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GlobalFoundries and Marvell are scaling up silicon photonics efforts as data centers outgrow copper wiring (techspot.com)

2026-09-18 | by Alfonso Maruccia | tags: globalfoundries, marvell technology, silicon photonics

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Heterogeneous photonic integration of single-crystalline nanomembranes (feeds.nature.com)

2026-09-16 | by Meng | tags: photonic integration, nanomembranes, silicon photonics

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Tiny nanolaser could cut computer energy use in half (sciencedaily.com)

2026-09-11 | get active optical cable fiber data cable → | tags: nanolaser, dtu, science advances

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GoPro to be acquired for $285M, will remain a public company (techcrunch.com)

2026-09-01 | by Sean O'Kane | get GoPro HERO13 Black → | tags: gopro, starman optical, action camera

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White House cuts data centers, batteries, and AR from the US critical technology list — post-quantum cryptography, integrated photonics, high entropy alloys among new additions (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-19 | by Luke James | tags: critical infrastructure, post-quantum cryptography, integrated photonics

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λλ: A Programming Language for Silicon Photonics (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-19 | tags: silicon photonics, programming language, tech companies

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AI data center optical interconnect market to hit $144 billion by 2030, an over ten-fold increase from 2024 figures, according to new projections — silicon photonics expected to account for nearly two-thirds of revenue, driven by co-packaged optics (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-17 | by Etiido Uko | tags: silicon photonics, yuanjie semiconductors, lightcounting

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Near-packaged optics (NPO) gains ground as the industry hedges against CPO's growing pains — analysts say volume for NPO silicon photonics products will extend until the end of the decade (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-13 | by Luke James | tags: npo, silicon photonics, broadcom

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How optical interconnects and silicon photonics emerged as AI's next hot commodity — looming US-China summit puts photonics into the crosshairs (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-12 | by Etiido Uko | tags: optical interconnects, silicon photonics, nvidia

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Lumentum CEO warns of impending bottleneck on critical material used for silicon photonics — fab and material shortfall already lags 30% below customer needs as co-packaged optics demand skyrockets (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Luke James | tags: lumentum, indium phosphide, silicon photonics

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MIT’s new lidar chip could give self-driving cars a wider view (sciencedaily.com)

2026-07-22 | tags: lidar, silicon-photonics, autonomous vehicles

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Insulator-free topological photonic multi-lane highways (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-22 | by Cui | tags: topological photonics, gyromagnetic honeycomb, photonic crystals

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Tower Semiconductor revives shuttered Panasonic-era fab in $3 billion Japan photonics expansion — METI-backed plan targets $3.6 billion revenue by 2028 (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-16 | by Luke James | tags: tower semiconductor, panasonic, japan photonics

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Taiwan's second-largest chipmaker starts mass production in Singapore; Citi sees improving outlook (cnbc.com)

2026-07-14 | by Jenny Lee | tags: billion, photonics, second

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Optical metasurfaces for general vision processing on the edge (feeds.nature.com)

2026-06-17 | by Peng | get Meta Optical Lens Kit → | tags: metasurfaces, photonics, neural network

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Nvidia is investing billions into this emerging technology that could change the AI industry (cnbc.com)

2026-05-29 | by Kai Nicol-Schwarz | get Nvidia Jetson Nano Developer Kit → | tags: nvidia, photonics, coherent

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The AI economy is rewriting the American Dream — and blue-collar workers are poised to win (cnbc.com)

2026-05-19 | by Gabrielle Fonrouge | get AI Workforce Development Kit → | tags: att&t, blue-collar workers, photonics

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Tool mapping 90 companies in the photonics and CPO supply chain (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-17 | by Leonardo Boquillón | get Photonics Industry Map Poster → | tags: co-packaged optics, silicon photonics, inp laser

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NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-18 | get Laser Pointer Kit → | tags: nist, photonics, lasers

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Any Color You Like: NIST Scientists Create 'Any Wavelength' Lasers (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-18 | get Tunable Laser Diode → | tags: nist, photonics, lasers

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Quantum photonics roadmap — how Xanadu and PsiQuantum are looking to transfer qubits through beams of light (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-16 | by Francisco Pires | get Quantum Photonics Starter Kit → | tags: quantum photonics, xanadu quantum technologies, psiquantum

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Monolithic 3D integration of tantalum pentoxide nonlinear photonics (feeds.nature.com)

2026-04-15 | by Brodnik | get Tantalum Pentoxide Optical Coating → | tags: tantalum pentoxide, integrated photonics, lithium niobate

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MZI-based transistorlessness might finally be here (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-14 | get Photonic Integrated Circuit Kit → | tags: mzi interferometers, photonic computing, silicon photonics

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Why, After All These Years, MZI-Based Transistorlessness Might Finally Be Here (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-14 | get MZI-Based Photonic Switch → | tags: mzi interferometers, photonic computing, silicon photonics

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Marvell stock pops 13% as Nvidia takes $2 billion stake, continuing run of similar bets (cnbc.com)

2026-03-31 | by Samantha Subin | get Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 → | tags: marvell, nvidia, silicon photonics

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Marvell stock pops 7% as Nvidia takes $2 billion stake, continuing run of similar bets (cnbc.com)

2026-03-31 | by Samantha Subin | get Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 → | tags: marvell technology, nvidia, semiconductor

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Marvell stock pops 8% as Nvidia takes $2 billion stake, continuing run of similar bets (cnbc.com)

2026-03-31 | by Samantha Subin | get Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 → | tags: marvell technology, nvidia, semiconductor

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Marvell stock pops 9% as Nvidia takes $2 billion stake, continuing run of similar bets (cnbc.com)

2026-03-31 | by Samantha Subin | get Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 → | tags: nvidia, marvell, silicon photonics

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Marvell stock pops 11% as Nvidia takes $2 billion stake, continuing run of similar bets (cnbc.com)

2026-03-31 | by Samantha Subin | get Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 → | tags: nvidia, marvell, silicon photonics

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A large-scale coherent 4D imaging sensor (feeds.nature.com)

2026-03-11 | by Settembrini | get 4D LIDAR Sensor Kit → | tags: ansys lumerical, cadence virtuoso, globalfoundries 45spclo