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Optical switch insertion loss in Xanadu's photonic quantum hardware has dropped to 7 millidecibels (mdB), down from about 20 mdB a year earlier, according to Xanadu Quantum Technologies and its thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN)…
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MaxLinear is adding power delivery to its 1.6T optical-module lineup with Jeju (MxL77904), a custom multiphase power management IC built for the core rails…
OIF initiated seven connectivity specification projects at its November 2026 Bangkok meeting, spanning 448G electrical interfaces, 200G bidirectional optics, higher-power laser sources, CMIS and…
Google Cloud's TPU 8tx combines AMD EPYC CPU hosts and hardware-enforced confidential computing while TPU 8i Max doubles compute, SRAM and HBM bandwidth versus…
NVIDIA, Rebellions and SK Telecom will integrate Rebellions R200 inference NPUs using NVLink Fusion and MGX for South Korean sovereign AI infrastructure, with systems…
Broadcom has contributed its VM API project to CNCF Sandbox to advance Kubernetes-native management of virtual machines, alongside a new workload conformance effort and…
Keysight certified ADS Photonic Designer for Tower Semiconductor's PH18 silicon photonics PDK, enabling electronic-photonic circuit co-design and EOE simulation ahead of tapeout.
Infineon has demonstrated functional silicon carbide power devices on 300mm wafers at Villach, a manufacturing milestone that could improve SiC economics for high-voltage systems…
Sanmina guided fiscal 2027 revenue to $17.5 billion–$19.5 billion, up about 27% at the midpoint from the $14.53 billion it reported for fiscal 2026.
SoftBank Group and Grab Holdings have signed joint development agreements with Petroleum Sarawak Berhad (PETROS), Sarawak's state-owned energy company, to build AI infrastructure in…
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