Re: Interesting read re Facebook and Photonics

Aiming to become the global leader in chip-scale photonic solutions by deploying Optical Interposer technology to enable the seamless integration of electronics and photonics for a broad range of vertical market applications

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Re: Interesting read re Facebook and Photonics

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Interesting read re Facebook and Photonics

wake

posted on Feb 08, 2019 11:56PM

Interesting post wake,

While CMOS processes are now largely automated and dominated by wafer-level processing, the manufacture of optical devices still requires significant manual intervention for post-production and packaging.

Not so much with the OI device

The demand for photonic chips has not yet justified the huge investment needed for greater automation, but Schmidtke is now confident that “we now have the volume to move to CMOS-style manufacture for photonic integrated circuits”.