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Californian Optical Switch Start-Up Benefits from $58 Million Worth of Further Investment Emerging photonics firm, nEye Systems has just completed its series B funding round. Interest in the high radix, MEMS-based optical switch technology that it is pioneering has resulted in hefty financial contributions from several industry heavyweights - including NVIDIA , Alphabet, CapitalG, M12, Microsoft's Venture Fund, Socratic Partners and Micron Ventures. The $58 million in financial backing secured during this round brings the total overall investment in the company, which was founded 5 years ago by UC Berkeley academics, to beyond $72 million. By providing direct optical connections, its switch devices have the potential to offer multiple orders of magnitude enhancements in terms of their speed, power consumption, size and unit cost. “nEye’s ground-breaking technology has the potential to significantly improve the efficiency and scalability of AI infrastructure,” James Luo, General Partner at CapitalG, comments. “Their innovative optical circuit switch addresses critical bottlenecks facing data centres and high-performance computing. We are thrilled to partner with Prof. Ming Wu and the entire nEye team on their audacious journey to redefine the landscape of AI computing.” “We are thrilled to have the support of CapitalG and our other esteemed investors as we scale our optical switch technology,” adds Prof. Ming Wu, nEye Co-Founder. “Our wafer-scale approach, backed by years of research at UC Berkeley, positions us to transform the AI fabric and enable the next generation of high-performance computing.” Tae Joon Seok Kyungmok Kwon Heng (Henry) Huang, Ph.D. Sergio Fabian Almeida Melissa Chaika Sobel Xiaosheng Zhang Dakai Z. KaoSio Saechao Aidan Bannon Giridar Vishwanathan Farhad Shokraneh

nEye Systems has secured $72.5 million in funding to advance its optical switch technology. The funding round was led by CapitalG, with participation from M12, Microsoft's Venture Fund, Micron Technology, NVIDIA, and Socratic Partners. nEye's technology aims to address communication bottlenecks in data centers and AI systems by offering a more efficient and cost-effective solution with its optical circuit switch. James Luo from CapitalG said nEye's technology could significantly improve AI infrastructure efficiency and scalability. Read more: https://lnkd.in/enbmr_Hr 📰 Subscribe to the weekly Silicon Brief Newsletter: https://lnkd.in/ejfzg92J #ai #artificialintelligence #ainews #aifunding #aichips #datacenters #gpu #datacenterpower

nEye Systems, the optical switch startup founded by the work done at the University of California, Berkeley's Ming Wu Lab, has raised $58M in Series B funding led by CapitalG, with participation from M12, Microsoft's Venture Fund, Micron Ventures, NVIDIA, and Socratic Partners. Their breakthrough wafer-scale optical circuit switch is set to transform AI infrastructure by eliminating bandwidth and power bottlenecks in data centers and HPC. https://lnkd.in/eFtmXJjp #AIInfrastructure #Photonics #OpticalSwitching #Datacenters #StartupFunding #UC Berkeley #nEyeSystems Tae Joon Seok Kyungmok Kwon Xiaosheng Zhang Melissa Chaika Sobel

nEye Systems has secured $72.5 million to advance its optical switch technology. The funding round was led by CapitalG, with participation from M12, Microsoft's Venture Fund, Micron Ventures, NVIDIA, and Socratic Partners. nEye's technology aims to address communication bottlenecks in data centers and AI systems by offering a more efficient and cost-effective solution with direct optical connections. James Luo from CapitalG said nEye's technology could significantly improve AI infrastructure efficiency and scalability. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eAnmfSkA 📰 Subscribe to the weekly AI Funding News Newsletter: https://lnkd.in/enH99b34 #ai #artificialintelligence #ainews #aifunding

Exciting News: nEye Systems Secures $58M Series B Funding! 💫 Led by Ming Wu, a pioneer in silicon photonics with over 600 papers and 53 patents, nEye has developed a breakthrough Optical Circuit Switch (OCS) that transmits data using light instead of traditional electrical pathways. Their technology delivers impressive specs compared to alternatives: 100x smaller footprint 1,000x lower power consumption 10,000x faster switching speeds 10x more cost-effective The investment round was led by CapitalG (the growth fund of Alphabet Inc.), with participation from NVIDIA, Micron Ventures, M12, Microsoft's Venture Fund, and Socratic Partners As AI models grow increasingly complex, nEye's technology aims to solve critical data bottlenecks that currently limit AI advancement in data centers worldwide. Learn more about their journey: https://lnkd.in/gymM6iBh