SAN JOSE – June 11, 2024 – Optical interconnect firm Ayar Labs in the present day introduced the appointment of Pooya Tadayon as its Vice President of Packaging and Check. Tadayon was previously a Fellow and Director of Meeting & Check Pathfinding inside Intel’s Meeting and Check Know-how Improvement (ATTD) group.
Tadayon brings to Ayar Labs greater than two and a half many years of expertise, with a latest concentrate on superior packaging applied sciences, in addition to meeting and take a look at options for co-packaged optics that may scale to excessive quantity. He holds 47 patents and has over three dozen pending, in areas together with take a look at interconnect expertise, thermal expertise, and bundle/product structure.
“The demand for photonics expertise is quickly rising to fulfill the bandwidth and vitality necessities of AI,” mentioned Tadayon. “My aim at Ayar Labs is to speed up meeting and take a look at ecosystem maturation to help the volumes being projected for optical I/O in AI connectivity.”
Tadayon will lead the creation of an environment friendly OSAT (outsourced semiconductor meeting and take a look at) course of that may allow the photonics ecosystem and speed up the adoption of Ayar Labs’ options.
“Pooya brings a strategic benefit to Ayar Labs together with his deep experience in fixing complicated packaging and testing challenges in large-scale, multi-die methods for high-volume manufacturing,” mentioned Mark Wade, CEO and Co-Founding father of Ayar Labs. “His pioneering work positions us to considerably enhance manufacturing of our optical I/O options to hundreds of thousands of items of quantity to fulfill the rising demand for AI scale-up materials.”
The corporate companions with the world’s main OSATs to make sure its optical I/O options could be manufactured at scale and built-in seamlessly into AI methods. In recent times, Ayar Labs has additionally made important investments in hiring take a look at, validation and gear engineers, buying wafer testers, and growing a collection of checks for the optical and electrical interfaces of its chiplets.
The addition of Tadayon to Ayar Labs’ workforce builds on the corporate’s momentum within the first half of 2024, together with the addition of industry veterans to the corporate’s Board of Administrators and a brand new CTO to speed up progress. At OFC 2024, Ayar Labs demonstrated their optical I/O answer with the business’s first CW-WDM MSA-compliant 16-wavelength light source able to driving 256 optical carriers to attain 16 Tbps of bi-directional bandwidth – a degree that’s important for AI workloads.
