On July 16, POET Technologies fell 8.04% in regular trading, trading at $7.595/share, with turnover of $39.68 million. The stock opened at $8.97 and hit an intraday low of $8.14 before extending losses further, reflecting broad-based selling across the optical communications space.

The optical communications sector saw collective weakness during the session, with Corning down over 7%, Applied Optoelectronics and Coherent each falling over 4%, Astera Labs declining over 4%, and Lumentum, Credo, and Ciena each losing over 3%. The broader semiconductor sector also traded lower, with Micron Technology down 4.5%, Intel down 3.4%, Advanced Micro Devices down 3.44%, and NVIDIA down 2.23%.

POET Technologies is a design and development company providing photonic integration packaging solutions based on its proprietary POET Optical Interposer platform, which enables seamless integration of electronic and photonic devices onto a single chip for AI infrastructure applications including data center transceiver optical engines. The company recently raised $400 million through a registered direct offering and is currently subject to a securities fraud class action lawsuit related to PFIC tax disclosure issues.

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