POET Technologies Inc. Common Shares

POET Technologies (NASDAQ: POET; TSXV: PTK) is a photonic integrated circuit and optical engine design company headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with primary R&D operations in Singapore. Founded in 1972 as Opel Technologies Inc. and renamed POET Technologies in June 2013 — POET being an acronym for Planar Opto-Electronic Technology — the company develops the POET Optical Interposer, a wafer-level semiconductor platform that integrates electronic and photonic components into a single multi-chip module using conventional semiconductor manufacturing. The platform enables automated pick-and-place assembly of optical engines at 800G, 1.6T, and 3.2T data rates for AI data center and telecommunications applications. POET operates a fab-lite model: interposer wafers are fabricated by SilTerra in Malaysia and optical engine assembly occurs at contract manufacturers in Penang, with completed engines supplied to transceiver manufacturers including Foxconn (FIT), Luxshare, and LITEON. Co-development partnerships include Lumilens (initial $50M order, framework to $500M+), LITEON Technology, Semtech, Lessengers, Sivers Semiconductors, and Quantum Computing Inc. As of early 2026 the company had 53 full-time employees and approximately $430 million in cash following multiple institutional equity raises.