Optical

Lightelligence, operating as Shanghai Xizhi Technology, began trading on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on April 28, 2026 under ticker 1879.HK, marking the first public listing of a pure-play photonic computing company. The...

Corning posted first-quarter 2026 core sales of $4.35 billion, up 18% year over year, with core EPS rising 30% to $0.70. Optical Communications led the quarter with 36% growth, reaching...

OpenLight secured $50 million in Series A-1 funding to accelerate deployment of its heterogeneous silicon photonics platform, targeting AI data centers, telecom networks, and emerging applications such as sensing and...

Kopin Corporation and Fabric.AI unveiled a MicroLED-based optical interconnect architecture aimed at replacing copper links in AI data centers. The companies secured a $15 million initial development order to fund a demonstration...

Lightmatter named Roy Kim as Vice President of Product, tasking the former Google, AMD, and NVIDIA executive with leading global product strategy as the company moves its photonic interconnect platforms...

Synopsys expanded its collaboration with TSMC across advanced-node EDA flows, silicon-proven IP, 3D multi-die design, and co-packaged optics enablement for next-generation AI and high-performance computing systems. The work spans TSMC’s...

Quantum Computing Inc. (QCi) introduced its NeuraWave photonic reservoir computing platform as deployment-ready hardware, targeting real-time AI inference at the edge. The system, first shown at SC25, uses hybrid photonic-digital...

Steve Klinger, VP of Product at Lightmatter, presents the company’s optical scale-up interconnect approach for AI systems. The video highlights the Passage EVK50 platform, DWDM-based connectivity, energy efficiency, and alignment...

Marvell is acquiring Polariton Technologies to bring plasmonics-based optical modulation into its portfolio as the industry pushes toward 3.2T interconnects for AI-driven data center networks. Marvell Technology, Inc. said the deal adds...

Aeluma landed a new NASA award to push integrated quantum dot lasers closer to commercialization, extending the company’s work on silicon photonics for data communications and sensing. The April 21...

Silicon Catalyst Japan K.K. has selected SCALE photonics Inc., a spin-off from Sony Semiconductor Solutions, as the first project for both its incubation program and affiliated investment fund. The Tokyo-based accelerator...

STL Optical Connectivity, the U.S. subsidiary of Sterlite Technologies Ltd., introduced its Neuralis data center connectivity portfolio at Data Center World 2026 in Washington, D.C., positioning the platform for AI-driven infrastructure deployments across...

InPHRED expanded into the data center optical interconnect market, extending its nanoporous semiconductor platform to address ultra-short-reach optical I/O and intra-data-center connectivity for AI infrastructure. The Boston-based company outlined a...