总部位于埃因霍温的Photon Bridge筹集了1000万欧元，由Amadeus APEX Technology Fund和360 Capital共同牵头，用于为AI数据中心内部的光链路制造激光光源。该公司计划2027年推出首批样品，2028年开始批量生产。
Eindhoven-based Photon Bridge has raised €10M, co-led by the Amadeus APEX Technology Fund and 360 Capital, to build laser light sources for the optical links inside AI data centres. It plans first samples in 2027 and volume production from 2028.
总部位于埃因霍温的初创公司Photon Bridge为AI数据中心制造激光光源，该公司周三表示，已筹集1000万欧元。Amadeus APEX Technology Fund和360 Capital共同牵头了此轮融资。
Photon Bridge, an Eindhoven startup that makes laser light sources for AI data centres, has raised €10M, the company said on Wednesday. The Amadeus APEX Technology Fund and 360 Capital co-led the round.
现有投资者Innovation Industries、Faber和布拉班特发展局（BOM）也追加了资金。该公司去年之前名为Photon IP，当时在种子轮融资中筹集了475万欧元。
Existing investors Innovation Industries, Faber and the Brabant Development Agency (BOM) also put in more money. The company was called Photon IP until last year, when it raised €4.75M in seed funding.
AI数据中心越来越多地使用光而非铜线在芯片之间传输数据。这些光链路需要激光器提供光源。供应链是为电信行业建立的，而电信行业所需的激光器远少于此。
AI data centres increasingly use light, rather than copper wires, to move data between chips. Those optical links need lasers to supply the light. The supply chain was built for telecoms, which needs far fewer of them.
“该行业很快每年将需要数百万个此类激光光源，”Photon Bridge首席执行官Paul Marchal表示。
“The industry will soon need millions of these laser sources every year,” said Paul Marchal, Photon Bridge’s chief executive.
Photon Bridge不是制造一台强大的激光器，而是将几台不同波长的较弱激光器的光结合起来，并通过一根光纤传输。较弱的激光器在生产中不太可能失效，因此更多的激光器能通过测试，该公司表示。其设计目标是每个波长的功率高达40毫瓦。
Instead of building one powerful laser, Photon Bridge combines light from several weaker ones, each on a different wavelength, and sends them down a single fibre. Weaker lasers are less likely to fail in production, so more of them pass testing, the company says. Its design targets up to 40 milliwatts of power per wavelength.
该公司不运营自己的工厂。它与外部芯片制造商合作，并可从多家制造商采购激光器。
The company does not run its own factory. It works with outside chipmakers and can source lasers from several of them.
Photon Bridge将使用这笔资金开发产品、与客户进行测试并在埃因霍温招聘人员。该公司计划于2027年交付首批样品，并从2028年开始准备批量生产。
Photon Bridge will use the money to develop its product, test it with customers and hire in Eindhoven. It plans to ship its first samples in 2027 and prepare for mass production from 2028.
投资者正在向AI光链路注入资金。自3月以来，英伟达已向光子公司投资至少65亿美元，而CScale上个月筹集了1.45亿美元，以防止激光故障导致AI系统停滞。旧金山的Volantis本月也筹集了8800万美元，用于基于其自身激光器的光子内存。
Investors are pouring money into AI’s optical links. Nvidia has put at least $6.5B into photonics firms since March, and CScale raised $145M last month to stop laser failures from stalling AI systems. San Francisco’s Volantis also raised $88M this month for photonic memory built on its own lasers.