Nvidia Details Plans to use Silicon Photonics to Scale AI FactoriesNVIDIA announced plans to adopt silicon photonics and co-packaged optics to scale its AI architecture. Scientists led by Tobias Kippenberg have developed a photonic-chip-based traveling-wave...
3/20/2025
Teradyne Acquires PICs Specialist Quantifi Photonics, Celestial AI Plans to Revolutionize AITeradyne is acquiring PICs test solutions provider, Quantifi Photonics. Celestial AI raises $250M for the development of its photonic fabric technology. Researchers with the Capasso Group at Harvard...
3/13/2025
30x the Resolution in Fluorescence Microscopy, Using Beams of Light for a New InternetMoving data at the speed of light! A new chip from Google could replace fiber with wireless beams for high-speed internet. A team lead by Stefan Hell is delivering 30 times the resolution in...
3/6/2025
Wearable Bionic Device Could Alter Machine Vision, and UbiQD Plans to Boost Solar PowerQ.ANT announces the debut of its pilot line for Photonic AI chip production. STMicroelectronics is unveiling its next generation of tech for increasing performance in optical interconnects in data...
2/27/2025
Fraunhofer Completes their Board and LightPath Acquires G5 InfraredFraunhofer’s newly named vice president of research and transfer is officially in place with Constantin Haefner officially assuming those duties. LightPath Technologies acquires G5 Infrared for $27M....
2/20/2025
GlobalFoundries' Leadership Shuffle, Relativity Networks Raises $4.6m in Pre-Seed FundingGlobalFoundries names their next CEO and Executive Chair. Jason Eichenholz comes out of retirement to advance fiber optics with Relativity Networks. Nuburu makes changes to its board after regaining...
2/13/2025
Lumentum Makes a Change at CEO, Image of Warship Firing Laser Weapon Goes ViralLumentum is making a change at CEO. An employee of a Lithuanian laser maker is accused of selling tech to the Russian military. VueReal secures more than $40M to help ramp up production. And an image...
2/6/2025
Recapping the Biggest Announcements and Happenings from Photonics West 2025Photonics Spectra Now is coming to you from the biggest event in our industry, Photonics West! We're speaking with officials from SPIE to learn more about what's new in this year's show, and to see...
1/30/2025
GlobalFoundries' Packaging and Photonics Center in N.Y., Metal Foam Enables Brightest X-Ray SourceGlobalFoundries announces plans to create an advance packaging and photonics center at its facility in Malta, NY. In acquisition news, Headwall acquires EVK and Praevium becomes a division of...
1/23/2025
Photonics Takes Center Stage at CES, SPIE Names Fellows and Award WinnersA number of photonics innovations dominated the tech at CES 2025 including AI systems from NVIDIA and autonomous machines from John Deere. SPIE names 47 fellows of the society and gives out some big...
1/16/2025