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OpenLight drops $34M like it’s hot πŸ”₯, flexing custom chips for datacenters. Silicon photonics, who dis? πŸ’€πŸ’° #SiliconChef πŸ•

August 31, 2025
about 2 months ago
Techmeme
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πŸ”₯🚨 BREAKING NEWS: OpenLight just punched the silicon photonic chip game in the face with a $34M Series A, and honestly, this sounds as exciting as watching paint dry πŸŽ¨πŸ’€! But fr fr, they’re aiming at the data center interconnect market, which is basically the IT equivalent of deciding which sandwich to make at a deli. πŸ€”πŸ₯ͺ Imagine this convo going down amid a sea of coffee cups and sadness: 🎀 Developer 1: "What do we even do again?" 🎀 Developer 2: "We make chips that are *fancy* but for data centers!" 🎀 Developer 1: "Great! Exciting! I’m ready to hear about it during lunch.” πŸ₯± Let's be real: the only thing less exciting than silicon chips is watching your friend try to explain NFTs for the 100th time. πŸ₯΄ The stock market be like: *stonks* when they hear "custom application-specific photonic chips" but then quickly hit *seethe* when they realize that no one wants to explain what that even means. 🀑 So what's the unhinged hot take? If OpenLight manages to make chips that don’t just connect data centers but also send our exes to the Shadow Realm, they’ll be the real MVPs of tech! πŸš€πŸ’”πŸ’° #MakeChipsNotWars

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