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POET Technologies and Vanguard Automation Collaborate on Solutions for Co-packaged Optics and AI-ML Applications

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Monday, March 6, 2023

The POET O-Band LightBar™ solution will soon incorporate Vanguard Automation's Micro-Lenses, advancing scalability for data centers and the AI-ML market.

Key Points: 
  • The POET O-Band LightBar™ solution will soon incorporate Vanguard Automation's Micro-Lenses, advancing scalability for data centers and the AI-ML market.
  • “The number one requirement for the POET Optical Interposer is to maintain a passive, wafer-level assembly process for POET-designed optical engines and light source products.
  • “Our optical interposer together with Vanguard Automation’s Facet-Attached-Micro-Lenses creates a powerful platform for electro-optical engines for transceivers, co-packaged optics, light engines and sensing devices.
  • POET expects to start sampling LightBar products incorporating Vanguard Automation’s Micro-Lenses to customers in the second half of 2023.

MACOM Announces Availability of 226Gbps per Lane Product Family Targeted for 1.6Tbps Optical Modules

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Tuesday, March 7, 2023

MACOM Technology Solutions Inc. (“MACOM”), a leading supplier of semiconductor products, announced today the release of a 226Gbps per lane technology product family that can enable the development of 1.6TB optical modules.

Key Points: 
  • MACOM Technology Solutions Inc. (“MACOM”), a leading supplier of semiconductor products, announced today the release of a 226Gbps per lane technology product family that can enable the development of 1.6TB optical modules.
  • The product family includes MACOM transimpedance amplifiers (“TIAs”) MATA-40734 and MATA-40736, Externally Modulated Laser (“EML”) driver MAOM-011112 and photodiode MARP-BP112.
  • Bringing this product family to market extends MACOM’s portfolio of products to 1.6Tbps small form-factor optical module applications.
  • The 200G per lane technology product family is available for sampling upon request.

POET Technologies Introduces “POET Infinity” – a Chiplet-based Transmitter Platform for 400G, 800G and 1.6T Data Center Solutions

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Thursday, March 2, 2023

TORONTO, March 02, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- POET Technologies Inc. (“POET” or the “Company”) (TSX Venture: PTK; NASDAQ: POET), the designer and developer of the POET Optical Interposer™ and Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) for the data center, telecommunication and artificial intelligence markets, today announced “POET Infinity™”, a chiplet-based transmitter platform for 400G, 800G and 1.6T pluggable transceivers and co-packaged optics solutions.

Key Points: 
  • TORONTO, March 02, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- POET Technologies Inc. (“POET” or the “Company”) (TSX Venture: PTK; NASDAQ: POET), the designer and developer of the POET Optical Interposer™ and Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) for the data center, telecommunication and artificial intelligence markets, today announced “POET Infinity™”, a chiplet-based transmitter platform for 400G, 800G and 1.6T pluggable transceivers and co-packaged optics solutions.
  • POET will showcase a live demonstration of early samples at the 2023 Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibition (OFC) in San Diego from March 7-9 in Booth #5311.
  • The POET Infinity chiplet incorporates 100G PAM4 directly modulated lasers (DML), DML drivers and an integrated optical multiplexer for a complete 400GBASE-FR4 transmitter solution on a chip.
  • The small size of the chiplet and a daisy chain architecture enable side-by-side placement of multiple chiplets to achieve 800G and 1.6T speeds.

POET Technologies and Beijing FeiYunYi Technology Reach Agreement on Purchase of Custom Optical Engines for Telecom Industry

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Wednesday, February 22, 2023

The agreement, valued at up to $1 million over a two-year period, includes NRE for POET and an initial purchase order for 10,000 units that will be used to sample customers.

