SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 23, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- POET Technologies Inc. ("POET" or the "Company") (NASDAQ:POET), a leader in the design and implementation of highly-integrated optical engines and light sources for artificial intelligence networks, today announced its schedule for the upcoming 2025 ECOC Exhibition (September 28 to October 2) in Copenhagen, Denmark. The Company will participate in three industry events, all featuring Chief Revenue Officer Raju Kankipati:
- Market Focus panel on "The Challenges of Co-Packaged Optics"
- Product Focus discussion on "POET Teralight: Cost- and Performance-optimized Optical Engines for 1.6T Networks"
- Technical paper presentation on "Hybrid Integrated 1.6T 2xFR4 Transmitter PIC using a CMOS-based Optical Interposer".
POET is also nominated for an ECOC Award for "Most Innovative Hybrid PIC/Optical Integration Platform". Awards are announced on September 30 at Copenhagen's Bella Centre. POET executives, including Executive Chairman and CEO Dr. Suresh Venkatesan, will meet daily with current and prospective customers who have requested information about the Company and its industry-leading products that include 1.6T optical engines and high-powered external light sources.
"ECOC is one of our industry's most important annual events and we're excited to be in the spotlight to discuss our technology and our progress in detail as POET enters into volume production of optical engines," Dr. Venkatesan said.
Separately, POET announced that it has received an initial production order from one of its lead customers, valued in excess of US$500,000, for optical engines based on the POET Optical Interposer™ platform technology.
The optical engines that have been ordered are scheduled to ship in early 2026 and production is expected to grow to high volumes as the year progresses. The Company also stated that during the past few months it has fulfilled multiple orders from other customers for the purpose of high-speed transceiver module development.
About POET Technologies Inc.
POET is a design and development company offering high-speed optical modules, optical engines and light source products to the artificial intelligence systems market and to hyperscale data centers. POET's photonic integration solutions are based on the POET Optical Interposer™, a novel, patented platform that allows the seamless integration of electronic and photonic devices into a single chip using advanced wafer-level semiconductor manufacturing techniques. In addition to providing high-speed (800G, 1.6T and above) optical engines and optical modules for AI clusters and hyperscale data centers, POET has designed and produced novel light source products for chip-to-chip data communication within and between AI servers. POET is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with operations in Shenzhen, China, Singapore, and Malaysia. More information: poet-technologies.com.
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