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GlobalFoundries, Corning Team Up for Next-Gen Connectivity Solutions
MALTA, N.Y., Sept. 30, 2025 — GlobalFoundries (GF) and Corning have entered into an agreement to jointly develop detachable fiber connector solutions for GF's silicon photonics platform. The collaboration combines GF's silicon photonics and Corning's portfolio of glass compositions, glass wafer, ion exchange, and laser processing, as well as fiber array units for demanding data center and high-performance computing applications.
According to the companies, the effort specifically leverages Corning’s GlassBridge glass-waveguide based edge-coupler solution. The partners said that they plan to develop other coupling mechanisms, too, including a vertically-coupled detachable fiber-to-PIC solution — demonstrating GlobalFoundries and Corning’s combined ability to produce multiple forms of co-packaged PIC-to-fiber connectivity.
For GF, the move comes after the company entered into separate partnerships with Applied Materials and Egis last week. Corning entered into collaboration agreements this spring with Broadcom and Xanadu.
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Published: September 2025
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- photonics
- The technology of generating and harnessing light and other forms of radiant energy whose quantum unit is the photon. The science includes light emission, transmission, deflection, amplification and detection by optical components and instruments, lasers and other light sources, fiber optics, electro-optical instrumentation, related hardware and electronics, and sophisticated systems. The range of applications of photonics extends from energy generation to detection to communications and...
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