Key Points: 
  • The agreement, valued at up to $1 million over a two-year period, includes NRE for POET and an initial purchase order for 10,000 units that will be used to sample customers.
  • BFYY was recently formed for the purpose of selling modules using POET-designed optical engines sourced from POET’s joint venture company, Super Photonics Xiamen (“SPX”).
  • POET has agreed to design a single-chip optical engine solution, that incorporates complete transmit and receive functionalities for implementation in a 100G optical transceiver for BFYY’s initial product offering.
  • The unique single-chip solution, called ”POET ONE™”, will offer significant performance advantages along with minimizing the transceiver design cycle time for BFYY.

POET Technologies to Demonstrate 800G Optical Engines and Light Source Products at OFC 2023

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Tuesday, February 14, 2023

TORONTO, Feb. 14, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- POET Technologies Inc. (“POET” or the “Company”) (TSX Venture: PTK; NASDAQ: POET), the designer and developer of the POET Optical Interposer™ and Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) for the data center, telecommunication and artificial intelligence markets, today announced that it will be hosting live demonstrations of its advanced optical engine and light source products at the 2023 Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibition (OFC) .

Key Points: 
  • TORONTO, Feb. 14, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- POET Technologies Inc. (“POET” or the “Company”) (TSX Venture: PTK; NASDAQ: POET), the designer and developer of the POET Optical Interposer™ and Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) for the data center, telecommunication and artificial intelligence markets, today announced that it will be hosting live demonstrations of its advanced optical engine and light source products at the 2023 Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibition (OFC) .
  • POET's executive leadership will be at OFC, March 7– March 9, to showcase the Company’s latest technology in Booth #5311.
  • “We have several advanced products to demonstrate at OFC 2023 that we expect to attract substantial customer interest,” said Raju Kankipati, Senior Vice President and USA GM at POET Technologies.
  • We will also be demonstrating and showing mechanical samples of our innovative LightBar products, an essential component for AI-ML accelerator GPUs, an emerging but potentially huge market.

POET Technologies Announces Acceleration of Warrants

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Friday, February 10, 2023

TORONTO, Feb. 10, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- POET Technologies Inc. ("POET" or the "Corporation") (TSXV: 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 artificial intelligence markets, announces today that the expiry date of all common share purchase warrants of the Corporation (the "Warrants") that were issued on February 11, 2021, is being accelerated to 30 days (the "Warrant Acceleration") in accordance with the terms of the warrant indenture governing the Warrants dated February 11, 2021, as amended and supplemented (the "Warrant Indenture").

Key Points: 
  • TORONTO, Feb. 10, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- POET Technologies Inc. ("POET" or the "Corporation") (TSXV: 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 artificial intelligence markets, announces today that the expiry date of all common share purchase warrants of the Corporation (the "Warrants") that were issued on February 11, 2021, is being accelerated to 30 days (the "Warrant Acceleration") in accordance with the terms of the warrant indenture governing the Warrants dated February 11, 2021, as amended and supplemented (the "Warrant Indenture").
  • Accordingly, the expiry date of all unexercised Warrants has been accelerated such that all Warrants will expire at 5:00 p.m. (Toronto time) on March 10, 2023 (being 30 calendar day following the triggering of the Warrant Acceleration).
  • As of February 3, 2023, approximately 1,478,203 Warrants remain unexercised.
  • Each Warrant is exercisable to acquire one Common Share at an exercise price of $4.25 per Common Share.

POET Technologies Partners with LuxshareTech and Announces Availability of 400G and 800G Receive Optical Engines

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Thursday, February 2, 2023

TORONTO, Feb. 02, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --  POET Technologies Inc. (“POET” or the “Company”) (TSX Venture: PTK; NASDAQ: POET), the designer and developer of the POET Optical Interposer™ and Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) for the data center, telecommunication and artificial intelligence markets, today announced that it has started sampling 400G FR4 and 800G 2xFR4 receive optical engines (RXOEs).

