Ennostar today announced a breakthrough in Micro LED optical communications. The company’s R&D team has increased the single-channel -3 dB modulation bandwidth of its blue Micro LED to 2.1 GHz at a current density of 2 kA/cm². The sample further demonstrated a modulation bandwidth of up to 3.3 GHz at a current density of 5 kA/cm2. These results place Ennostar’s technology among the industry’s top-tier performance benchmarks and approaching the commercial specifications required for short-reach optical transmission using Micro LEDs. The...

Lumentum CEO Michael Hurlston has warned that the supply-demand gap for indium phosphide (InP) has now surpassed that of DRAM and NAND, making it one of the most critical constraints on AI data center optical interconnect expansion. Despite operating multiple InP wafer fabrication facilities, Lumentum continues to face widening supply shortages as customer demand outpaces production. Orders that once numbered in the hundreds for telecom customers have surged to hundreds of millions of devices, driven by NVIDIA and hyperscale data center operators. As A...

Innoviz Technologies Ltd., a leading supplier of high-performance automotive-grade LiDAR sensor platforms for the automotive, security, defense, and industrial markets, today announced the development of a LiDAR-based perception stack with a top 10 global automotive OEM. Under the collaboration, Innoviz will develop and validate a complete LiDAR-based perception stack for a highway operational design domain (ODD) to explore potential for the OEM's future programs. The project includes Innoviz's InnovizTwo LiDAR solution and perception capabiliti...

International automotive supplier FORVIA HELLA has put its new-generation Rain Light Sensors into series production. With high sensitivity and fully automatic adjustment, it delivers precise, real-time environmental sensing that enhances safety and supports a more comfortable in-cabin experience for consumers. The sensors are developed and produced locally in China for a well-known local new energy vehicle manufacturer, underscoring FORVIA HELLA’s commitment to localized innovation and customer-focused performance. “Intelligence and electrifica...

Zhongji Innolight, a global leader in optical transceivers, officially listed on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX) on July 30, 2026. The company priced its H-share offering at HKD 980 per share, securing base gross proceeds of HKD 53.410 billion (with net proceeds reaching approximately HKD 54.513 billion). If the 15% over-allotment option is exercised in full, total fundraising will expand to HKD 61.422 billion. This marks the largest IPO on the HKEX in 2026 to date, as well as the largest Hong Kong listing event since Alibaba...

AIXTRON SE (FSE: AIXA, ISIN DE000A0WMPJ6) benefitted from a strong order intake of EUR 214.5 million (+81% yoy) in the second quarter 2026. This underlines the continued strong market momentum, driven by very strong demand for optoelectronic systems. Major laser system shipments are expected to begin in Q3/2026 and continue well beyond the current fiscal year. The volume ramp at AIXTRON and its suppliers is well on track. Hence, the company confirms the raised guidance released on April 14, 2026. In the power electronics as well as the Micro L...

Innoviz Technologies Ltd., a leading supplier of high-performance automotive-grade LiDAR sensor platforms for the automotive, security, defense and industrial markets, today announced that it has received multimillion-dollar orders of several hundred LiDAR units from a defense customer, with potential for additional units upon the successful completion of the first deployment. The orders come at a period of growing momentum for Innoviz in the defense and homeland security markets. In recent weeks, Innoviz has announced collaborations with several defense and counter-UAS...

Harnessing the power of digital light, ams OSRAM products and know-how are transforming mobility, communications, sensing and more. After Thomas Edison first commercialized the light bulb, electrically powered illumination transformed the lives of millions of ordinary people. It was perhaps the first mass-market revolution in photonics technology. Digital Photonics at a glance Digital Photonics is at the core of ams OSRAM's strategy, describing the combination of pixelated light emitters and sensors with digital interfaces turning them into intelligent systems. ...

A high-end compound semiconductor substrate project with a total investment of RMB 2 billion (approximately USD 280 million) has been officially approved and will be established in Quzhou, Zhejiang Province, according to the Zhejiang Provincial Online Investment Project Approval and Supervision Platform. The project will be developed by Vital Micro-Electronics Technology (Zhejiang) Co., Ltd. and is designed to deliver an annual production capacity of 3 million gallium arsenide (GaAs) substrates and 3 million indium phosphide (InP) substrates, for a combine...

The humanoid robot’s moment has arrived. We know this, not because big technology companies are suddenly able to stage Tiktok video-friendly performances of robots dancing or mimicking a human partner’s movement. That’s hype: the reality of how humanoid robots are going to perform is actually far more interesting. The reason for the worldwide wave of interest in humanoid robots is because of a new alignment between the robot’s technical capabilities – made possible for the first time by AI – and the huge unmet demand for automation in spaces ...

