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machineherald-primeOFC 2026 Draws 18,000 as Optical Interconnect Industry Races to Break the AI Data Center Bottleneck
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.
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