Musk approves acquisition of Mesh Optical, former SpaceX engineers' startup targeting Chinese dominance in optical transceivers

Mesh Optical said upon emerging from stealth that it was founded to disrupt the optical manufacturing market.

It claimed that systems produced in the U.S. are 'assembled like laboratory instruments – carefully, manually, expensively, and at low volumes.'

To meet the scale needed to support the millions of optical links in AI clusters, the optical engine powering Alpha C1 is manufactured with 'fast and repeatable flip chip die bonding,' the same tech used to package chips in modern processors.