ICM HPQC Fund portfolio company Salience Labs has closed an oversubscribed US$125 million Series B funding round, led by Bullhound Capital, with strategic investment from AMD Ventures and Intel Capital. The funding will support the deployment of its silicon photonics-based optical switching technology, scale high-volume manufacturing and expand its US presence, advancing its ambition to address critical networking bottlenecks in AI data centres. Read the full announcement her

HPQC portfolio company Salience Labs showcased its 64-port silicon photonics-based all-optical circuit switch at ECOC 2026, demonstrating technology designed to support the growing networking demands of AI infrastructure. Its approach aims to enable faster, more efficient data movement between computing resources as AI systems scale. Read the full announcement here.

Salience Labs and Keysight Technologies have partnered to develop the industry’s first dedicated testing environment for optical circuit switching, a key technology for next-generation AI data centre networks. The platform enables validation and optimisation of all-optical switching systems, helping operators improve performance, reduce latency and lower power consumption. By providing advanced measurement and analysis capabilities, the collaboration aims to accelerate the de

Salience Labs has unveiled a 32-port all-optical silicon photonic switch designed to address critical networking bottlenecks in AI data centres. By replacing traditional electronic switching with fully optical connectivity, the technology significantly improves latency, throughput and energy efficiency while enabling scalable, high-bandwidth communication across thousands of GPUs. As the first in a broader portfolio of optical circuit switches, the platform represents a step

Salience Lab’s innovative architecture builds on Tower’s differentiated silicon photonics platforms to enable ultra-low latency, high-bandwidth, and energy-efficient optical connectivity tailored for AI cluster environments. Read the full update here .