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Salience Labs Raises $125M for Photonic Networking Chips

Original: Salience Labs Secures $125M for Photonic Networking Chips | Business | Oct 2026

Salience Labs has secured $125 million in funding to develop photonic networking chips, which use light rather than electrical signals to move data. The Oxford-born startup is part of a wave of companies betting that optical interconnects will ease the bandwidth and power bottlenecks facing AI data centers, and the round ranks among the larger raises in the sector this year.

Why now: Investors and the semiconductor industry are watching optical interconnects as a key technology for scaling AI data center infrastructure.

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• Salience Labs Secures $125M for Photonic Networking Chips | Business | Oct 2026 · Photonics Spectra

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