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TORONTO, April 17, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- POET Technologies Inc. (“POET” or the “Company”) (TSX Venture: PTK; NASDAQ: POET), the designer and developer of the POET Optical Interposer™ and Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) for the data center, telecommunication and AI markets, today announced that it has augmented its investor outreach through two new engagements with external service providers. It also announced a change in the role of Vivek Rajgarhia, the Company’s President & General Manager.

TORONTO and SAN JOSE, Calif., March 27, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- POET Technologies Inc. (POET) (TSX Venture: PTK; NASDAQ: POET), the designer and developer of the POET Optical Interposer™ and Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) for data center, telecommunication and AI markets announced today a collaboration with MultiLane Inc., a leading provider of high-speed IO and data center interconnect test solutions, to develop next-generation, performance-optimized pluggable 800G, 1.6T and higher speed transceivers using POET’s newly designed transmit and receive optical engines. POET and MultiLane will focus on jointly developing pluggable transceivers that will reduce cost and improve power efficiency over existing solutions, and address the increasing need for more scalable hardware components for AI and cloud data center markets.

TORONTO and SAN JOSE, Calif., March 27, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- POET Technologies Inc. (POET) (TSX Venture: PTK; NASDAQ: POET), the designer and developer of the POET Optical Interposer™ and Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) for data center, telecommunication and AI markets announced today a collaboration with MultiLane Inc., a leading provider of high-speed IO and data center interconnect test solutions, to develop next-generation, performance-optimized pluggable 800G, 1.6T and higher speed transceivers using POET’s newly designed transmit and receive optical engines. POET and MultiLane will focus on jointly developing pluggable transceivers that will reduce cost and improve power efficiency over existing solutions, and address the increasing need for more scalable hardware components for AI and cloud data center markets.

TORONTO and SAN DIEGO, March 26, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- POET Technologies Inc. (“POET” or the “Company”) (TSX Venture: PTK; NASDAQ: POET), the designer and developer of the POET Optical Interposer™ and Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) for the data center, telecommunication and AI markets, today announced its first entry into the optical module market for artificial intelligence and cloud data center markets with an 800G pluggable transceiver. The Wavelight™ is an 800G 2xFR4 OSFP module that incorporates the Company’s POET Optical Interposer™ technology and related optical engine products.

TORONTO and SAN DIEGO, March 26, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- POET Technologies Inc. (“POET” or the “Company”) (TSX Venture: PTK; NASDAQ: POET), the designer and developer of the POET Optical Interposer™ and Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) for the data center, telecommunication and AI markets, today announced its first entry into the optical module market for artificial intelligence and cloud data center markets with an 800G pluggable transceiver. The Wavelight™ is an 800G 2xFR4 OSFP module that incorporates the Company’s POET Optical Interposer™ technology and related optical engine products.

TORONTO, March 22, 2024 (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, announced today, that it intends to amend the terms of 563,317 common share purchase warrants of the Corporation (the "Warrants") that were issued pursuant to a private placement that closed on December 2, 2022 (the "Private Placement"). Each Warrant is currently exercisable by the holder thereof to acquire one common share of the Corporation (each, a "Common Share") at an exercise price of C$4.95 (US$3.61) per Common Share until December 2, 2025. The purpose of the proposed amendments (collectively, the "Amendments") is to (i) reduce the exercise price of the Warrants from C$4.95 (US$3.61) to C$1.80 (US$1.33) per Common Share, and (ii) add an Acceleration Clause (as defined herein) to comply with the requirements of the TSX Venture Exchange (the "Exchange").

TORONTO, March 22, 2024 (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, announced today, that it intends to amend the terms of 563,317 common share purchase warrants of the Corporation (the "Warrants") that were issued pursuant to a private placement that closed on December 2, 2022 (the "Private Placement"). Each Warrant is currently exercisable by the holder thereof to acquire one common share of the Corporation (each, a "Common Share") at an exercise price of C$4.95 (US$3.61) per Common Share until December 2, 2025. The purpose of the proposed amendments (collectively, the "Amendments") is to (i) reduce the exercise price of the Warrants from C$4.95 (US$3.61) to C$1.80 (US$1.33) per Common Share, and (ii) add an Acceleration Clause (as defined herein) to comply with the requirements of the TSX Venture Exchange (the "Exchange").