Hard Krypton Debut | Silicon Photonics Senior Team Receives Tens of Millions of Angel Round Financing, Targeting CPO/OIO Next-Generation Optical Interconnect Solutions

Hard Krypton learned that optical chip company Liangyin Technology recently completed tens of millions of yuan in angel round financing, led by Zhuhai Science and Technology Industry Group, followed by Zhuhai Zhengfang Group and Xianfeng. This financing will be used to expand the team, iterative tape-out and supplement equipment. Founded in 2024, Quangyin Technology focuses on the field of photonic integrated circuits and is committed to the development and application of silicon photonic transmission chips (PIC), Optical IO (OIO) and co-packaged optics (CPO). Tuyuan Enterprise The founding team of the company combines domestic and foreign R&D and manufacturing experience. Founder Li Yaoji has more than 30 years of experience in the integrated circuit industry. He served as Vice President of CUMEC Engineering of Chongqing United Microelectronics, Chief Technology Officer of Cadence China, and Deputy Director of the Hong Kong Branch of the National Application Specific Integrated Circuit System Engineering Technology Research Center. He has rich resources and technology accumulation in the semiconductor industry in the United States and China. Co-founder and CTO Zhao Jingxiong has served as the technical director of CUMEC and the technical director of Cisco and Intel in the United States. He has many years of experience in the architecture design of AI GPU/NPU/Switch/silicon photonic chips. Chief Scientist Craig Peterson is the general manager of Intel Microelectronics Center. He has many years of work experience at Intel and participated in the design of three processors and eight generations of chipsets. With the explosion of demand for generative AI and large model training, the scale of computing clusters is experiencing unprecedented exponential growth, and the transmission rate is moving towards 1.6T or even 3.2T. This means that traditional signal modulation methods face high power consumption, concentrated heat flow density, and high risks of physical link interruptions. Traditional electrical transmission networks based on pluggable optical modules are reaching the physical ceiling. In order to break the gap between supply and demand, deep integration of optical engines with computing chips or switching chips, that is, moving from pluggable mode to CPO and even OIO, has become the industry-recognized only path to ultra-high-speed optical interconnection. According to LightCounting/Yole predictions, CPO will be the first to explode in the next few years, and OIO, which will eventually penetrate into every high-end GPU/CPU, contains a potential market of hundreds of billions of dollars. Quantitative Science and Technology