PsiQuantum has raised $1 billion in Series E funding to accelerate development of the world’s first million-qubit, fault-tolerant quantum computer. The Palo Alto–based company said the new capital will fund...
Scintil Photonics, based in Grenoble, France, has raised $58 million (€50M) in a Series B round to scale its integrated photonics technology for AI data centers. The funding, led by...
Altibox Carrier and Ciena have demonstrated the world’s first 1.6 Tbps single-carrier wavelength transmission on a live subsea system. The trial ran error-free across the NO-UK cable between Norway and...
Ayar Labs and Taiwan-based Alchip Technologies announced a strategic partnership to accelerate the deployment of co-packaged optics (CPO) for AI scale-up infrastructure. The collaboration combines Ayar Labs’ optical I/O technology...
Corning EVP and Chief Financial Officer Ed Schlesinger, speaking at Citi’s 2025 Global TMT Conference, said the company’s enterprise optical business—primarily focused on AI data centers—has more than doubled since...
Avicena has named Marco Chisari, former EVP of Samsung Foundries and Head of the Samsung Semiconductor Innovation Center, as its new Chief Executive Officer. Chisari replaces Avicena co-founder Bardia Pezeshki,...
POET Technologies has signed a development partnership with NTT Innovative Devices to co-design a 100G Bidirectional Optical Engine for next-generation mobile front-haul networks. The collaboration combines POET’s Optical Interposer platform...
FS introduced its independently developed DCS-W Series All-Optical Circuit Switch (OCS) to support AI, HPC, and machine learning clusters. The fully non-blocking optical matrix design eliminates OEO conversion, delivering protocol-...
GlobalFoundries (GF) spotlighted a broad set of technology innovations at its Technology Summit 2025 – North America in Santa Clara, with Dr. Ted Letavic, CTO of Advanced Technology Development, outlining...
Silicon photonics has reached a critical inflection point as AI and generative workloads drive unprecedented demand for bandwidth, power efficiency, and scalable interconnects. In this interview, Vikas Gupta, Senior Director...
GlobalFoundries elevated its silicon photonics platform to a standalone product line and doubled investment in the technology, said Kevin Soukup, Senior Vice President, during his keynote at the company’s GTS2025...
NTT has set a new benchmark in optical networking by demonstrating 160 Tbps transmission over more than 1,000 km of standard single-mode fiber. The breakthrough hinges on opening a previously...
DFA and Ciena have set a new benchmark for fibre transmission in South Africa, completing a world-first trial that achieved 1.6 Tbps over a single wavelength. Conducted between Isando and...
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