<ul><li>Optical chip interconnect startup Ayar Labs has raised $155 million in a funding round led by Advent Global Opportunities and Light Street Capital.</li><li>Several leading chipmakers, including Nvidia, AMD, Intel, and GlobalFoundries, also participated in the funding round.</li><li>Ayar Labs aims to address bottlenecks in AI by using optical interconnects, which can transmit more data faster compared to traditional electrical interconnects.</li><li>With the funding, Ayar Labs plans to scale its optical interconnect module, TeraPHY, to enable faster chip-to-chip communications.</li></ul>

Optical chip interconnect startup Ayar raises $155M to bring light to AI workloads

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