LightSpeed Photonics develops compact optical interconnects designed to replace traditional electrical copper wiring in high-bandwidth applications. Their LightKonnect products facilitate chip-to-chip and card-to-card communication using solderable optical modules. This technology supports data centers, edge computing, and telecom infrastructure by enabling higher density and performance optical links.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
AVFounders
Product
Problem
Data centers and near-edge computing environments face increasing demands for high data bandwidth and low latency, while struggling with power consumption and footprint limitations associated with traditional electrical interconnects. Existing copper wire solutions create bottlenecks in chip-to-chip and card-to-card communication, hindering overall system performance.
Solution
Lightspeed Photonics develops modular optoelectronic processors and interconnects designed to overcome the limitations of electrical interconnects. Their LightSiP™ system combines reconfigurable electronics with high data rate, free-space optical interconnects (LightKonnect™) to enable efficient chip-to-chip communication. This approach reduces data latency, lowers power consumption, and increases data bandwidth, resulting in improved performance per watt. The LightSiP™ system creates a scalable server architecture by integrating compute and interconnect in a heterogeneous System-in-Package.
Target Audience
The primary target audience includes data centers, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) providers, telecom companies, 5G network operators, and edge computing infrastructure developers.
Features
- LightKonnect™: A solderable, compact optical interconnect for chip-to-chip and card-to-card communication, replacing traditional copper wires.
- LightKonnect Fiber™: A solderable compact optical interconnect terminating at a 24 fiber MTP/MTO connector, designed to replace optical transceivers.
- Modular compute+interconnect heterogeneous System-in-Package (SiP) design.
- Reconfigurable electronics for computing power.
- Protocol-agnostic chip-to-chip communication.