Optical networking chip startup nEye Systems Inc. has raised $58 million in funding, led by CapitalG and with participation from Microsoft, Micron Ventures, Nvidia, and Socratic Partners.
nEye is developing a networking chip that uses optical technology for faster chip-to-chip communications in AI data centers.
Its wafer-scale optical circuit switch offers unlimited bandwidth and is about 100 times smaller, 1,000 times more energy efficient, 10,000 times faster, and 10 times less expensive than existing interconnects.
nEye is also developing an intelligent optical circuit switch that optimizes chip-to-chip connections within data centers based on software requirements.