GlobalFoundries bets big on photonics to meet soaring Chinese data center demand
Foundry giant balancing eastern infra buildout with U.S. expansion
News - Photonics
The latest news on networking, cloud, and AI infrastructure
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Optics startup Quintessent secures $40M to revolutionize interconnects for AI
Ciena among backers of DWDM link player using gallium arsenide over supply-chain-constrained indium phosphide
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Could a tiny ‘rainbow’ chip be the key to faster 6G communications?
Scientists develop rice-sized chip for next-gen millimeter-wave connectivity
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AI demand to fuel 23x silicon photonic growth by 2030
Chinese laser maker eyes strategic gains from blooming optical interconnect market
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Photonics grabs White House security strategy priority over data infrastructure
Data centers out, quantum in as priorities shift toward tactical relevance
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Coherent Q4 financials see supply chain wins and scale-across opportunity
Nvidia-backed photonics vendor pulls in over $2 billion for the quarter
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Ex-Aruba CTO unveils optical startup armed with $900M to scale AI interconnectivity
Qualcomm-backed Lumilens debuts at a $5.5 billion valuation, with a mystery hyperscale customer already on board
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SDN pioneer joins $3.3B startup building optical interconnects for AI infrastructure
Thiel Foundation fellow-led startup entices Nicira, Barefoot Networks co-founder to lend networking expertise
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NTT invests in OptQC to accelerate optical quantum computing
Expanded partnership moves beyond research to commercialization, targeting a fault-tolerant one-million-qubit system by fiscal 2030
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AMD to join the optical interconnect party with 2027 Instinct GPUs
Lisa Su confirms upcoming MI500 series will feature both copper and optical connectivity a whole year before Nvidia
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Nvidia crowned AI networking’s top dog, but its throne isn’t quite safe
Gartner server CPU gong goes to AMD while Marvell outclasses on optical connectivity
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Microsoft ramps hiring for photonic AI interconnect push
Hyperscale wants photonics boffins to wire up its AI infrastructure with light
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Microsoft taps 3M’s expanded beam tech to streamline AI infrastructure connectivity
Partnership to reduce data center deployment times … and dust
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QuiX targets data center deployment with photonic quantum computing platform
Carina hardware platform has been delivered to Germany's DLR Quantum Computing Initiative
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Michigan State's diamond defect keeps quantum data alive 1,000x longer using light
Millisecond coherence achieved using all-optical control in a diamond spin-photon interface
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NTT evolves distributed data centers with photonics drive
DoCoMo arm tethers Japan's regional hubs through IOWN-APN
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Musk approved to acquire optical transceiver developer taking on Chinese dominance
Former SpaceX engineers' startup set to scale 1.6T AI interconnects with ‘fast and repeatable flip chip die bonding’
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Light-driven memory breakthrough targets AI power consumption
Researchers say laser-written magnetic memory could offer a path to faster, lower-power AI infrastructure
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AMD, Oriole Networks partner on nanosecond photonic networks for AI
UCL spinout claims its optical switching tech can cut AI network power usage by 81%
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Ayar Labs joins NVLink Fusion, bringing co-packaged optics to Nvidia's AI infrastructure
Optical interconnect startup to bring photonics to boost rack-scale connectivity
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Nvidia-backed Coherent posts record quarter as AI infrastructure buildout accelerates optics demand
Optics supplier posts $1.81 billion in Q3 revenue and is on track to quadruple its indium phosphide production capacity amid supply rumblings
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Nvidia continues optical spending spree with multiyear Corning deal
Corning to expand US production tenfold as optics demand ramps
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Marvell acquires silicon photonics device startup Polariton Technologies to advance optical scaling
Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed
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Nokia goes all-in on optics as Infinera bet sparks 20% revenue surge
Vendor ramping factory capacity to feed soaring optical demand
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Cisco alum joins Finchetto to drive optical switching for AI
Former Cisco VP and Saisei Networks founder backs British startup’s bid to challenge the switch market