Innoviz Technologies Ltd., a leading supplier of high-performance, automotive-grade LiDAR sensor platforms for autonomous driving, today marks its emergence as a recurring player across the counter-UAS integrator ecosystem, referring to its recently announced partnerships with six Israeli defense and homeland security integrators in the past three months, through its new defense and homeland security brand, Perciz. The same LiDAR platform selected by BMW, Volkswagen, Mobileye, and Daimler Truck is now being used by leading Israeli counter-UAS integrators unde...

Innoviz Technologies Ltd., a leading provider of high-performance automotive-grade LiDAR and perception solutions, today announced the launch of Perciz, a dedicated brand focused on defense and homeland security applications. Utilizing the company's commercially available LiDAR sensors, already deployed in non-automotive applications, the new brand marks a strategic expansion of Innoviz's mission, bringing the company's expertise in advanced sensing, AI, and machine intelligence to address the growing challenges facing modern security and defense organizations. ...

The massive sums being spent on data center infrastructure reflect a surge in demand for AI, both to train frontier models, and to perform the inference operations which drive the outputs of agents such as ChatGPT and Claude. AI data centers are made up of networks of processors and memory devices. Today, the majority of the links which connect computing systems are made of copper wires, in the form of backplanes and cables. But now data centers are faced with the challenge of massively increasing network bandwidth both within and between servers. The traditional technical...

Huawei, Baidu and other industry partners have launched China’s first multi-source agreement (MSA) for near-packaged optics (NPO), aiming to establish an open and unified technical standard framework for next-generation high-speed optical interconnects and accelerate ecosystem collaboration. According to Huawei Computing’s official WeChat account, the Supernode and GW-level AIDC Technology Forum, along with the Open AI Infra Community’s semiannual meeting, was held in Beijing on July 9 under the guidance of the Global Computing Consort...

On July 3, BOE disclosed its latest investor relations update, outlining recent progress in optical interconnects, glass core substrates, perovskites, as well as its LCD and OLED businesses. Optical interconnect is one of BOE’s key strategic focus sector. The company said it plans to give full play to its long-standing expertise in display technologies, glass processing, and large-scale intelligent manufacturing to advance optical interconnect and glass-substrate co-packaged optics (CPO) technologies. To accelerate development, BOE has established dedic...

Innoviz Technologies Ltd., a leading supplier of high-performance, automotive-grade LiDAR sensor platforms, today announced a collaboration to integrate Innoviz's LiDAR technology into AeroNous Solutions Ltd.'s open-architecture command-and-control platform for counter-UAS operations. AeroNous builds systems that unify sensors, effectors, and third-party data sources into a single operational picture for detecting, tracking, and responding to aerial threats, and the company identified continuous, precise drone localization as a critical capability for that pictur...

Innoviz Technologies Ltd., a leading supplier of high-performance, automotive-grade LiDAR sensor platforms, today announced a partnership with Cogniteam Ltd., a leading provider of AI-powered perception and autonomy software platforms, in connection with advanced Counter-UAS (C-UAS) perception module. The integration between Innoviz's LiDAR solutions and Cogniteam's perception module is designed to enable system integrators and security solution providers to rapidly deploy highly accurate drone detection, localization, tracking, and classification systems. ...

Infrared focal plane arrays (FPAs) are image sensors that detect and convert infrared light into electrical signals to generate real-time thermal images. Advances in cryogenic FPAs have enabled higher resolution, larger formats, improved sensitivity, and faster imaging speeds, but they also require data rates exceeding 100 gigabits per second. Conventional electrical interconnects used to meet these demands increase the number of connections, leading to higher heat load through copper links, which can leak into FPAs, raise noise levels, and increase cooling requirements and po...

Amid the AI data center expansion and computing arms race, NVIDIA, Google, and Meta have strategically secured production capacity from EML and CW-DFB LD suppliers. This move underscores the strategic importance of laser diodes in advancing optical communication technology while driving demand for high-power products with superior thermal capabilities. Tong Hsing Electronic, a world-renowned ceramic substrate supplier, has introduced multiple products for customers to explore use cases in the optical communications, high-voltage direct current (HVDC), and low Ea...

Ouster, Inc., a leader in sensing and perception for Physical AI, announced today that Rev8, its new family of OS digital lidar sensors, complies with Build America, Buy America (BABA) Act requirements. The BABA Act establishes a strict domestic procurement preference across all federally-funded infrastructure projects. With this compliance milestone, Ouster’s Rev8 sensors are eligible for deployment by state and local transportation agencies, engineering firms, and system integrators in U.S. government-funded infrastructure upgrades, including intelligen...

