-  Vuzix Causeway evaluation units available to qualified partners exploring optical interconnects for AI data centers

ROCHESTER, N.Y., Oct. 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Vuzix® Corporation (NASDAQ: VUZI), a supplier of AI-powered smart glasses, waveguides and advanced optical components, today announced that it is participating in the 2026 OCP Global Summit, October 12–15 in San Jose, California, and will participate in the PECC Summit, October 20–21 in Sunnyvale, California. Vuzix will host meetings to review its Vuzix Causeway™ waveguide optical interconnect evaluation platform and discuss evaluation opportunities with AI data center, semiconductor, photonics and advanced packaging companies.

Vuzix Causeway applies proprietary waveguide technology to route thousands of parallel optical pathways through a compact substrate, offering a new approach to high-density optical connectivity for co-packaged optics (CPO), near-package optics (NPO) and AI computing. The current evaluation platform has demonstrated 19,200 parallel optical pathways across an approximately 30 mm optical path. Future communications implementations are projected to support multi-terabit aggregate bandwidth, subject to source, detector and system integration performance. Vuzix Causeway waveguide structures can be tailored to source wavelength and illumination approach for custom architectures using microLED or VCSEL sources.

Vuzix is making Vuzix Causeway evaluation units available to qualified industry partners to characterize optical performance and assess integration requirements. Engineers can evaluate optical loss, crosstalk, channel density, and coupling and alignment. These evaluations are intended to inform potential custom optical designs and future manufacturing opportunities, drawing on Vuzix's existing waveguide design and U.S.-based production capabilities.

"AI infrastructure needs to move more data with greater efficiency and density. Vuzix Causeway gives industry partners a practical platform to evaluate waveguide-based optical routing for those requirements," said Paul Travers, President and Chief Executive Officer of Vuzix. "We bring nearly two decades of waveguide development, custom optical design and high-precision nanoimprint replication to this opportunity. Our goal is to help partners move from evaluation toward custom optical interconnect designs that can be manufactured at our Rochester, New York facility."

Interested parties attending OCP who would like to review the Vuzix Causeway platform or discuss potential evaluation opportunities with Vuzix may contact Warren Russell at warren_russell@vuzix.com to arrange a meeting on Wednesday, October 14 or Thursday, October 15.

Following OCP, Vuzix will participate in the PECC Summit – Optica+APC Photonic-Enabled Cloud Computing Summit, October 20–21 at the HPE Aspiration Dome in Sunnyvale, California. The event brings together leaders from across the photonics supply chain to address optics deployment in AI and cloud infrastructure, including optical interconnects, packaging, manufacturing and scale-up challenges. Both events provide opportunities for Vuzix to discuss partner evaluation needs and potential integration paths for Vuzix Causeway.

About Vuzix Corporation

Vuzix is a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of AI-enabled Smart Glasses for enterprises as well as waveguides and advanced optical components for OEM and ODMs for their products in the defense, security, medical and AI glasses markets along with optical interconnect components for AI computing applications. Founded in 1997, Vuzix holds more than 500 patents and patents pending, along with numerous IP licenses covering optics, head-mounted displays and augmented reality wearables, and has received more than 20 Consumer Electronics Show awards for innovation. The Company is publicly traded on Nasdaq under the symbol VUZI and maintains operations in Rochester, New York, and Japan. For more information, visit the Vuzix website, X and Facebook pages.

Forward-Looking Statements Disclaimer

Certain statements contained in this news release are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and applicable Canadian securities laws. Forward-looking statements contained in this release include, among others, statements regarding the potential applicability of the Company's waveguide design and manufacturing capabilities to optical interconnect applications; the potential performance, bandwidth or scalability of waveguide-based optical interconnect architectures; the anticipated timing and value of partner feedback; and the Company's expectations regarding evaluation programs. They are generally identified by words such as "believes," "may," "expects," "anticipates," "should" and similar expressions. Readers should not place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements, which are based upon the Company's beliefs and assumptions as of the date of this release. The Company's actual results could differ materially due to risk factors and other items described in more detail in the "Risk Factors" section of the Company's Annual Reports and MD&A filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and applicable Canadian securities regulators (copies of which may be obtained at www.sedar.com or www.sec.gov). Subsequent events and developments may cause these forward-looking statements to change. The Company specifically disclaims any obligation or intention to update or revise these forward-looking statements as a result of changed events or circumstances that occur after the date of this release, except as required by applicable law.

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