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Wednesday 4 November 2026
Marvell's Lumentum deal gives optical DSP rivals until 2028 to court its customers
Marvell's proposed all-stock acquisition of Lumentum faces a challenge beyond a shrinking takeover premium: whether optical module makers will shift orders away from its dominant optical...
Tuesday 3 November 2026
Mitsui Kinzoku raises ultrathin copper foil capacity target for third time as optical demand surges
Japan's Mitsui Kinzoku has announced its third capacity expansion plan since the start of fiscal 2026 for MicroThin, its ultrathin copper foil used in optical communications equipment...
Tuesday 3 November 2026
Beyond the robots: Three companies to watch at FIX 2026
Humanoid robots and self-driving cars were hard to miss at South Korea's Future Innovation Tech Expo (FIX 2026) in Daegu. But some of the less flashy technologies on display were just...
Tuesday 20 October 2026
Genius Electronic Optical partners with 3M on EBO development
Genius Electronic Optical (GSEO), a leading manufacturer of optical lenses and precision optical components, has entered into a strategic partnership with 3M to develop, manufacture...
Thursday 15 October 2026
Genius Electronic Optical secures US$150 million 3M investment for optical communications
Genius Electronic Optical, a leading manufacturer of optical lenses and precision optical components, announced on October 15 that it had formed a strategic partnership with 3M, a...
Friday 11 September 2026
Huawei stakes out the AI optics rulebook with 7.2Tbps NPO
Huawei Technologies has unveiled a 7.2-terabit-per-second near-packaged optics (NPO) module for AI data centres, coupling a high-bandwidth product launch with an effort to shape emerging...
Thursday 3 September 2026
China optical module makers ride AI boom as 800G, 1.6T orders stretch into 2027
AI infrastructure expansion is accelerating demand for 800G and 1.6T optical modules, lifting first-half 2026 results across major Chinese suppliers and extending order visibility...
Monday 31 August 2026
Lightel posts record first-half revenue, profit as LEO satellite demand rises
Lightel Technologies reported record first-half results for 2026, with consolidated revenue reaching NT$590 million (US$18.7 million), net profit at NT$107 million, and earnings per...
Tuesday 18 August 2026
Huawei Hubble builds China's InP optical chip stack for the AI interconnect era
Huawei's semiconductor investment arm is seeing an earlier optical-chip strategy line up with the AI infrastructure boom. Since 2019, Hubble Technology Investment Co. has backed a...
Thursday 13 August 2026
OCP APAC 2026: Ayar Labs CEO says copper is holding back open compute, sees optical interconnects as way forward
Speaking at the OCP APAC Summit 2026, Ayar Labs CEO Mark Wade argued that copper interconnects have become one of the biggest obstacles to realizing the vision of open computing.
Wednesday 12 August 2026
Lumentum's AI optics boom drives revenue past US$1 billion, though one-time charge masks underlying profit swing
Lumentum Holdings closed its fiscal 2026 with a fourth-quarter revenue surge that underscores the centrality of optical components to the AI data center buildout, even as a large one-time...
Wednesday 12 August 2026
OCP APAC 2026: Murata upgrades power, optical products as AI data centers strain global infrastructure
Murata Manufacturing has unveiled upgraded power converters and optical components, highlighting how rising AI workloads are pushing data centers worldwide toward denser, more efficient...
Tuesday 11 August 2026
TSMC affiliate VisEra scales AI optics with 1.6T silicon photonics
VisEra, the TSMC-affiliated optical components supplier, is expanding into AI optical interconnects and silicon photonics, with its MicroLens products for 800G pluggable transceivers...
Friday 7 August 2026
US optical transceiver ban risks slowing AI data center build-out
A proposed US ban on new Chinese optical transceivers could disrupt the build-out of AI data centers before Western suppliers have enough capacity to replace Chinese production, raising...
Friday 7 August 2026
Nokia's NXP Arizona fab buy signals AI optical bottleneck shifting upstream

Nokia is moving deeper into semiconductor manufacturing by acquiring NXP's Chandler fabrication campus in Arizona, signaling that the...