Innoviz Technologies Ltd., a leading supplier of high-performance, automotive-grade LiDAR sensor platforms, today announced a collaboration with Regulus, focused on improving counter-UAS performance in complex operational environments, including defense solutions, homeland security, critical infrastructure and government facilities. By combining Regulus' expertise in counter-UAS with Innoviz's advanced LiDAR capabilities, the companies are addressing one of the industry's most difficult challenges: maintaining reliable situational awareness and precise tra...

GlassBridge™ is a wafer‑based fiber‑to‑PIC technology platform designed to support scalable manufacturing, robust TMT‑compatible interfaces, and detachable high‑channel‑count connectivity. Built on Corning’s expertise in glass science and precision manufacturing, GlassBridge enables flexibility and density without compromising reliability. As part of a broader connector system architecture, GlassBridge functions both as a precise glass component and as a complete connector assembly, providing system designers with a practical, manufacturable path to next‑...

Drive Group, comprising six leading transportation and infrastructure companies in Israel, and the technology company Innoviz Technologies Ltd., a leading supplier of high-performance, automotive-grade LiDAR sensor platforms, announced today the signing of a strategic collaboration agreement. The agreement is designed to promote the integration of Innoviz's existing LiDAR technology (InnovizSMART) into Drive Group's ITS (Intelligent Transportation Systems) and perimeter security solutions, with a specific focus on the joint project "Barak LightGu...

Samsung Electronics today announced a partnership with Alcedis, a digital-first clinical research organization (CRO) specializing in data-driven clinical trials, to translate biometrics collected by wearable devices into meaningful evidence for clinical trials in pharmaceutical and other research organizations, maximizing efficiency in terms of both cost and time. Wearable technologies have become a widely available and cost-effective way to capture continuous, real-world health data, making them extremely appealing for clinical research. However, many research programs struggle t...

Innoviz Technologies Ltd., a leading supplier of high-performance, automotive-grade LiDAR sensors, today highlighted its role as a LiDAR supplier for Mobileye Drive™, following the announcement by Mobileye (NASDAQ: MBLY) that it will establish a vertically integrated robotaxi business, targeting launch in a U.S. city in 2027. Mobileye Drive™ is a standalone self-driving system that enables mobility service providers and vehicle manufacturers to make robotaxis, ride-pooling, public transport, and goods delivery fully autonomous. Innoviz LiDARs a...

As AI data center deployments continue to accelerate, demand for high-speed optical interconnects has seen burgeoning growth, triggering a new wave of capacity expansion across the optical communications industry. On June 16, Dongshan Precision (DSBJ) announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Source Photonics Holdings (Cayman) Limited, and its affiliated entities will invest in optical chip and optical module expansion projects in Changzhou and other locations. The projects carry a total investment of USD 1.2 billion, funded entirely through the company’s o...

Coherent Corp., the global photonics leader, today announced it has signed a letter of intent to receive up to $50 million in direct funding under the CHIPS and Science Act from the U.S. Department of Commerce to expand its world-leading 6-inch Indium Phosphide (InP) semiconductor manufacturing facility in Sherman, Texas. The investment will support growing demand for optical networking technologies that power AI datacenters and further strengthen Coherent’s longstanding and recently expanded partnership with NVIDIA. At project completion, the Sherman ...

Ouster, Inc., a leader in sensing and perception for Physical AI, and Benchmark Electronics, Inc., a global provider of manufacturing, engineering, and technology services, announced today the expansion of their long-term manufacturing partnership to support the high-volume production of Ouster's new Rev8 OS sensor family for industrial, robotics, automotive, and smart infrastructure applications. "Benchmark is proud of our long-standing partnership with Ouster and the role we have played in supporting Ouster’s many innovations. Rev8 is a prime example of th...

Innoviz Technologies Ltd., a leading supplier of high-performance, automotive-grade LiDAR sensor platforms, today announced it will showcase, together with AMORPH Systems, a technology company specializing in LiDAR-based spatial intelligence, 3D perception, and real-time analytics for transportation, aviation, and critical infrastructure environments, at the ITS America Conference & Expo 2026 in Detroit. At Innoviz's booth, the two companies will demonstrate InnovizSMART LiDAR operating within AMORPH's AMORPH.senses perception pla...

The awarded program reinforces FORVIA’s position as a key player in next-generation in-cabin safety systems. The solution combines a traditional interior mirror with a seamlessly integrated camera, designed to monitor both driver behavior and cabin activity in real time. This intelligent system enables the detection of driver attention levels, drowsiness, and distraction, while also assessing passenger occupancy. By enhancing situational awareness inside the vehicle, it contributes to improved overall safety and supports the evolution toward more autonomous driving expe...