Ayar Labs Enters Collaboration with Fabless Semiconductor Company Alchip
SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 9, 2025 — Ayar Labs has established a strategic partnership with Taiwan-based application-specific integrated chip (ASIC) and packaging technologies developer Alchip Technologies. The collaboration seeks to enable multi-rack scale-up system architectures, implementing Ayar Labs’ optical I/O technology into Alchips's high-performance ASICs.
The combination, Ayar Labs said, unlocks high-bandwidth, low-latency connectivity for extended memory and computing resources across larger systems and data centers, dramatically improving interactivity while reducing power consumption.
The collaboration will additionally benefit from advanced packaging and process technologies from TSMC; using TSMC’s packaging and silicon technologies, including COUPE, TSMC-SoIC, and advanced process nodes, Ayar Labs and Alchip aim to enable the development of new system architectures.
Ayar Labs and Alchip will share additional details on their partnership and joint co-packaged optics solutions for AI data center scale-up in the coming weeks, the companies said. News of the collaboration comes roughly six weeks after Ayar's opening of an office in Taiwan. The company said in July that it plans to use the Taiwan facility to closely collaborate with the Taiwan semiconductor ecosystem and leverage the region’s talent pool.
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Published: September 2025
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- integrated photonics
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