Dr. Jinyu Mo reports

POET SELECTED BY MENTECH TO SUPPLY ENGINES FOR 800G AND 1.6T OPTICAL MODULES

Mentech Technology has selected Poet Technologies Inc.'s transmit-and-receive optical engines for use in the development of 800G pluggable transceiver and has placed purchase orders for those engines. The sample orders by Mentech are for initial builds and engineering development.

"Our end-users expect us to deliver great-performing products that allow them to reach their business goals and grow their market share. A key to our progress is having outstanding vendors who can ensure that our entire ecosystem remains innovative and cutting edge. Adding Poet's optical interposer platform technology helps us to expand our capabilities. The small form factor and flexibility of Poet's highly integrated optical engines allow us to smoothly transition our products to higher speeds when our customers are ready for us to do so," said Dr. Qian Yinbo, Mentech's chief technology officer.

Mentech is one of the world's largest suppliers of data communications and telecommunications components. Among its existing products are 200G to 800G optical modules that are part of networking infrastructure for data centres.

"Mentech is an industry leader that has achieved its success thanks to its talented and detail-oriented engineering team. Poet has worked closely with Mentech to reach this pivotal stage in our relationship, and we look forward to seeing their 800G and 1.6T modules, powered by Poet optical engines, out in the marketplace," said Dr. Jinyu Mo, Poet's senior vice-president and general manager in Asia.

Optical module design efforts usually take six to nine months followed by end-customer testing of an additional three to six months. Mentech is expecting an early launch of these new products incorporating Poet's optical engines.

About Poet Technologies Inc.

Poet is a design and development company offering high-speed optical engines, light source products and custom optical modules 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 across a broad range of communication, computing and sensing applications. Poet is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with operations in Allentown, Penn.; Shenzhen, China; and Singapore.

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