09:16 AM EDT, 04/02/2025 (MT Newswires) -- POET Technologies ( POET ) , which designs and implements optical engines and light sources for artificial intelligence networks, on Wednesday said it partnered with a South Korean company to offer a differentiated 800G DR8 transceiver for AI and hyperscale data center applications.

The transceiver will include POET's transmit and receive optical engines and the direct optical wiring technology of South Korea's Lessengers. POET will supply the highly integrated POET Infinity transmit and receive optical engines configured in an 800G DR8 architecture, which includes electronic and photonic components.

POET added that Lessengers expects to have transceiver samples ready for its customers to review in the second half of the year.

U.S.-listed shares of the company were last seen unchanged at $3.670 in pre-market trading.