Photonics News
Latest Photonics news and analysis — 33 articles tagged Photonics on The Robotics Media.
- Creotech Preps DV-QKD Module For 2026 Launch After EU Sign-Off — — Poland's Warsaw-listed Creotech Instruments will start shipping a Common-Criteria-certified DV-QKD module in 2026 after the European Commission signed...
- GlobalFoundries And Marvell Expand SiGe Deal For AI Data Center Optics — — GlobalFoundries and Marvell Technology are expanding their multi-year silicon germanium agreement, adding fresh SiGe capacity at GF's Burlington, Verm...
- Xili Optoelectronics Bags RMB 100M Pre-Series A For TFLN Photonic AI Chips — — Hangzhou-based Xili Optoelectronics closes a Pre-Series A round of roughly RMB 100 million led by Futeng Capital to mass-produce thin-film lithium nio...
- Toyota, IVECO Team Up On EU-Backed Hydrogen Fuel Cell Heavy Truck — — Toyota and IVECO Group joined forces on next-generation hydrogen fuel cell heavy trucks under the EU-funded EMPOWER programme, with validation of the...
- FCS To Build UK's Largest Hydrogen HGV Refuelling System For HyHAUL — — British hydrogen engineering firm FCS signed a deal to design and build the UK's largest hydrogen refuelling station for heavy goods vehicles, serving...
- Star Trade Signs 800MW Corporate PPA For Taiwan's Formosa 6 Offshore Wind — — Taiwan's Star Trade signed a corporate power purchase agreement with Synera Renewable Energy Group for the entire 800MW Formosa 6 offshore wind projec...
- HMS Networks Launches Friendly Takeover Bid for Spain's ROBOT S.A. — — Sweden's HMS Networks launched a cash delisting offer for all shares of Barcelona-listed ROBOT S.A. on September 11, adding hotel-focused building aut...
- Ayar Labs Adds $150M To Series E, Pushes Photonic Chiplet Round To $650M — — Ayar Labs extended its Series E to $650M with a fresh $150M cheque, and a $225M secondary lifts the co-packaged-optics startup past $5B as Nvidia, AMD...
- PsiQuantum Locks In $100M CHIPS Act Award For U.S. Photonic Quantum Supply Chain — — PsiQuantum has finalized a $100 million CHIPS and Science Act award with the U.S. Department of Commerce to scale onshore manufacturing of optical swi...
- Quantinuum Locks In $100M CHIPS R&D Award For US Trapped-Ion Manufacturing — — The Department of Commerce finalized a CHIPS Act award of up to $100M to Quantinuum, funding integrated photonics, cryogenic semiconductors and specia...
- GoPro Merges With Starman Optical in $285M AI Infrastructure Pivot — — GoPro will merge with U.S. optical-photonics company Starman Optical in a $285M all-cash deal, wiping out its debt and pivoting the action-camera bran...
- NVIDIA Backs Spain's iPronics In $125M Round To Rewire AI Data Centers With Photonics — — Valencia-based iPronics closes a $125M growth round with NVIDIA on the cap table to push programmable photonic chips into hyperscale AI clusters.
- Xanadu Locks In CAD $195M From Ottawa For Photonic Quantum Manufacturing — — Toronto-based Xanadu Quantum Technologies signed a definitive agreement with the Government of Canada for CAD $195 million through the Strategic Respo...
- Quintessent Raises $40M Series A for Quantum-Dot Comb Lasers in AI Datacenters — — Santa Barbara photonics startup Quintessent closed a $40M Series A led by Cycle Capital and began customer sampling of its single-chip quantum-dot DWD...
- Crypto4A's QASM Becomes First Quantum-Safe HSM Validated To FIPS 140-3 Level 3 — — Ottawa-based Crypto4A said on August 20, 2026 that its patented QASM cryptographic module has become the world's first quantum-safe hardware security...
- TuringQ Files For A-Share IPO In China's Quantum Race — — Shanghai-based photonic quantum computing company TuringQ has filed for an A-share IPO with Guotai Haitong Securities as tutor, aiming to become the f...
- Olix Nets $312M At $3.3B To Ditch HBM With Photonic AI Chips — — London-based Olix raised a $312M Series B at a $3.3B valuation to build photonic-interconnect AI inference chips that bypass HBM, backed by Arm, Hudso...
- Quantum Optics Jena's ELVIS Becomes First QKD System To Pass ISO/IEC 23837 Audit — — Quantum Optics Jena's ELVIS platform passed a three-month TUViT evaluation under ISO/IEC 23837, becoming the first commercial QKD system to survive an...
- Quantinuum To Post First Quarterly Earnings As Public Company On Aug 11 — — Quantinuum will report its first-ever quarterly results as a public company after the bell on August 11, giving investors their initial look at commer...
- Qunnect And Monarch Quantum Team To Shrink Entanglement Hardware To Rack Units — — Qunnect and San Diego's Monarch Quantum announced a partnership on August 10 to combine Qunnect's Carina entanglement platform with Monarch's integrat...