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Project to drive European quantum technology to market
Project to drive European quantum technology to market
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Project Qu-Pilot aims to accelerate the time-to-market and establish a trusted supply chain for quantum technology.
3D sensing collaboration yields 1130-nm 3D camera
3D sensing collaboration yields 1130-nm 3D camera
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Manufacturing solutions provider Jabil has announced that its optical design center in Jena, Germany is currently demonstrating a prototype of…
First 800G DR8 photonics IC design for datacenters
First 800G DR8 photonics IC design for datacenters
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Fully validated photonics design provides customers with a shortcut to create 800G DR8 transceivers and accelerates customer time to market…
Coherent machine vision solution offered as most compact, powerful
Coherent machine vision solution offered as most compact, powerful
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Silicon photonics startup SiLC Technologies has announced the launch of what it claims is the industry’s most compact and powerful…

Optical chip can train machine learning hardware
Optical chip can train machine learning hardware
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Researchers from the George Washington University, Queens University, University of British Columbia and Princeton University say they have developed an optical chip that can train machine learning hardware.
Electronic/photonic ‘chip sandwich’ promises cooler data centers
Electronic/photonic ‘chip sandwich’ promises cooler data centers
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Engineers at Caltech and the University of Southampton say they have designed an electronics chip integrated with a photonics chip.
Photonic deep learning on the edge
Photonic deep learning on the edge
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Researchers at MIT say they have created a new method to accelerate machine-learning tasks on low-powered smart devices, eliminating the need to offload such tasks to the cloud where they…
Power limits the trillion transistor era say Intel, Tesla
Power limits the trillion transistor era say Intel, Tesla
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Both Intel and Tesla have highlighted the challenges of power management that will limit the coming trillion transistor era. That era is already approaching, with the Cerebras AI processor array…
Silicon photonics integrated solution for 400G, 800G transceivers
Silicon photonics integrated solution for 400G, 800G transceivers
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Silicon photonics technology developer DustPhotonics and semiconductor company MaxLinear have announced that they have partnered to demonstrate a silicon photonics chipset with integrated lasers directly driven from a DSP without…
Imaging method sees hidden objects in high resolution
Imaging method sees hidden objects in high resolution
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Researchers at Caltech and their colleagues have described a new method that essentially transforms nearby surfaces into lenses that can be used to indirectly image previously obscured objects.
All-optical switch promises ultrafast signal processing
All-optical switch promises ultrafast signal processing
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Researchers at Caltech say they have developed a switch - one of the most fundamental components of computing - using optical, rather than electronic, components.
‘Quantum flute’ can make photons move together
‘Quantum flute’ can make photons move together
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Researchers at the University of Chicago say they have invented a “quantum flute” that - like the Pied Piper - can coerce particles of light to move together in a…
Integrated photonics advance promises next generation compute I/O
Integrated photonics advance promises next generation compute I/O
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Intel Labs, the research arm of Intel Corporation, has announces a significant advancement in its integrated photonics research - seen as the next frontier in increasing communication bandwidth between compute…
Cognifiber benchmarks its photonic AI performance  
Cognifiber benchmarks its photonic AI performance  
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Israeli startup CogniFiber has benchmarked the performance of its photonic AI technology as part of its product integration tests. CogniFiber’s approach implements direct analog neuromorphic photonic computing in an optical…
Open silicon photonics platform features integrated lasers
Open silicon photonics platform features integrated lasers
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Newly launched silicon photonics company OpenLight has unveiled its technology portfolio by introducing what it says is the world's first open silicon photonics platform with integrated lasers.
Trilite, Dispelix team for AR smart glasses
Trilite, Dispelix team for AR smart glasses
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Austrian laser projector developer TriLite is working with Dispelix in Finland on an ultra-compact display system for Augmented Reality (AR) smart glasses. The system combines TriLite’s Trixel 3 laser beam…
GlobalFoundries launches innovation lab
GlobalFoundries launches innovation lab
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GlobalFoundries has launched a programme for hardware innovation in areas such as photonics, quantum computing and wireless with key European partners. The input from companies working with GF Labs will…
World’s first commercial 200mm VCSEL wafer ships
World’s first commercial 200mm VCSEL wafer ships
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IQE in Wales has developed the world’s first commercially available 200 mm (8″) epiwafer for vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) diodes. Moving to a 200mm compound semiconductor epiwafer will…
Ayar Labs raises $130m for optical chiplets
Ayar Labs raises $130m for optical chiplets
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Optical chiplet developer Ayar Labs has raised $130m from a consortium including Nvidia and Hewlett Packard Enterprises. The Series C round brings the total investment to $195m and was led…
II-VI signs renewable energy contracts for global fabs
II-VI signs renewable energy contracts for global fabs
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II‐VI has signed renewable energy contracts for powering over 30 sites around the world, including more than two dozen that now cover 100% of their annual electricity usage with renewable…
Smart building reference design combines edge AI, privacy
Smart building reference design combines edge AI, privacy
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Optical and photonic products manufacturer Lumentum and AI vision processor specialist Ambarella have announced a new joint reference design that uniquely combines edge artificial intelligence (AI) with privacy, enabling new…
Synopsys, Juniper team to disrupt silicon photonics market
Synopsys, Juniper team to disrupt silicon photonics market
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Electronic design automation company Synopsys and networking products specialist Juniper Networks have announced that they are collaborating to invest in a new company to pursue the fast-growing silicon photonics market.
Juniper spins out silicon photonics into Synopsys joint venture
Juniper spins out silicon photonics into Synopsys joint venture
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Synopsys and Juniper Networks are setting up a joint venture to develop the industry’s first “Laser-on-a-Chip” open silicon photonics platform The joint venture, as yet unnamed but with Synopsys as…
UK photonics design centre for quantum and space
UK photonics design centre for quantum and space
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Alter Technology has opened a €6m Photonics Design Centre at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. The design centre aims to accelerate the commercialisation of highly-integrated photonic products into quantum technology…
Glass processors aim to boost edge AI
Glass processors aim to boost edge AI
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Cognifiber has developed a process for building machine learning systems with glass processors. The Israeli startup has developed a technique for in-fibre computing, using analog machine learning networks for processing…
First 800G compliance system for 112G serial data centre interfaces   
First 800G compliance system for 112G serial data centre interfaces   
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Keysight Technologies has launched the first compliance test system for validating 112Gbit/s serial data centre interface to the latest industry standards. Data centre operators and hyperscalers are…
Quad lasers for 800Gbit/s data centre links
Quad lasers for 800Gbit/s data centre links
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Vector Photonics in Glasgow has successfully produced 1300nm PCSELs (Photonic Crystal Surface Emitting Lasers) for 800Gbit/s datacom applications. The PCSEL arrays emit four, concurrent, 1300nm wavelengths, with a SMSR (Side-Mode-Suppression…
Co-Packaged optics and FPGA for 800G data centre AI links
Co-Packaged optics and FPGA for 800G data centre AI links
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Canadian photonics company Ranovus has combined its 800Gbit/s optical system with an AMD/Xilinx Versal FPGA to provide machine learning in high speed data centre links. The Ranovus Odin is a…


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