Mr. Thomas Mika reports

POET TECHNOLOGIES TO PROCEED WITH VOLUNTARY DELISTING FROM TSXV

Poet Technologies Inc. will shortly be proceeding with the previously announced voluntary delisting of its common shares from the TSX Venture Exchange. The delisting from the TSX-V will not affect the company's listing on the Nasdaq Capital Market and Poet's shares will continue to be listed on Nasdaq under the symbol POET.

Poet has submitted the required application and received approval for the delisting. The company expects that effective as of the close of trading on or about Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2025, Poet's shares will no longer be listed and posted for trading on the TSX-V. The listing of Poet's shares on Nasdaq will be unaffected.

Trading on Nasdaq represents the vast majority of the company's trading volume. The company believes that delisting from the TSX-V will create a central marketplace for its shares on Nasdaq, and will improve long-term liquidity and enhance shareholder value.

Poet will remain a reporting issuer under applicable Canadian securities laws and will continue to provide regular comprehensive disclosure in accordance with its securities law obligations.

Following delisting from the TSX-V, Poet's shareholders can trade their shares through their brokers on Nasdaq. Poet's Nasdaq listing will continue to provide shareholders with the same accessibility to trade the company's shares. Shareholders holding Poet shares in Canadian brokerage accounts should contact their brokers to confirm how to trade Poet's shares on Nasdaq.

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 centres. 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. Poet's Optical Interposer-based products are lower cost, consume less power than comparable products, are smaller in size and are readily scalable to high production volumes. In addition to providing high-speed (800G, 1.6T and above) optical engines and optical modules for AI (artificial intelligence) clusters and hyperscale data centres, Poet has designed and produced novel light source products for chip-to-chip data communication within and between AI servers, the next frontier for solving bandwidth and latency problems in AI systems. Poet's Optical Interposer platform also solves device integration challenges in 5G networks, machine-to-machine communication and self-contained Edge computing applications and sensing applications, such as lidar (light detectionn and ranging) systems for autonomous vehicles. Poet is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with operations in Allentown, Pa., Shenzhen, China, and Singapore.

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