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Black Semiconductor develops integrated graphene photonics technology that connects electronic chips using optical signals instead of traditional copper connections. The company's technology aims to enable faster, cooler, and more energy-efficient data transfer for data centers and compute architectures.
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blacksemiconductor at a glance
blacksemiconductor is a semiconductors company headquartered in Germany. Xcout tracks 5 named people at blacksemiconductor, including Ogi Brkic (CPO). Xcout recorded 58 job postings from blacksemiconductor in the last 90 days, naming tools such as SAP, Anthropic, Claude Code.
blacksemiconductor leadership
- Ogi BrkicCPO
- Cedric HuyghebaertСТО
- Jay NunezCCO
- Dr. Daniel SchallCo-founder & CEO
- Sebastian SchallCo-founder & CFO
Hiring at blacksemiconductor
Xcout recorded 58 job postings from blacksemiconductor in the last 90 days, from a hiring record Xcout has kept since July 2026.
Tools named in blacksemiconductor's job postings
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Hiring vs the trend
Based on 26 job postings in the last 8 weeks (24 Aug – 18 Oct 2026), compared with 266 startup technology companies.
This describes a hiring pattern — how often blacksemiconductor’s job postings ask for AI skills, and how that changed against the previous 8 weeks, ranked among its peers. It says nothing about the company’s products or performance.
Signed-in members see the AI-skill share and its change with peer percentiles, role mix, posting momentum and advertised US pay against the market.
Tech stack
blacksemiconductor competitors
A few of blacksemiconductor's closest competitors — see the full list of competitors and alternatives →
Axalume is a San Diego-based technology company founded in 2017 that integrates electronics and photonics to improve performance and reduce costs for data centers and networking infrastructure.
DustPhotonics is a semiconductor company that develops silicon-photonics optical engines and related components for high-speed data communications. Its products are designed for data-center, cloud, AI, and networking applications and serve equipment manufacturers and large-scale data-center operators.
Smart Photonics operates as a pure-play foundry for integrated photonics, manufacturing Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) that use light to create energy-efficient and fast microchips. The company provides design kits, multi-project wafer services, and manufacturing solutions for clients in sectors such as data and telecommunication, medical applications, and sensing technologies like Lidar.
Metalenz develops metasurface optics to enable the next generation of optical sensing. The company manufactures flat lenses directly in semiconductor foundries to provide precise control and high-performance optical data from a single compact element.
iPronics is a semiconductor manufacturing company headquartered in Valencia, Spain, specializing in programmable photonics and optical networking solutions. The firm develops cutting-edge optical switching architectures, such as the iPronics ONE rack-ready optical switch designed to accelerate AI clusters.
Ayar Labs, Inc. is headquartered at 695 River Oaks Parkway in San Jose, California. The company engineers artificial intelligence infrastructure using co-packaged optics, developing optical I/O solutions such as TeraPHY and SuperNova.
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