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Silicon photonics, which has been drawing more and more
attention, uses light rather than electric current to process
and transmit data.
OpenLight's chief operating officer, Thomas Mader, said the new
platform will make it easier for more semiconductor companies to
integrate silicon photonics into their chip designs. It will
first be launched for use through Tower Semiconductor Ltd, which
Intel Corp. is in the process of buying. Intel has its own
silicon photonics technology.
More and more startups have been using silicon photonics for
faster, more energy-efficient computing. PitchBook estimated
earlier this year that silicon photonics will become common
hardware in data centers by 2025 with an estimated market of $3
billion.
The OpenLight platform, according to Mader, is different from
many other silicon photonics solutions because the laser can be
integrated directly onto the die, the silicon square part of the
chip. The technology can be used for a wide range of chips from
those used in lidars, sensors that use light to see things, to
data centers, telecommunications and high-performance computing
systems.
(Reporting by Jane Lanhee Lee; Editing by Leslie Adler)
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