AI Accelerators

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Wednesday, 14 October 2026

Salience Labs secures $125M to scale photonic chips for AI data centres

Tech.eu 18 hours ago 1

Salience Labs raised $125 million in an oversubscribed Series B to scale its photonic chip technology for AI data-centre optical switching. The round aims to accelerate deployment after the company demonstrated a 64-port all-optical photonic switch at ECOC 2026. The funding supports wider manufacturing and product development, including planned 128-port and 256-port switches, plus added locations and engineering hires.

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The AI boom is sending Silicon Valley back to the future with a massive, $5 billion facility for advanced AI chips

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Applied Materials unveiled its new EPIC semiconductor R&D facility at its Sunnyvale, California campus to bring multiple chip companies into the same lab for early work on microprocessors and memory. The project is a $5 billion, 600,000-square-foot center. This co-location is intended to cut the “concept to commercialization” timeline from 10–12 years to as little as six and speed up next-generation AI-related chip development.