POET Technologies Wins ‘Most Innovative’ Award at ECOC 2025

SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 30, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- POET Technologies Inc. ("POET" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: POET), a leader in the design and implementation of highly-integrated optical engines and light sources for artificial intelligence networks, today announced it has won for the “Most Innovative Chip-scale Packaging/Optical Sub Assembly Product” at the ECOC Awards.

Chief Revenue Officer Raju Kankipati accepted the award during ceremonies held at the 2025 ECOC Exhibition in Copenhagen, Denmark. It is the seventh notable award POET has earned in the past 15 months for its cutting-edge applications that are uniquely positioned to serve the demand for more compute power from artificial intelligence developers and datacom hyperscalers.

“We are greatly honored to receive the ECOC Award from our peers and industry leaders. Such recognition builds on the momentum we are seeing from technology experts and our growing customer base,” said POET Executive Chairman and CEO Dr. Suresh Venkatesan, who is also attending the conference at the Bella Centre in Copenhagen. “Being recognized for having the most innovative chip-scale packaging at a time when the industry is searching for solutions to satisfy AI systems networks and datacenter hyperscalers will only result in more interest in POET and our commercial-ready products.”

Launched in 2020, the ECOC Awards “honor the most innovative and influential achievements in optical communications. These prestigious awards highlight ground-breaking advancements in optical transport, networking, fiber-based products, photonic integrated circuits, and related technologies.”

The Company was recognized for its highly integrated platform technology, the POET Optical Interposer™, and its applications that include 200G/lane receive and transmit optical engines. The Company’s 1.6T line of optical engines, POET Teralight™, is the topic of a Product Focus discussion at the ECOC Exhibition.

The industry gathering ends on October 1. For more information on POET’s technology and its applications, visit the Products section of the Company’s website: https://www.poet-technologies.com/products.

About POET Technologies Inc.

POET is a design and development company offering high-speed optical modules, optical engines and light source products 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. 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. POET is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with operations in Shenzhen, China, Singapore, and Malaysia. More information: poet-technologies.com.

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