Photon Bridge raises €10M to mass-produce lasers for AI data centres
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Photon Bridge’s €10M to ship optical-link lasers by 2027–2028 is another data point that AI capex is pulling photonics into the critical path. Infra teams planning cluster builds for that window should assume higher bandwidth optical interconnects become table stakes, not an upgrade.
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