Nvidia burns $4B to light up US photonics manufacturing
Nvidia invests $4 billion in Coherent and Lumentum with multibillion-dollar purchase commitments to secure silicon photonics technology for datacenter networking infrastructure.
Silicon photonics adoption in datacenters remains distant; scaled copper interconnects and pluggable optics will dominate until silicon photonics becomes necessary.
Nvidia burns $4B to light up US photonics manufacturing
Nvidia invests $4 billion in Coherent and Lumentum with multibillion-dollar purchase commitments to secure silicon photonics technology for datacenter networking infrastructure.
Microsoft-backed hollow-core fiber boffins show speed boost
Hollow-core fiber design achieves record-low optical loss, reducing latency and amplification needs while increasing bandwidth for faster, greener datacenter and mobile networking.
