About SMART Photonics
Eindhoven indium phosphide photonic chip foundry used for transceivers and photonic integrated circuits. In July 2023 it raised EUR 100 million from investors including ASML, NXP and VDL Groep, with EUR 60 million of public funding via PhotonDelta, to expand capacity.
SMART Photonics was founded in 2012 and is based in Eindhoven, Netherlands. It is listed under Interconnect & Networking, Photonic Computing. Reported funding is EUR 100M, Jul 2023.
Compute Technologies
- Photonics
What SMART Photonics works on
Interconnect & Networking
Interconnect is the set of links that move data between chips, between boards and between racks. It includes wires on a package, cables inside a server, and the network switches and optical fibre across a data center. A processor is only as useful as the speed at which it can get data in and out.
Photonic Computing
Photonic computing uses light instead of electricity to carry or process information. Photons have no charge, so light in a waveguide does not cause the resistive heating that current in a wire does, though lasers and modulators still use power, and many wavelengths can share one waveguide. The industry has two quite different parts: moving data with light, and computing with light.
