Avicena Secures $25 Million Series A

MOUNTAIN VIEW — AvicenaTech Corp., a developer of microLED-based chip-to-chip interconnects, has secured $25 million in Series A funding from Samsung Catalyst Fund, Cerberus Capital Management, Clear Ventures, and Micron Ventures to drive the development of products based on Avicena’s breakthrough photonic I/O solution.
‘We believe that Avicena technology can be transformational in unlocking compute-to-memory chip-to-chip high-speed interconnects. Such technology can be central to supporting future disaggregated architectures and distributed high-performance computing (HPC) systems,’ said Marco Chisari, EVP of Samsung Electronics and Head of the Samsung Semiconductor Innovation Center.