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Friday 6 November 2026
Pluggable optical module forms diverge; rack design emerges as key variable
As switch chips move toward 400G per channel, the gold-finger connectors used in current pluggable modules are approaching their high-frequency limits. The pluggable optics camp introduced...
Thursday 5 November 2026
Largan consolidates camera actuator unit as optical business expands into CPO
Largan Technology reported October revenue of NT$5.846 billion (US$178.1 million) on November 5, down 7.0% year-over-year, while moving to consolidate its camera actuator subsidiary...
Thursday 5 November 2026
Coherent pitches itself as the neutral optics supplier after Marvell-Lumentum deal
Coherent is positioning itself as the optics supplier with no stake in the chip wars, two days after Marvell Technology agreed to acquire one of its closest rivals.
Wednesday 4 November 2026
Huawei's Hubble builds AI optics supply chain through minority stakes in 22 companies
AI data centers are increasing demand for high-speed optical communications, making optoelectronics supply chains increasingly strategic. Marvell's announced acquisition of Lumentum...
Thursday 29 October 2026
Marvell reportedly in advanced talks to acquire Lumentum in AI optics deal
Marvell Technology is in advanced talks to acquire data-center optical component maker Lumentum Holdings, people familiar with the matter said, in what could become a major AI hardware...
Tuesday 27 October 2026
Ennostar's optical push could add new growth engine for 2027 and onward
Ennostar Holdings is expanding into optical communications as Micro LED and Micro VCSEL products move into customer sample-validation stages. The company expects the business to enter...
Tuesday 27 October 2026
OPTOELEC seeks AI data center orders as Himax advances CPO optics
South Korean optics maker Optoelec is seeing growing interest from AI data center customers as it seeks to expand its wafer-level optics (WLO) business into high-speed optical communications,...
Sunday 25 October 2026
Nvidia unveils OOI CPO prototype for post-2028 AI needs
Nvidia has unveiled a prototype of its next-generation co-packaged optics (CPO) technology, Optics-on-Interposer (OOI), at SEMICON West 2026. The design moves the optical engine from...
Thursday 22 October 2026
3M calls Largan partnership key step for US$2 billion EBO market
3M Chairman and CEO Bill Brown outlined the latest progress in the company's expanded beam optics (EBO) technology during its third-quarter earnings call, highlighting a contract manufacturing...
Tuesday 20 October 2026
Unimicron chairman sees substrate sizes reaching 14x current scale by 2030
TPCA Show 2026 officially opened, with Unimicron Chairman Shan-Chieh Chien saying in his opening address that solving the three major challenges facing AI accelerators in high-performance...
Tuesday 20 October 2026
Intel says it is the only high-volume fab for 12-inch InP silicon photonics as co-packaged optics nears deployment
Intel is pitching its foundry as the industry's supplier of light sources for AI data center optics, claiming at the 2026 Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit that it is the only...
Monday 19 October 2026
Interview: Zeiss SMO president says High-NA EUV ready for mass production, orders booked through 2027
Surging AI-driven chip demand has extended order visibility for Zeiss, a key supplier of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography optics. Christoph Hensche, president of Zeiss Semiconductor...
Monday 19 October 2026
AUO, Largan Micro LED debate highlights optical communications uncertainty
AUO chairman Paul Peng said Micro LED remains a potential option for optical communications, despite Largan Technology's doubts about pairing it with multimode fiber in co-packaged...
Thursday 15 October 2026
FIC Group opens Malaysia plant as optical module capacity targets 18 SMT lines
FIC Group opened its PRO3C (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. manufacturing facility in Johor, Malaysia, on October 15, expanding its optical communications production footprint in Southeast Asia...
Tuesday 13 October 2026
Nvidia and Cisco unveil new optics design to help scale AI factories
Nvidia and Cisco have introduced a new pluggable optics form factor to expand AI infrastructure without sharply increasing power use or network complexity. For global cloud operators,...