Category Archives: Photonics

Silicon photonics wafer glowing with optical light beams inside a semiconductor foundry

GlobalFoundries (GFS): Silicon Photonics and the Quantum Foundry Bet

GlobalFoundries (GFS): Silicon Photonics and the Quantum Foundry Bet Every technology ecosystem needs a foundation, and in semiconductors that foundation is the foundry: the company that actually manufactures the chips others design. GlobalFoundries (Nasdaq: GFS) has spent years as the quiet builder in that role, the third-largest pure-play foundry in the world behind Taiwan Semiconductor…

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Marvell custom silicon and optical interconnects wiring an AI data center cluster

Marvell (MRVL): The AI Data Center Backbone — Real Business or Trillion-Dollar Narrative?

Marvell (MRVL): The AI Data Center Backbone — Real Business or Trillion-Dollar Narrative? On June 2, 2026, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stood on the Computex stage in Taipei next to Marvell CEO Matt Murphy and called Marvell “the next trillion-dollar company.” The stock jumped more than 32% the next day. For a company most retail…

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Technical diagram showing GPU and optical engine integration powered by light to demonstrate co-packaged optics architecture in AI datacenters.

Coherent (COHR) Stock Analysis 2026: The AI Photonics Giant Powering NVIDIA’s Optical FutureIs

Coherent DeepDive – NVIDIA Partnership, 1.6T Optics, AI Datacenters & Massive Growth Potential Artificial intelligence is rapidly evolving into one of the largest infrastructure buildouts in modern technology history, casting a massive spotlight on Coherent (COHR). Yet while most investors remain focused on GPUs, AI models, and semiconductor compute performance, a quieter battle is taking…

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Lumentum (LITE) Stock Analysis 2026: The Optical Backbone Quietly Powering the AI Revolution

The AI Optical Infrastructure Giant Entering a New Era Artificial intelligence is no longer just a software story. It has become an infrastructure arms race. While investors have spent the past two years focusing heavily on GPU leaders like NVIDIA Corporation, a second layer of the AI ecosystem has quietly become equally important: the optical…

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