Formerly doing business as OptiBit, Ayar Labs draws on the work of the firm's founders while at UC Berkeley, MIT, and CU Boulder. Head-quaretered in Santa Clara but with facilities iCambridge MA and Emeryville CA, the firm is organized around addressing the issue of burgeoning amount of data, Addressing enabling and supporting keep up with skyrocketing volumes of data by miniaturizing fiber optic transceivers and making them in silicon chips, bringing the super-high bandwidths and low energy use of fiber optics inside computers, the firm has built the first computer processor to communicate with light instead of electricity, a breakthrough that could significantly reduce the amount of energy needed to power computers, now responsible for over 10% of global energy use. Ayar Labs is building on this breakthrough to bring energy efficiency and bandwidth improvements to data centers and all electronics developing an optical I/O solution for applications that require high bandwidth and low latency using light to move data.
