Recently, the global semiconductor giant TSMC announced a partnership with U.S. startup Avicena to jointly produce Micro LED-based optical interconnect products. The goal is to replace traditional electrical connections with advanced optical communication technologies, providing low-cost, high-efficiency data transmission solutions to meet the surging communication demands of graphics processing unit (GPU). This move has drawn significant attention from the industry, sending two clear signals: First, it reflects a growing trend where Micro LED technology is gra...

Avicena, the leader in ultra-low power high-density microLED-based interconnects, announced today it has raised $65M in Series B Funding, bringing the total capital raised to $120M. The round was led by Tiger Global with participation from new and existing investors including Maverick Silicon, Prosperity7 Ventures, Venture Tech Alliance, SK hynix, Cerberus Capital Management, Hitachi Ventures and Lam Research. “This highly oversubscribed funding round is another testament that Avicena is in a leading position to disrupt the AI interconnect market, ...

San Diego, CA — March 6, 2023 — AvicenaTech Corp., a privately held company in Sunnyvale, CA, has partnered with ams OSRAM to develop high-volume manufacturing of GaN microLED arrays for its industry-leading LightBundle™ communication architecture. The need for next generation computing power is here, driven by strong AI/ML and HPC application demand – for products like ChatGPT, DALL-E, autonomous vehicle training, and many others. Attempts to scale current architectures are running headlong into physical limits leading to slow...

Avicena enhances its leadership position in microLED-based multi-Tbps chip-to-chip interconnects through the acquisition of a microLED fab facility and engineering team from Nanosys Mountain View, CA — October 18, 2022 — Avicena, the leader in high-performance microLED-based chip-to-chip interconnects, today announced that it has completed the acquisition of a microLED fabrication facility and associated engineering team from Nanosys.  This transaction significantly enhances Avicena’s capabilities in the development and man...

Samsung Catalyst Fund, Cerberus Capital Management, L.P., and Clear Ventures as well as strategic investor Micron Ventures participate in Series A to fast-track Avicena’s revolutionary interconnect technology MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AvicenaTech Corp., the leader in microLED-based chip-to-chip interconnects, today announced that the company has secured $25M in Series A funding from Samsung Catalyst Fund, Cerberus Capital Management, Clear Ventures, and Micron Ventures to drive the development of products bas...

Avicena partners with Lumileds to demonstrate microLED-based LightBundle™ chip-to-chip interconnects with superior energy efficiency and bandwidth density. CMOS wafer with transferred microLEDs (Photo: Business Wire) SAN DIEGO, March 07, 2022--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AvicenaTech Corp., a privately held company in Mountain View, CA, is demonstrating its LightBundle™ multi-Tbps chip-to-chip interconnect technology at the Optical Fiber Communications (OFC) Conference in San Diego, CA (https://www.ofcconference.org/en-us/home/...