Optical

Tower Semiconductor said it is working with NVIDIA to support 1.6T data center optical modules aimed at next-generation AI infrastructure, using its silicon photonics (SiPho) manufacturing platform. The collaboration focuses...

Lam Research and CEA-Leti signed a new multi-year research agreement aimed at accelerating the development of next-generation specialty semiconductor devices with improved energy efficiency. The collaboration targets emerging applications spanning...

Credo introduced the Blue Heron 224G AI scale-up retimer, positioning it as the industry’s first multiprotocol 224G retimer designed to support UALink, Ethernet for Scale-Up Networking (ESUN), and Ethernet. The...

Telekom Srbija Group and its subsidiary Mtel deployed new optical transport infrastructure using Ciena technology to strengthen connectivity between Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. The network upgrade targets higher-capacity, lower-latency transport to support regional traffic growth, 5G...

Corning posted record fourth-quarter and full-year 2025 results, driven by strong growth in Optical Communications and improved operating leverage across the business. Core sales reached $4.41 billion in Q4, up...

Lightmatter and Synopsys announced a collaboration to integrate Synopsys’ 224G SerDes and UCIe IP, qualified for a 3nm process, into Lightmatter’s Passage 3D co-packaged optics (CPO) platform. The companies are targeting hyperscale AI...

Lightmatter announced a technical collaboration with Cadence to develop co-packaged optics (CPO) solutions that combine Cadence’s silicon-proven high-speed SerDes and UCIe IP with Lightmatter’s Passage optical engine. The effort targets hyperscale AI and...

Lightmatter and Global Unichip Corp. (GUC) announced a strategic partnership to bring commercial Passage 3D co-packaged optics (CPO) solutions to market for hyperscale AI and high-performance computing environments. The collaboration combines Lightmatter’s silicon...

OIF will stage a large-scale, live multi-vendor interoperability demonstration at OFC 2026, underscoring how interoperable optical and electrical interfaces translate into deployable infrastructure for AI-era data center networks. The showcase runs March...

Lightmatter introduced the Guide light engine, built on its new Very Large Scale Photonics (VLSP) laser architecture, targeting the next phase of co-packaged optics (CPO) and near-package optics (NPO) for AI...

Sterlite Technologies Ltd (STL) completed a successful multi-core fibre (MCF) field trial with Colt Technology Services across Colt’s London metro optical network, demonstrating the viability of MCF as a high-capacity backbone for next-generation...

Peter Smyth, CEO of X-Celeprint, discusses how microtransfer printing technology addresses critical challenges in heterogeneous integration for silicon photonics and other advanced applications. Smyth explains the importance of precision placement...

Quantifi Photonics unveiled the ELSFP 1000 Series, the first External Laser Small Form-Factor Pluggable (ELSFP) solution implemented in a PXI form factor, targeting scalable test environments for co-packaged optics (CPO), photonic...