Tower Semiconductor Collaborates with Global Optical Module Leader

Silicon Photonics

Recently, Tower Semiconductor, a leading provider of high-value analog semiconductor solutions, announced its partnership with global high-speed optical transceiver manufacturers to enhance cooperation based on Tower’s latest SiPho platform. Currently, the products have entered mass production and are climbing towards high volume production. Silicon photonics technology significantly reduces the number of external optical devices, reducing the number of lasers required for each optical module by half, greatly simplifying the design of optical modules for AI and data center applications, optimizing costs and supply chain efficiency.
With the increasing demand for high-speed optical connectivity in artificial intelligence (AI) driven data centers, customers are deepening their long-term cooperation with Tower Semiconductor to provide cost-effective and high-performance solutions to meet the current demand for 100Gbps (400G/800G), 200Gbps (1.6T) per channel, and future 400Gbps (3.2T) per channel optical modules. By adopting Tower Semiconductor’s new SiPho platform, this solution significantly enhances the scalability, performance, and cost-effectiveness of AI driven data centers and cloud infrastructure.

Optical module manufacturers believe that in order to maintain their leading position in the high-speed optical module market, cooperation with Tower is a key choice to maintain competitiveness. The company can continue to explore innovative SiPho solutions for AI and data center applications, leveraging Tower Semiconductor’s new SiPho platform to provide excellent performance, cost advantages, and supply chain stability for hyperscalers customers. The collaboration between optical module manufacturers and Tower Semiconductor will continue to provide industry-leading products.
The next-generation SiPho platform provides industry-leading edge coupling efficiency and higher performance modulators. These innovations reduce the number of external lasers required for each optical module by half. This platform not only reduces costs and design complexity, but also enhances system reliability and supply chain robustness.
Tower Semiconductor CEO Russell Ellwanger said, “We are honored to deepen our partnership with our customers, which not only demonstrates the strength of our partnership, but also demonstrates our commitment to providing innovative and customized SiPho solutions. We continue to invest in research and development of SiPho technology and capacity expansion, further consolidating our industry leadership position and helping our customers lead the way in launching high-performance solutions to meet the evolving needs of the artificial intelligence (AI) and data center markets.”