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4 articles covering "Silicon Photonics"
Nvidia takes a $2 billion stake in Marvell Technology, integrating one of the semiconductor industry's top custom ASIC designers into its NVLink Fusion interconnect platform.
OFC 2026 drew 18,000 attendees as ST entered high-volume silicon photonics production, Lumentum showed VCSEL co-packaged optics, Coherent demoed a 6.4T CPO engine, and startups began sampling 3.2T photonic chips.
A prototype chip encodes neural network weights directly into nanoscale photonic structures, classifying biomedical images with up to 99 percent accuracy on a picosecond timescale while generating virtually no resistive heat.
NVIDIA pours $2 billion each into photonics makers Lumentum and Coherent, signaling that optical interconnects are becoming as critical to AI scaling as GPUs.