{"city":"Suwon","name":"Optomind","slug":"optomind","facts":[{"date":"2024-09-23","type":"product_launch","value":"100000000000","source":"cbinsights.com citing the joint release"},{"date":"2024-09-23","type":"product_launch","value":"100 Gbps VCSEL work","source":"cbinsights.com citing the joint release"},{"date":"2024-03-22","type":"partnership","value":"100000000000","source":"trumpf.com"},{"date":"2024-03-22","type":"partnership","value":"TRUMPF","source":"trumpf.com"},{"date":"2023-10-02","type":"product_launch","value":"800000000000","source":"businesswire.com"},{"date":"2023-10-02","type":"product_launch","value":"800 Gbps OSFP active optical cables and SR8 optical transceivers","source":"businesswire.com"}],"peers":[],"stage":null,"state":"Gyeonggi","aliases":["Optomind Inc.","옵토마인드"],"country":"South Korea","domains":[{"why":"Optomind supplies high-speed optical interconnects, including 800 Gbps active optical cables and transceivers, and VCSEL technology.","list":null,"rank":null,"tier":"watchlist","layer":null,"total":51,"domain":"AI Core","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":6,"position":6,"progress":2,"firepower":4,"commercial":2,"deployment":6,"production":6,"technology":6},"edition":null,"segment":null}],"founded":null,"signals":[],"website":"optomindinc.com","category":"AI Infra · Networking & interconnect","categories":[{"name":"Optical & photonic interconnect","domain":"AI Core","parent":"AI Infra · Networking & interconnect"}],"last_round":null,"updated_at":"2026-09-22T22:30:11.943+00:00","facts_total":12,"positioning":"Optomind develops optical engines and the assembly platform to manufacture them at volume, selling active optical cables, transceivers and embedded optics into data center, AI and HPC networks. Its differentiators are a proprietary optical engine and OSA assembly platform, the O-EBO optical connector, the DuraLink transceiver line, and a DSP-free linear pluggable optics capability alongside conventional PAM4 DSP designs. It demonstrated 800 Gbps transceivers on TRUMPF 100 Gbps per channel VCSELs at ECOC 2024 and 800 Gbps OSFP AOCs and SR8 transceivers with MaxLinear 5nm Keystone PAM4 DSP at ECOC 2023. Optical sub-assembly is done in Suwon with downstream production in Hanoi, and it holds registered patents across the US, Korea, Japan, China and the EU. The reason for KEEP-WATCH rather than PROMOTE is that nothing dated was found for 2025 or 2026 in this pass, and the record runs 2023 to 2024. It occupies the same VCSEL-multimode and LPO niche as Lessengers, already in the registry, so the two rows should be read together. Revisit trigger: any dated 2026 product, funding round or named customer.","sub_category":"Optical & photonic interconnect","signals_total":0,"url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/optomind","title":"Optomind · ai core, Suwon, Gyeonggi, South Korea · scores, facts and signals · Frontier Tech Intelligence","description":"Optomind supplies high-speed optical interconnects, including 800 Gbps active optical cables and transceivers, and VCSEL technology. AI Core watchlist (score 51)","publisher":"Frontier Tech Intelligence (Future Frontiers, a trade name of Essential Cognition Inc.)","note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}