Enablence Announces Q1FY27 Order for Optical Communications Products to Support High-Speed AI Hyperscalers
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Enablence (OTC: ENAFF) announced a $5.3 million Q1FY27 order for its FR8 wavelength management chips supporting 800G and 1.6T optical transceivers for AI hyperscalers and HPC in North America.
The order, its largest to date, begins shipping in Q4FY26 using Harmonic™ PLC technology.
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- $5.3M Q1FY27 FR8 order for AI and HPC customers
- Largest order to date, expanding presence in next-generation AI data centers
- Order supports 800G and 1.6T optical transceivers for AI hyperscalers in North America
- Shipments scheduled to start in Q4FY26, extending production pipeline
- Harmonic™ PLC technology offers lower signal loss and crosstalk for high-speed data
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Fremont, California--(Newsfile Corp. - June 3, 2026) - Enablence Technologies Inc. (TSXV: ENA), a leading provider of Planar lightwave optical chips (PLCs) used in datacom, telecom, automotive and artificial intelligence applications announced today a Q1FY27 customer order for its FR8 wavelength management products to support next-generation 800G and 1.6T optical transceivers for high-growth AI hyperscalers and other high performance computing (HPC) applications in North America. The Q1FY27 order is valued at
Enablence's next-generation wavelength management products, also known as FR8 products, are a family of optical wavelength management semiconductor chips, that enables the transmission of high bandwidth data signals among 800G and 1.6T optical transceivers. These products use Enablence's Harmonic™ PLC based technology which provides lower signal loss and significantly lower crosstalk, resulting in improved power efficiency and error free data transfer rates, ensuring faster and more reliable high speed data communication. This is important for clustering GPUs and AI model training.
Industry Background
Growth among AI hyper-scalers in North America is accelerating the need for high-performance AI data centers. The success of these data centers depends on building powerful super nodes through scale-up architectures, then extending them across clusters through scale-out deployment within the datacenter. Enablence's optical semiconductor chips based on its Harmonic™ PLC technology, enables this approach by providing an efficient high-speed interconnect layer that enables compute resources to operate efficiently at scale.
"This is our largest order to date. It is a significant growth opportunity for our company, expanding our value and footprint within next-generation AI data centers, while growing our North American installed base," noted Todd Haugen, CEO, Enablence Technologies.
"AI performance is no longer defined by compute alone; it is increasingly defined by how efficiently data can move. Our chips power the optical transceivers which are the critical bridge between scale-up compute density and scale-out cluster performance," noted Haugen.
Technology Background
Optical transceivers carry data between compute functions such as GPUs or servers inside the modern AI datacenter. They perform two-way signal conversion-translating electrical data from the processor into pulses of light for fiber-optic transport and converting incoming light signals back into electrical data the GPU can understand. The growth in large-scale model training and AI agent deployment has made scaling hardware and networking infrastructure a focus.
About Enablence
Enablence Technologies Inc. is a publicly traded company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange (TSXV: ENA). Enablence designs, manufactures, and sells advanced optical components, primarily in the form of PLCs and LiDAR technologies on silicon-based chips. Enablence optical products support a broad range of customers in the datacom, telecom, automotive and artificial intelligence industries. Enablence operates a wafer lab in Fremont, California with a design center in Canada and sales office in China, supported by sales and marketing operations worldwide. For more information, visit https://www.enablence.com/.
For more information contact:
Brian Siegel, CFO Enablence Technologies Inc.
brian.siegel@enablence.com
Todd Haugen, CEO Enablence Technologies Inc.
todd.haugen@enablence.com
+1 (510) 226-8900
Ali Mahdavi
Capital Markets & Investor Relations
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Alison Parnell, Media and Analysts
Hill and Kincaid Marketing & PR
408-590-0137
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