# Ligent seeks ~$727M in Hong Kong IPO for AI network optical modules

> Ligent Technologies, a San Jose based maker of optical modules with Chinese roots, is seeking roughly 727 million dollars in a Hong Kong initial public offering. The components it builds are the unglamorous but essential plumbing of AI computing, the high-speed optical links that shuttle data between the thousands of chips packed into modern AI clusters. The listing follows a red-hot run for the sector. Rival Zhongji Innolight raised about 6.8 billion dollars in its own debut in July, and investor appetite for AI infrastructure suppliers has stayed strong even as attention usually fixes on the model makers. Ligent is betting that demand for networking hardware will keep rising as data centers scale. It is a useful reminder that the AI boom is not only about labs and chatbots. A whole layer of specialized hardware companies, many of them tied to Asian manufacturing and now tapping Hong Kong's markets, is raising serious money to supply the parts that make large-scale AI possible.

_Section: [AI Funding Tracker](https://www.wortins.com/funding) · Source: Bloomberg / TechMeme · Published Monday, September 14, 2026_

## Wortins' read

Ligent Technologies, a San Jose based maker of optical modules with Chinese roots, is seeking roughly 727 million dollars in a Hong Kong initial public offering. The components it builds are the unglamorous but essential plumbing of AI computing, the high-speed optical links that shuttle data between the thousands of chips packed into modern AI clusters. The listing follows a red-hot run for the sector. Rival Zhongji Innolight raised about 6.8 billion dollars in its own debut in July, and investor appetite for AI infrastructure suppliers has stayed strong even as attention usually fixes on the model makers. Ligent is betting that demand for networking hardware will keep rising as data centers scale. It is a useful reminder that the AI boom is not only about labs and chatbots. A whole layer of specialized hardware companies, many of them tied to Asian manufacturing and now tapping Hong Kong's markets, is raising serious money to supply the parts that make large-scale AI possible.

## Source

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