Uncle Sam sees the light, offers GlobalFoundries $300M to pursue silicon photonics while taking 1% stake
The money's supposedly not a tit-for-tat, but an investment designed to spur development of silicon photonics networking technologies that the AI industry needs for datacenters. “With today’s compute supply chain investments, the Trump Administration is accelerating America’s innovation engine,” Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said in a canned statement. REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); Both CPO, where optical engines are integrated directly into the compute logic, and NPO, where the optics reside in a module adjacent to the compute, are expected to be big business over the next couple of years.
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