POET Wins “Best Optical AI Solution” in 2024 AI Breakthrough Awards Program

POET Technologies Inc. (“POET” or the “Company”) (TSX Venture: PTK; NASDAQ: POET), the designer and developer of the POET Optical Interposer™, Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) and light sources for the data center, tele-communication and AI markets, today announced that it has been selected as winner of the 

“Best Optical AI Solution”

 award in the seventh annual AI Breakthrough Awards program conducted by AI Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies and products in the global Artificial Intelligence (AI) market today.

POET’s breakthrough microchip solution, the POET Optical Interposer™, enables optical communication using a silicon-based hybrid integration platform. The optical interposer combines electrical and optical layers in a single chip for highly integrated transceivers and enables the replacement of copper with light-based optical data communication between chips in high-speed computing.

“With POET’s technology, AI hardware developers can deploy next-generation networks that outperform existing solutions, reduce costs, and improve power efficiency. This is a period of high demand for 800G transceivers, and while an optical engine is not a complete transceiver, it includes all but one of a transceiver’s major components, and it can represent well over 50% of the cost,” said Steve Johansson, managing director, AI Breakthrough. “POET is powering the age of photonics with innovative products that seamlessly integrate into existing networking infrastructure and give developers the ability to build high-speed and low-latency networks using an optical solution that is highly scalable and at the desired cost structure.”

The optical interposer platform is the foundation on which POET designs its line of products, including POET Wavelight™, a pluggable transceiver that can be used for up to 2km of reach over single-mode fiber and POET Starlight™, a source for multiple wavelengths of light, powering external silicon photonics modulators and managing the data flow among chips. POET is also developing 800G and 1.6T optical transceiver modules in collaboration with key customers and partners like Luxshare, Foxconn Interconnect Technology and MultiLane Inc., and recently initiated a 3.2T optical engine program with a major laser supplier.

“Our vision is to enable the semiconductorization of photonics. The low-cost integration scheme and scalability of our POET Optical Interposer brings value to any device or system that integrates electronics and photonics,” said Dr. Suresh Venkatesan, POET’s Chairman and CEO. “Winning ‘Best Optical AI Solution’ from AI Breakthrough validates our exclusive focus on advanced optical engine, module and external light source solutions for AI applications.”

Johansson says the mission of the AI Breakthrough Awards is to honor excellence and recognize the innovation, hard work, and success in a range of AI and machine-learning related categories. This year’s program attracted more than 5,000 nominations from over 20 countries. Along with POET, other winners included Nvidia, AMD, and other notable names.

For a video of Dr. Venkatesan discussing more about POET's recognition from the AI Breakthrough Awards, watch this interview published on the Company's YouTube channel:https://youtu.be/5FCxP4GdokI

About POET Technologies Inc.POET is a design and development company offering integration solutions based on the POET Optical Interposer™, a novel platform that allows the seamless integration of electronic and photonic devices into a single multi-chip module using advanced wafer-level semiconductor manufacturing techniques and packaging methods. POET’s Optical Interposer eliminates costly components and labor-intensive assembly, alignment, burn-in and testing methods employed in conventional photonics. The cost-efficient integration scheme and scalability of the POET Optical Interposer brings value to any device or system that integrates electronics and photonics, including some of the highest growth areas of computing, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), autonomous vehicles and high-speed networking for cloud service providers and data centers. POET is headquartered in Toronto, with operations in Allentown, PA, Shenzhen, China and Singapore. More information may be obtained at www.poet-technologies.com.

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