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· today in ai · 2026-09-02
Nvidia backs a $125M photonic-switch round
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Spain's iPronics raised a $125M Series B, Nvidia among the backers, to shrink its light-based data center switches so more fit per rack.
Valencia-based iPronics raised a $125 million Series B, co-led by Maverick Silicon and Light Street Capital with Nvidia among the new backers, to scale its light-based optical switches for AI data centers. The capital mainly funds shrinking the hardware roughly 20x so more switches fit per rack, letting operators build larger GPU clusters without wasting GPU capacity on network bottlenecks.
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- 01iPronics Raises $125 Million to Scale Programmable Optical Networking for AI Data Centersglobenewswire.com · primary press release
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