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Keiron Printing Technologies, a developer of laser-induced forward transfer (LiFT) precision solder paste printing, has closed a €20.7 million ($23.5M) series A round to commercialize a process that r...
IBM signed an agreement to acquire HRL Laboratories (HRL), a flagship research and development institution jointly owned by Boeing and General Motors. Following the acquisition, Boeing and GM will con...
LightPath Technologies is selling its subsidiary, LightPath Optical Instrumentation, including its manufacturing facility and its operations in China, for $4.5 million. The divesture is part of a tran...
Gooch and Housego (G&H) has accepted a roughly $462 million buyout from U.S. private equity firm, Arlington Capital. G&H said that the arrangement will help accelerate its strategy to become a more cu...
Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) can travel more deeply through tissue than purely optical imaging techniques. This makes PAT useful for detecting changes in blood vessel growth, oxygen levels, and tiss...
Hawthorn Photonics appointed Walter Bevers vice president of sales. Bevers will lead the group's worldwide sales organization, overseeing commercial activity across Hawthorn Photonics' three specialis...
Funded with €50 million ($57 million), Q-PLANET (Quantum Pilot Line for production of Advanced chips for Neutral atom European Technologies) is launching as a European pilot line for the industrializa...
Silicon photonics stands as a promising solution to overcoming the bandwidth and latency issues plaguing AI and related computing infrastructure. One of its main strengths has been its compatibility w...
Researchers at Seoul National University developed a way to freely control the speed and shape of optical signals using a programmable photonic integrated circuit. They used the new approach to design...
The European Commission has awarded funding to ELIgnite, a newly launched Horizon Europe project coordinated by the Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC (ELI). Bringing together leading research infrastr...
The sensory nerve fibers in patients with chronic pain may undergo structural and functional changes that cause the pain to persist. In musculoskeletal disorders like temporomandibular joint (TMJ) dis...
IPG Photonics has entered into a binding offer to acquire Lumibird Medical for an enterprise value of €300 million ($343M), which may be increased by an earn-out of up to €50 million based on future p...
Tesla is embedding distributed fiber sensing and machine vision throughout its Gigafactory lines as part of an AI-first manufacturing strategy Musk calls TeraFab.
TeraFab isn't just a building — it's a manufacturing philosophy. Musk wants every surface of every factory wired with fiber sensors and AI vision systems, pushing optical component demand to new level...
Samsung's Taylor, TX fab expansion is part of a broader US semiconductor manufacturing wave that will require new fiber routes connecting fabs to power grids, research centers, and logistics hubs.