Events in frontier tech 29 events
Nov 2026
Announcement Unverified Nov 2 7d 7 days ago
U.S. National Science Foundation-supported researcher Jonathan Zuegel discusses the future of high-powered laser research in the United States, the ambitious NSF Optical Parametric Amplifier Line (NSF OPAL) laser facility. NSF OPAL is designed to…
Oct 2026
Announcement Unverified Oct 21 2w 2 weeks ago
From orbit, today’s space-based laser instruments measure Earth’s forests and terrain one narrow line at a time. Between those lines are enormous gaps that include millions of acres of land scientists never directly measure. NASA’s CASALS instrument will blend machine learning with an ultra-compact
Announcement Unverified Oct 20 2w 2 weeks ago
U.S. National Science Foundation-supported researcher Louise Willingale discusses the most powerful laser in the United States, the NSF Zettawatt Equivalent Ultrashort Pulse Laser System, how it's being used to advance science, and how it will become…
Sep 2026
Product Sep 23 6w 6 weeks ago
Developers can write, run and test applications accelerated by photonic processors.
Product Sep 21 7w 7 weeks ago
Demos include 2nm 400G per lane PAM4 and 800G ZR/ZR+ pluggable optics.
Aug 2026
Announcement Unverified Aug 31 2mo 2 months ago
Chunlei Guo, an NSF-supported researcher, discusses his work using femtosecond lasers to design materials with highly functionalized purposes...
Announcement Aug 13 2mo 2 months ago
A coalition led by Lightmatter aims to standardize silicon photonics ready infrastructure for AI racks.
Announcement Aug 5 3mo 3 months ago
The lidar maker applies its high-power optical source and silicon photonics to AI data centers from 2027.
Jun 2026
Announcement Jun 3 5mo 5 months ago
Lightmatter brings its photonic interconnects to NVLink Fusion based AI systems.
Announcement Jun 2 5mo 5 months ago
Ayar Labs makes its CPO products compatible with NVIDIA optical and SerDes technology.
Apr 2026
Deal Apr 15 6mo 6 months ago
Teramount's detachable fiber-to-chip coupling targets high-volume co-packaged optics.
Mar 2026
Milestone Mar 11 8mo 8 months ago
The chiplet uses 16-wavelength DWDM to reach 1.6 Tbps on a single fiber.
Feb 2026
Deal Feb 2 9mo 9 months ago
The Photonic Fabric team and technology are now part of Marvell.
Jan 2026
Deal Jan 27 9mo 9 months ago
MicroVision takes the Iris and Halo lidar IP, staff and contracts from Luminar's Section 363 sale.
Deal Jan 26 9mo 9 months ago
GUC will integrate Lightmatter's Passage 3D CPO into custom AI ASICs.
Dec 2025
Deal Dec 2, 2025 11mo 11 months ago
Marvell gains Celestial AI's Photonic Fabric optical I/O for package and rack scale links.
Nov 2025
Product Nov 18, 2025 11mo 11 months ago
The new Native Processing Server targets AI and HPC data centers.
Deal Nov 10, 2025 12mo 12 months ago
Adds 1550nm frequency-modulated continuous wave lidar on photonic chips to MicroVision.
Sep 2025
Product Sep 26, 2025 1y 1 year ago
The CPO design extends scale-up links across multiple racks.
Jul 2025
Milestone Jul 22, 2025 1y 1 year ago
First analog photonic co-processor integrated into an operating HPC center.
Apr 2025
Breakthrough Apr 9, 2025 1y 1 year ago
The integrated photonic accelerator shows ultralow latency on hard optimization problems.
Mar 2025
Product Mar 31, 2025 1y 1 year ago
A 3D CPO product meant to be integrated with XPU and switch silicon.
Product Mar 31, 2025 1y 1 year ago
An optical I/O chiplet with a standard UCIe electrical interface for AI scale-up systems.
Product Mar 18, 2025 1y 1 year ago
Co-packaged optics switches built with TSMC, Coherent, Lumentum and others claim 3.5x energy savings.
Milestone Mar 12, 2025 1y 1 year ago
Built on Tower's PH18DA platform, the modulators target 3.2T optical links for AI.
Dec 2024
Breakthrough Dec 2, 2024 1y 1 year ago
The chip classified data in under half a nanosecond at over 92 percent accuracy, per Nature Photonics.
Nov 2024
Product Nov 19, 2024 1y 1 year ago
The NPU, built on the LENA architecture, targets energy-efficient HPC and AI workloads.
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