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Thursday 13 August 2026
Taiwan's packaging and integration ecosystem positions it as the backbone of CPO scaling, Ayar Labs says

The technical feasibility of co-packaged optics (CPO) has been demonstrated repeatedly at major industry conferences in recent years...

Thursday 13 August 2026
Cisco leans further into AI networking as hyperscaler orders near US$9.3 billion for the year
Cisco Systems closed fiscal 2026 with record results and told investors that the AI-driven "networking supercycle" it has described is still in its early stages. The company backed...
Thursday 13 August 2026
409.6T switches could push industry toward CPO, Arista says
Co-packaged optics (CPO) has become a major focus of the optical networking industry, but pluggable modules remain the mainstream choice for optical interconnects. At a silicon photonics...
Wednesday 12 August 2026
OCP APAC 2026: Ecosystem not yet ready for co-packaged optics, ASE's Nicole Tien warns

Co-packaged optics has become the inflection point for AI infrastructure, but the industry has not yet built the shared testing standards...

Wednesday 12 August 2026
OCP photonics panel warns CPO packaging is still unsettled as pluggables fade

Pluggable front-panel optics still own the market, but Arista co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim gave them a deadline at an OCP APAC panel...

Wednesday 12 August 2026
OCP APAC 2026: Nvidia SVP Shainer on taking CPO to mass production —'can't release something just because it's cool'

Nvidia's Spectrum-6 co-packaged optics (CPO) switches are in production and shipping, Gilad Shainer, senior vice president of networking...

Wednesday 12 August 2026
OCP APAC 2026: Cloud AI's growth hits a new bottleneck— networking, not compute

At the 2026 OCP APAC Summit, debate over networking architectures in cloud AI data centers sharpened as industry players said the main...

Wednesday 12 August 2026
MediaTek, Realtek, Himax, Elan eye optical communications boom in 2027
The use of optical communications in cloud AI data-center interconnect architectures is rising sharply, and Taiwan IC design firms including MediaTek, Realtek Semiconductor, Himax...
Wednesday 12 August 2026
Lumentum's AI optics boom drives revenue past US$1 billion, though one-time charge masks underlying profit swing
Lumentum Holdings closed its fiscal 2026 with a fourth-quarter revenue surge that underscores the centrality of optical components to the AI data center buildout, even as a large one-time...
Wednesday 12 August 2026
OCP APAC 2026: ASE unveils AI packaging trilogy

Demand for AI infrastructure is forcing chipmakers and data-center operators to rethink how systems are built, with implications for...

Tuesday 11 August 2026
TSMC affiliate VisEra scales AI optics with 1.6T silicon photonics
VisEra, the TSMC-affiliated optical components supplier, is expanding into AI optical interconnects and silicon photonics, with its MicroLens products for 800G pluggable transceivers...
Tuesday 11 August 2026
Taiwan optical firms diverge in CPO push as Corning looms large

Co-packaged optics (CPO) remains a key focus in the AI era. Beyond advanced packaging and testing, compound semiconductors, and other...

Monday 10 August 2026
Ability Enterprise July revenue hits decade high on stronger optical module shipments
Ability Enterprise posted July revenue of NT$1.159 billion, up 10.5% from June and 64% from a year earlier, reaching its highest monthly level since December 2016. The Taiwanese optics...
Friday 7 August 2026
Interview: Nvidia exec on progress of CPO production and pluggable optics
Nvidia Senior Vice President of Networking Gilad Shainer said the company is building the key network architecture and optical interconnect technologies needed for AI factory deployments...