POET Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: POET) experienced a pre-market soar of 6.27% as investors reacted to a significant commercial announcement and first-quarter financial results that highlighted the company's strategic positioning in the AI infrastructure market.

The surge follows POET's announcement of a strategic supply agreement with Lumilens that establishes a joint development partnership focused on wafer-level photonic integration for frontier AI infrastructure. As part of the agreement, Lumilens placed an initial purchase order valued at $50 million for the manufacturing of Electrical-Optical Interposer-based optical engines. The partnership framework represents the first phase of a broader supplier relationship that could scale to over $500 million in cumulative purchases from POET over five years.

This commercial milestone validates POET's Optical Interposer platform and comes alongside the company's reported first-quarter revenue growth and other strategic partnerships with industry leaders LITEON Technology and Lessengers. The company also announced plans to redomicile its headquarters to the United States, which would eliminate potential Passive Foreign Investment Company classification risks for investors.