A privately owned firm in Sunnyvale, California, Avicena Tech Corp., has teamed with ams OSRAM to create high-volume manufacture of GaN microLED arrays for its industry-leading LightBundleTM communication architecture.
AI/ML and HPC application demand is driving the need for next-generation computing power for products such as ChatGPT, DALL-E, and autonomous car training, among others. Efforts to scale present designs collide with physical limitations, resulting in slower throughput growth, power-hungry, and difficult-to-cool systems.
The Avicena LightBundle design breaks new ground by releasing the performance of xPUs, memory, and sensors, while simultaneously reducing power consumption by an order of magnitude.
LightBundleTM is based on arrays of unique GaN LED micro-emitters that are compatible with high-performance CMOS integrated circuits. This utilizes new microLED manufacturing ecosystems in which ams OSRAM is a prominent participant.
“We acquired our fab from Nanosys in October to accelerate our development efforts and support low-volume prototype manufacturing,” says Bardia Pezeshki, founder and CEO of Avicena. “However, we are addressing very sizeable markets requiring high-volume manufacturing. We are very pleased to partner with one of the world’s top GaN LED companies to provide a path to satisfy the expected high volumes required by our customers, including hyper-scale data center operators and the world’s leading IC companies.”
“Avicena’s LightBundle technology provides an opportunity for GaN microLEDs to impact numerous key applications including HPC, AI/ML, sensors, automotive, and aerospace,” says Robert Feurle, Executive Vice President and Managing Director, of the OS Business Unit at ams OSRAM. “As a global leader in GaN LEDs, we are excited to partner with Avicena to transform these very large and important markets.”
