GlobalFoundries Announces Next-Gen Silicon Photonics Solutions

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www.hpcwire.com, Mar. 07, 2022 – 

MALTA, N.Y., March 7, 2022 – GlobalFoundries Inc today announced it is collaborating with industry leaders including Broadcom, Cisco Systems, Inc, Marvell and NVIDIA, along with breakthrough photonic leaders including Ayar Labs, Lightmatter, PsiQuantum, Ranovus and Xanadu, to deliver innovative, unique, feature-rich solutions to solve some of the biggest challenges facing data centers today.

The more than 42 billion connected IoT devices generating ~177 ZB of data annually1 combined with the rise of power consumption in data centers, is driving the need for innovative solutions to move and compute data faster and more energy efficiently. These key market trends and implications have catalyzed GF's focus on groundbreaking semiconductor solutions that harvest the potential of photons, instead of electrons to move data and position GF to continue to be the manufacturing leader in the optical networking module market that is projected to grow at a CAGR of 26% between 2021 and 2026, reaching about USD 4 billion by 2026.2

Today GF is proud to announce GF Fotonix, its next generation, widely disruptive silicon photonics platform. GF has active design wins with major customers, significant market share today and expects its growth in this segment to outpace the market.

GF also announced it is partnering with industry leader Cisco Systems, Inc., on a custom silicon photonics solution for DCN and DCI applications, including an interdependent Process Design Kit (PDK) in close collaboration with our GF manufacturing services team.

Customers and Partner Support for GF Silicon Photonics Solutions

"We're working closely with GlobalFoundries to design high-bandwidth, low-power optical interconnects for some of our leading-edge data center products. NVIDIA interconnect solutions manufactured with the monolithic GF Fotonix platform will boost high performance computing and AI applications, enabling breakthrough advances," said Edward Lee, vice president of Mixed-Signal Design, NVIDIA.

"As one of our trusted semiconductor partners across a broad range of technologies and process nodes, we are happy to see Global Foundries extend their investments for enabling a photonics ecosystem across components and integrated solutions," said Liming Tsau, vice president of Foundry Engineering, Broadcom Inc.

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