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Corning Is Becoming An Optics Company Again

Nov 3, 2026

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5 min read

Corning Is Becoming An Optics Company Again

Optical communications is now 47 per cent of Corning's core sales and 60 per cent of its segment profit, and four customers are co-funding the factories.

Domantas Klumbys
Domantas Klumbys

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TTM Buys The Lenses, Not The Power Meters

Oct 26, 2026

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5 min read

TTM Buys The Lenses, Not The Power Meters

A $650 million deal cuts a fifty-year-old Israeli optics house in two, and the half that stays behind keeps the name.

Domantas Klumbys
Domantas Klumbys

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Intel And AMD Back The Same Optical Switch

Oct 19, 2026

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5 min read

Intel And AMD Back The Same Optical Switch

Two companies that agree on almost nothing in the data centre have put money into the same Oxford photonics startup, which tells you what they think is about to break.

Domantas Klumbys
Domantas Klumbys

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Xcimer Banks Another $30.5 Million

Oct 15, 2026

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4 min read

Xcimer Banks Another $30.5 Million

A rounding error against the cost of a power plant, and a serious sum for a laser company.

Domantas Klumbys
Domantas Klumbys

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Artemis Puts Design, Coating And Metrology Under One Roof

Oct 5, 2026

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5 min read

Artemis Puts Design, Coating And Metrology Under One Roof

Optikos has absorbed Omega Optical, and the argument for the deal is that the handoffs between a designer, a coating house and a test lab are what cost the customer time.

Domantas Klumbys
Domantas Klumbys

Business

Lightera Nearly Triples Its Ocean Fibre

Oct 1, 2026

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5 min read

Lightera Nearly Triples Its Ocean Fibre

The constraint on transoceanic capacity is not cable ships or landing permits. It is how much submarine-grade fibre the world can draw.

Domantas Klumbys
Domantas Klumbys

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NVIDIA Investing Billions Into Photonics

Jul 17, 2026

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4 min read

NVIDIA Investing Billions Into Photonics

Photonics is considered to be a more efficient way to transfer data than the current standard process of using more costly electricity running on copper, which is thought to be a major blocker to the rollout of AI.

Domantas Klumbys
Domantas Klumbys

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Optical Interconnects in AI Data Centers

Jul 16, 2026

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3 min read

Optical Interconnects in AI Data Centers

Pluggable transceivers have served the industry for two decades. The AI compute wave is about to retire them. Here is the physics, the business case, and what engineers on the buying side actually need to know.

Domantas Klumbys
Domantas Klumbys

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