Xscape Photonics Reveals EagleX Laser Evaluation Kit for ChromX Platform

Industry-First, Multi-Color Laser Based on Programmable CombX Technology for Photonics in AI Data Centers to be Showcased at DAC 2025 

News Highlights:

• EagleX Laser Evaluation Kit is the first public availability of ChromX, Xscape Photonics’ multi-color photonics platform for AI data center fabrics.
• The kit provides a sandbox for customers to test ChromX alongside their silicon development process, facilitating early adoption and integration of limitation-shattering photonics technology for the future of AI data centers.
• EagleX, which will be showcased in the Chiplet Pavilion exhibition at DAC 2025, June 22-25, 2025 in San Francisco, is capable of emitting up to 16 colors and is programmable for customers to adapt to their own solutions’ capacity, allowing them to conduct data collection at their ideal level to customize photonics integration.

Xscape Photonics, a Silicon Valley startup using silicon photonics to support the next generation of AI data centers, today announced sampling availability of the EagleX Laser Evaluation Kit for its ChromX platform. The system, based on Xscape Photonics’ proprietary multi-color laser source fabricated on wafer-scale Silicon Photonics (SiPho) platform, is a plug-and-play kit for the industry’s first multi-color laser that can emit up to 16 colors at high optical output power. The EagleX Laser Evaluation Kit will be showcased in the Chiplet Pavilion exhibition at DAC 2025, June 22-25, 2025 in San Francisco.

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The EagleX Laser Evaluation Kit from Xscape Photonics.

As predicted in a report by McKinsey, the global demand for data center capacity could nearly triple by 2030, with AI workloads accounting for roughly 70% of that demand. With such rapid growth within the AI ecosystem, scalability factors – such as bandwidth requirements and enormous levels of energy consumption – are running up against hard constraints posed by the data center infrastructure that currently supports AI models. In addition, data centers have historically been limited to transmitting data streams over four colors on a single fiber. As bandwidth demand has grown, this traditional approach has become unsustainable and now requires a scalable laser and photonics platform to address the ever-growing increase in volume demand for lasers in these networks.

Xscape Photonics addresses these challenges by providing a multi-color platform that supports the generation of 8 and 16 colors compliant with the CW-WDM MSA within the O-band spectrum range. The proprietary SiPho-based, multi-color source device within the kit can generate a set of these compliant wavelengths from a single off-the-shelf DFB pump laser in a single output fiber. This unique technology enables hyperscale customers to reimagine the data center fabric to achieve volume, cost and density targets without being restricted by bandwidth bottlenecks.

“Today’s AI data centers are simply not efficient enough. No matter how powerful the underlying GPU’s computing capability is, the bottlenecks created by existing data center networking infrastructure only allow users to see a fraction of it – it’s like driving a Ferrari in a traffic jam,” said Vivek Raghunathan, Co-Founder and CEO of Xscape Photonics. “This platform will provide a new vector of bandwidth scaling, up to 16x, to power the roadmap of AI hardware based on optics over the next decade.”

The EagleX Laser Evaluation Kit represents the first public availability of the ChromX platform since Xscape Photonics secured a $44 million Series A funding round in October 2024 to accelerate its development. ChromX is optimized to help customers develop novel, low-power fabric connectivity solutions for AI clusters, with key applications including AI interconnect, optical computing interconnect, Co-Packaged Optics (CPO) and Near Packaged Optics (NPO). The EagleX kit is a plug-and-play “sandbox” unit designed for customer operation and will allow users to test ChromX as a part of their silicon development process and enable data-driven architecture decisions for their platforms.

Xscape Photonics was founded in 2022 by a team of distinguished SiPho pioneers from Columbia University. The PhDs and engineers that comprise the team come from experience across the semiconductor space, at such organizations as Broadcom, Cerebras, InPhi, Intel, Juniper, Lumentum, Marvell and Neophotonics.

Xscape Photonics will conduct live demos of the EagleX Laser Evaluation Kit in the Chiplet Pavilion exhibition at DAC 2025 (Booth #2308D), June 22-25, 2025 in San Francisco. For more information, and to request a sample of the EagleX Laser Evaluation Kit, contact sales@xscapephotonics.com.

About Xscape Photonics

Xscape Photonics develops photonic platform solutions designed for ultra-high bandwidth connections inside data centers to power Gen AI systems. The company's proprietary platform targets scaling of AI computing performance in an environmentally sustainable manner and is optimized for power, cost, scale and reliability. To learn more, follow us on LinkedIn or visit xscapephotonics.com.

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