This is my Fav part:
More specifically, the addition of Anadigics’ 150,000 square foot site at its headquarters in Warren, NJ, brings with it what is claimed to be the industry’s first process for fabricating VCSELs on 6-inch gallium arsenide wafers – which the company had recently introduced as a foundry offering.
VCSELS offer superior performance to LEDs for sensing applications in wearable devices and gesture-recognition interfaces, and Anadigics had previously determined that a shift from smaller-diameter wafers would be necessary for the more advanced devices to compete economically.
II-VI CEO Francis Kramer commented: “VCSELs address the need for increasingly intelligent human-machine interfaces such as gesture recognition in consumer electronics products as well as the growing demand for short-reach high-speed optical connectivity in data centers worldwide.
“Our engagement with key customers in these and other markets has been sufficiently compelling to lead us to believe that this investment is needed now.”
It references the very process we are utlizing, the potential, and even mentions key customers. Customers. Would be nice if this multi year manufatcuring deal had customers already engaged. I'm starting to get excited.