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Saturday 27 December 2025
Chipbond finds new growth engine in silicon photonics
With panel industry demand remaining weak, display driver IC testing and packaging specialist Chipbond is pursuing a second growth engine and has formally entered the silicon photonics...
Friday 26 December 2025
AI drives high-speed optics shift as LuxNet, TrueLight scale 800G and CW lasers by 2026
As AI workloads intensify and data centre architectures evolve, optical communications vendors are positioning co-packaged optics (CPO) and silicon photonics (SiPh) as core mid- to...
Sunday 21 December 2025
Taiwan academics seek to break through SiPh yield bottlenecks
Cloud computing, GenAI, and high-performance computing continue to drive bandwidth and energy efficiency demands. Line rates have now been pushed beyond 100–200Gbps. The intense...
Tuesday 9 December 2025
UMC licenses Imec SiPh tech, plans risk production in 2026-27
UMC announced on December 8, 2025, that it has signed a technology licensing agreement with Belgium-based Imec to acquire the Imec iSiPP300 silicon photonics (SiPh) process. This...
Tuesday 9 December 2025
Samsung moves to narrow gap with TSMC as silicon photonics race heats up
Samsung Electronics is accelerating development of silicon photonics (SiPh) technology in an effort to solve bottlenecks in advanced AI processors and narrow the competitive gap with...
Wednesday 3 December 2025
BizLink to acquire XFS Communications, expand optical interconnect business

BizLink said on December 1 that it signed a definitive agreement to acquire Shenzhen-based XFS Communications, aiming to expand its optical...

Tuesday 2 December 2025
Merck launches Kaohsiung semiconductor flagship campus to target AI and silicon photonics
Merck Group's Kaohsiung semiconductor technology flagship campus officially completed phase one on December 1, marking Merck's first large-scale semiconductor materials technology...
Friday 28 November 2025
FitTech targets 2Q26 profits with goal to become Taiwan's largest foundry
FitTech has had weak performance since 2023. It posted a net loss attributable to the parent of NT$290 million (approx. US$9.2 million) for the first three quarters of 2025, although...
Thursday 27 November 2025
FOCI advances 1.6T SiPh for AI servers, eyes mass production
Driven by the AI server market, FOCI is steadily advancing its 1.6T-class silicon photonics (SiPh) products toward mass production. General manager DD Hu announced that sample shipments...
Saturday 22 November 2025
AI workloads propel revolution in photonic chips, as startups jostle for position and tech giants seek to integrate
Rapid advances in AI technology have exposed fundamental network bottlenecks, since traditional connections can no longer keep up with the massive transmission demands of AI. Billions...
Thursday 20 November 2025
Ligitek Electronics to invest in silicon photonics in cleanroom facilities with government support
Taiwan-based LED manufacturer Ligitek Electronics announced plans to enter the silicon photonics (SiPh) sector, investing tens of millions of New Taiwan dollars in cleanroom equipment...
Tuesday 18 November 2025
GlobalFoundries expands SiPh footprint with AMF acquisition in Singapore

GlobalFoundries (GF) has acquired Singapore-based Advanced Micro Foundry (AMF), positioning the US chipmaker as the world's largest...

Wednesday 12 November 2025
Luxshare speeds into AI server market with 800G SiPh, liquid cooling rollout
Luxshare Precision Industry Co., a major Chinese electronics manufacturer, is fast-tracking its expansion into the AI server supply chain. On November 11, 2025, the company announced...
Wednesday 12 November 2025
Tower Semiconductor tops forecasts, to invest US$300 million in silicon photonics expansion

Israel-based wafer foundry Tower Semiconductor reported third-quarter 2025 results that exceeded market expectations, signaling strong...

Saturday 1 November 2025
LandMark eyes strong SiPh growth with rising long-term orders
LandMark expects its silicon photonics (SiPh) product shipments to continue increasing over the next few quarters, with fourth quarter 2025 revenue projected to match or slightly...