Technology Area
Silicon photonics, optical interconnect and photonic integration technologies.
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Photonics includes silicon photonic integrated circuits, III-V lasers and detectors, and optical interconnect used to move data with light. Waveguides, modulators, multiplexers and fiber coupling are often co-packaged with electronics for data-center, telecom and sensing use.
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Ayar Labs TeraPHY is an optical I/O chiplet that combines silicon photonics with CMOS technology to provide high-bandwidth, low-latency chip-to-chip and package-to-package connectivity for large-scale computing systems.
AI & HPCData CenterTelecommunicationsView Technology
Broadcom’s CPO platform heterogeneously integrates optical engines (TSMC COUPE) with Ethernet switch silicon. Tomahawk 6–Davisson is the third-generation CPO switch: 102.4 Tbps optically enabled capacity and a claimed reduction in optical-interconnect power versus pluggables.
AI & HPCData CenterTelecommunicationsView TechnologySan’an LED is a compound-semiconductor epitaxy and chip platform, not a packaged lamp catalog.
AutomotiveIndustrialConsumer ElectronicsView TechnologyKey application areas leveraging these technologies.
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