TORONTO, May 22, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- POET Technologies Inc.("POET" or the "Corporation") (TSXV: PTK; NASDAQ: POET), the designer and developer of the POET Optical Interposer™, Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) and light sources for the data center, tele-communication and artificial intelligence markets, is pleased to announce that, further to its news release dated May 20, 2025, it has completed a non-brokered private placement with a single strategic investor pursuant to which the Corporation issued 6,000,000 common shares of the Corporation (the "Common Shares") and one common share purchase warrant of the Corporation (the "Warrant") exercisable until May 22, 2030, to acquire up to 6,000,000 Common Shares (the "Warrant Shares") at an exercise price of C$8.32 per Warrant Share, for aggregate gross proceeds of US$30,000,000 (the "Offering").
In addition to providing high-speed (800G, 1.6T and above) optical engines and optical modules for AI clusters and hyperscale data centers, POET has designed and produced novel light source products for chip-to-chip data communication within and between AI servers, the next frontier for solving bandwidth and latency problems in AI systems. POET's Optical Interposer platform also solves device integration challenges across a broad range of communication, computing and sensing applications. POET is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with operations in Singapore, Penang, Malaysia and Shenzhen, China. More information about POET is available on our website at Media Relations Contact:Adrian Brijbassiadrian.brijbassi@poet-technologies.comCompany Contact:Thomas R.
POET is a design and development company offering high-speed optical engines, light source products and custom optical modules to the artificial intelligence systems market and to hyperscale data centers. POET's photonic integration solutions are based on the POET Optical Interposer™, a novel, patented platform that allows the seamless integration of electronic and photonic devices into a single chip using advanced wafer-level semiconductor manufacturing techniques.
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