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Snapshot 2026-11-01- Startup SignalsRankedof 2,240
- InterconnectRankedof 40
- ChipsRankedof 150
- Data Center InterconnectRankedof 18
- Optical TransceiversRankedof 17
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Shanghai Lankun Microelectronics, founded in 2024, is a fabless silicon-photonics chip designer developing CMOS driver/TIA chips and monolithic micro-ring + WDM optical engines for co-packaged optics (CPO) in data centers and HPC; its first micro-ring optical I/O chip, Denali, was taped out on GlobalFoundries 45SPCLO.
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Company· 7
Investor· 3
Funding history
- 2026-10-28Angel+
Investors · 光合创投, 隆湫资本, China Fortune-Tech CapitalSource · news.pedaily.cn ↗
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