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Tower Semi, NewPhotonics start high-volume shipments of laser-integrated optical engine PICs for AI interconnects

PUBT·09/17/2026 10:01:35
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Tower Semi, NewPhotonics start high-volume shipments of laser-integrated optical engine PICs for AI interconnects
  • Tower Semiconductor partnered with NewPhotonics to begin high-volume shipments of laser-integrated, serviceable optical-engine photonic ICs for AI interconnect.
  • Production devices support 800G to 1.6T data rates, targeting external pluggable transceivers, extra-dense packaged optics, near-packaged optics sockets.
  • Collaboration uses Tower’s PH18DA silicon photonics platform with heterogeneously integrated InP, enabling monolithic laser integration to improve yield, reliability, ramp speed.
  • NewPhotonics’ CPX-MSA compliant 6.4T NPC505 chipsets are slated to enter volume shipments in 1H27.


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