Regina Garcia
Lockheed Martin will work with Santa Clara, California-based chip developer Ayar Labs to develop a sensory platform that utilizes the latter’s optical input/output microchips to help defense organizations in obtaining, mobilizing and handling spectral information.
Under the collaboration, the aerospace and defense company said Wednesday it will leverage Ayar Labs’ TeraPHY optical I/O chiplets and SuperNova remote light source to offer multi-chip package services aimed at providing a secure and efficient data transfer process.
Ayar Labs’ optical I/O microchips utilize light to send data faster at lower latency and at a fraction of the power of existing electrical I/O offerings.
“Ayar Labs’ optical interconnect solution provides the necessary technology to process spectral information with greater speed and lower latency for next-generation system designs,” said Steve Walker, chief technology officer and vice president for engineering and technology at Lockheed.
