MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Nov. 14, 2024 — Photonic supercomputing company Lightmatter today announced a strategic partnership with Amkor Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMKR), a provider of semiconductor packaging and test services, to create the largest-ever 3D-packaged chip complex utilizing Lightmatter’s innovative Passage platform. This collaboration harnesses Lightmatter’s groundbreaking 3D-stacked photonic engine along with Amkor’s advanced multi-die packaging expertise to […]

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BOSTON – Photonics computing company Lightmatter announced it has raised $154 million in a Series C investment round, bringing to $270 million that the company has raised. Participants in this latest round are SIP Global, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Viking Global Investors, GV (Google Ventures), HPE Pathfinder and existing investors. The company said it will […]

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BOSTON — Photonics company Lightmatter has named Richard Ho its new Vice President of Hardware Engineering. Ho spent nearly nine years at Google leading the Cloud Tensor Processing Units (TPU) project. At Lightmatter, Ho will spearhead Lightmatter’s chip engineering division with focus on developing and deploying Lightmatter’s photonic AI accelerator and wafer-scale interconnect, designed for […]

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