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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,...
Tuesday 13 October 2026
Wistron, Wiwynn spotlight liquid-cooled AI compute, storage at OCP
Wistron and Wiwynn are showcasing next-generation AI compute and storage systems for AI factories at the 2026 Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit in San Jose, California, with...
Tuesday 13 October 2026
Interview: Microsoft's Maia GM on Maia 300, Taiwan and HBM supply
Microsoft's in-house Azure Maia chips will become the main platform for its own AI services, including Microsoft 365 Copilot, GitHub Copilot and Microsoft Foundry. However, the company...
Monday 12 October 2026
Commentary: Largan plays defense in phones, presses CPO offensive
Largan chairman Adam Lin spoke about the company's cautious smartphone outlook while taking a more aggressive stance on co-packaged optics (CPO) during a recent online earnings briefing...
Monday 12 October 2026
Lumentum says AI laser capacity is sold out into 2029 as hyperscalers help fund expansion
The shortage of indium phosphide (InP) lasers that feed AI data center optics is lengthening, not easing. Lumentum now says its capacity is spoken for into early 2029, and its largest...
Monday 12 October 2026
Largan shifts new plant to FAU production as smartphone orders soften
Largan Technology said on October 8 that demand for new smartphone models weakened in September and that its newly completed automated plant will be used entirely for fiber array units,...
Thursday 8 October 2026
AUO subsidiary Darwin shifts toward high-end manufacturing, explores CPO and semiconductor opportunities
As AUO deepens its push into co-packaged optics (CPO), its subsidiary Darwin Precisions is also exploring opportunities in the semiconductor sector, leveraging its expertise in precision...
Wednesday 7 October 2026
Huawei's NPO bet challenges CPO's path to AI scale
Huawei is backing near-packaged optics (NPO) rather than co-packaged optics (CPO) for its next-generation AI infrastructure, arguing that NPO offers a better balance of cost, manufacturability,...
Wednesday 7 October 2026
Marvell raises 2028 revenue outlook to US$20 billion as AI connectivity expands
Marvell Technology is betting that the next phase of AI infrastructure growth will require substantially more networking and optical connectivity, raising its fiscal 2028 revenue outlook...