $1.2B. This new financing allows the company to expedite growth to meet the increasing demand for high-performance computing (HPC) from AI innovators. Lightmatter plans to expand its world-class team and office footprint, while accelerating its ability to provide customers increased performance on the most advanced AI workloads.

Lightmatter, the leader in photonics, announced today that it raised a $154 million Series C investment round from SIP Global, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Viking Global Investors, GV (Google Ventures), HPE Pathfinder and existing investors. With this round, Lightmatter has raised a total of over $270 million to date. The company will leverage this new financing to arm some of the largest cloud providers, semiconductor companies, and enterprises with the power of photonic technology to bring a new level of performance and energy savings to the most advanced AI and HPC workloads.

Lightmatter, the leader in photonic computing, has named its new Vice President of Hardware Engineering, Richard Ho, who spent nearly 9 years at Google leading the revolutionary Cloud Tensor Processing Units (TPU) project. Ho will spearhead Lightmatter’s chip engineering division, with a focus on developing and deploying Lightmatter’s state-of-the-art photonic AI accelerator and wafer-scale interconnect for faster and cleaner computing solutions at scale.

Lightmatter, the leader in photonic computing, has named its new Vice President of Engineering, Ritesh Jain. He joins Lightmatter after more than 21 years at Intel leading systems and packaging engineering for data center programs. This follows the recent appointments of Jessie Zhang, VP of Finance, and Steve Klinger, VP of Product.

Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), known for investing in research that tackles some of the most difficult challenges in tech today, is funding a $4.8 million project spearheaded by Boston University College of Engineering, the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Lightmatter, the leader in photonic computing,

Lightmatter, the leader in photonic computing, today announced it has appointed Raghib Hussain, President of Products and Technologies at Marvell, to its board of directors. Raghib joins the Lightmatter board with over 20 years of experience driving innovative commercial strategy in communications, security, networking, computing and semiconductor technologies.

Today, Lightmatter announced CEO Nick Harris has been named to MIT Technology Review’s prestigious annual list of Innovators Under 35. Every year, the world-renowned media company has recognized a list of exceptionally talented technologists whose work has great potential to transform the world.

Lightmatter, the leader in photonic computing, today announced it has named Bob Turner its new Vice President of Sales and Sudarshan Yadav its new Head of Product. This announcement comes on the heels of Lightmatter’s $80M Series B investment round, led by Viking Global Investors, to fuel accelerated volume production and go-to-market strategy for its first generation hardware products.

Lightmatter, the leader in photonic computing, announced today that it has raised a $80 million Series B investment round, bringing total investment raised so far to $113 million. The round was led by Viking Global Investors with participation from GV (formerly Google Ventures), Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Lockheed Martin, Matrix Partners, SIP Global Partners, Spark Capital, and others.