Astera Labs to Acquire aiXscale Photonics
Nasdaq-listed AI infrastructure provider Astera Labs has agreed to acquire German startup aiXscale Photonics.
Astera Labs, a Silicon Valley company, specializes in high-speed interconnects for rack-scale AI infrastructure and aims to utilize fiber-chip coupling in photonic scale-up solutions.
- aiXscale Photonics, founded by Jeremy Witzens and Florian Merget, has developed proprietary wafer-scale precision glass molding technology.
- The firm's ultra-high-precision optical glass interposer solutions provide reliable, low-loss, and cost-effective assembly of optical transceiver sub-assemblies and co-packaged optics.
The acquisition is expected to help enable Astera Labs to develop photonic scale-up solutions by combining aiXscale's fiber-chip coupling technologies with Astera Labs' connectivity and signal processing portfolio.
Author's summary: Astera Labs acquires aiXscale Photonics for photonic scale-up solutions.