Key Points: 
  • TORONTO, Feb. 02, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --  POET Technologies Inc. (“POET” or the “Company”) (TSX Venture: PTK; NASDAQ: POET), the designer and developer of the POET Optical Interposer™ and Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) for the data center, telecommunication and artificial intelligence markets, today announced that it has started sampling 400G FR4 and 800G 2xFR4 receive optical engines (RXOEs).
  • POET will partner with Luxshare Technology Co., Ltd. (“LuxshareTech”), a global technology provider for data-communication facilities and enterprise-level products to enable the sale of power-efficient and cost-optimized 400G and 800G transceiver solutions.
  • "LuxshareTech is focused on expanding its 400G and 800G pluggable transceivers portfolio for the data center market,” said Mike Gao, GM of LuxshareTech’s Opto-electronic business unit.
  • The 400G and 800G RXOEs achieve superior performance through better integration of photodiodes and TIA and exceed the industry standard specifications for 400GBASE-FR4 interfaces.

POET Technologies Announces Amendment of Warrant Terms

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Monday, January 23, 2023

TORONTO, Jan. 23, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- POET Technologies Inc. ("POET" or the "Corporation") (TSXV: 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 artificial intelligence markets, is pleased to announce that, further to its news release dated December 22, 2022, it has completed the amendment to the terms of 1,764,720 common share purchase warrants of the Corporation (the "Warrants") that were issued pursuant to a private placement that closed on February 11, 2021.

Key Points: 
  • TORONTO, Jan. 23, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- POET Technologies Inc. ("POET" or the "Corporation") (TSXV: 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 artificial intelligence markets, is pleased to announce that, further to its news release dated December 22, 2022, it has completed the amendment to the terms of 1,764,720 common share purchase warrants of the Corporation (the "Warrants") that were issued pursuant to a private placement that closed on February 11, 2021.
  • As a result of the amendments, the Warrants are now exercisable to acquire one common share of the Corporation (each, a "Common Share") at an exercise price of C$4.25 per Common Share until 5:00 p.m. (Toronto time) on May 11, 2023.
  • All other terms and conditions of the Warrants remain the same.
  • A video interview with Kevin Barnes, POET’s VP of Finance and Administration, explaining the details of the warrant amendments and the use of warrants in general, is available at https://youtu.be/iSBjGdTO1fo .

POET Technologies Announces a Strategic Collaboration with ADVA for Highly Integrated 4x100G Solutions

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Wednesday, January 18, 2023

“ADVA’s MicroMux™ Quattro brings the industry’s smallest aggregation technology all the way to the network core.

Key Points: 
  • “ADVA’s MicroMux™ Quattro brings the industry’s smallest aggregation technology all the way to the network core.
  • Engineered as a standard-compliant plug in a QSFP-DD form factor, it fits into a 400Gbit/s socket, enabling it to meet legacy needs.
  • “POET’s Optical Interposer platform provides a high level of photonic integration to provide unique solutions in miniature form factors.
  • The Company’s 100GBASE-LR4 optical engines are the industry’s first implementation of chip-on-board solutions for the 100G LR4 market.

POET Technologies Announces Production Release of Optical Engines for 100G, 200G and 400G for Telecom and Data Center Market

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Tuesday, January 10, 2023

The small form factor optical engines with integrated directly modulated lasers (DMLs), optical multiplexer, high-speed photodiodes and optical demultiplexer enable low power, cost-efficient and highly scalable 100G CWDM4, 200G FR4 and 400G FR4 pluggable transceivers for telecom and data center markets.

Key Points: 
  • The small form factor optical engines with integrated directly modulated lasers (DMLs), optical multiplexer, high-speed photodiodes and optical demultiplexer enable low power, cost-efficient and highly scalable 100G CWDM4, 200G FR4 and 400G FR4 pluggable transceivers for telecom and data center markets.
  • POET reached its production release milestones while working with Super Photonics, the joint venture company formed with Sanan IC of Xiamen, China.
  • POET and Super Photonics have jointly completed design verification testing and reliability testing of the optical engines per relevant industry standards.
  • The receive optical engines for 100G CWDM4, 200G FR4 and 400G FR4 have four high-speed photodiodes and an optical demultiplexer integrated in a compact form factor.