Rockley Photonics, a fabless supplier of silicon photonics chipsets, IP, and design for high volume optics applications, has raised $40 million in a recent funding round that will enable it to expand its design and production platform

MIT spin-off Lightmatter has received $11 million in series A funding to accelerate the development of an ultra-efficient silicon chip that processes using light, rather than electricity, to enable a faster and more efficient form of artificial intelligence

Researchers at TU Wien have developed a silicon-based sensor as a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) that is capable of measuring the strength of electric fields while being much smaller, simpler and less prone to distortion than comparable devices

Silicon photonics is on the verge of experiencing dramatic uptake in optical transceivers, market research firm Yole Développement has reported, with the technology set to capture 35 per cent of the total optical transceiver market by 2025

Mellanox Technologies, a supplier of smart interconnect solutions for data centre servers and storage systems, has announced that it will discontinue its 1,550nm silicon photonics development activities, effective immediately, as a result of the business not growing as much as anticipated