Xscape Photonics, a startup with offices in Fort Lee, New Jersey, and Santa Clara, California, raised $37 million in new funding on March 11, 2026, bringing its Series A total to $81 million, with par…
Salience Labs, a startup spun out of Oxford University and the University of Münster, has built an optical circuit switch based entirely on silicon photonics technology that it says can reconfigure po…
Tower Semiconductor will spend roughly $3bn expanding its 300mm operations in Japan, net of about $1bn in grants from the Japanese government, to boost production of optical components for AI data cen…
Tower Semiconductor announced a $3 billion expansion of its 300mm semiconductor facilities in Japan, backed by $1 billion in grants from Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry. The expansion…
Tower Semiconductor and Marvell Technology have shipped over five million photonic integrated circuits for AI data center interconnects, marking a shift from copper to light-based data transmission. T…
Tower Semiconductor announced a photonics milestone aimed at advancing AI data center connectivity, enhancing high-speed data transmission for AI workloads.…
Tower Semiconductor's market capitalization surged to approximately $38 billion in mid-June 2026, briefly making it Israel's most valuable publicly traded company, surpassing Teva Pharmaceutical, driv…
Multiple optical-photonics companies announced capacity expansions in mid-June 2026, driven by AI data center demand. Coherent Corp. received up to $50 million under the CHIPS Act to quadruple wafer p…
Tower Semiconductor has shipped over 5 million coherent photonic integrated circuits to Marvell Technology for AI data center interconnect networks, marking a milestone in silicon photonics production…