Lightium

Schlieren, Zurich, Switzerland · lightium.com

Lightium operates a production-grade thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) photonic integrated-circuit foundry and provides PIC design services. It is scaling industrial TFLN chip manufacturing and launched foundry services.

AI Core · prospect · score 33

Positioning

Lightium AG is a Swiss photonic foundry and PIC design-services company built around a proprietary thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) platform, offering 200 mm wafer manufacturing, PDKs, prototyping, and a path toward volume production for datacom, telecom, AI, quantum, and space applications. Its disclosed ecosystem includes packaging partner PHIX, testing partners MPI Corporation and Axiomatic_AI, and participation in the European-Canadian INGENIOUS consortium; customers are not publicly named.

Latest signals

  • INGENIOUS formed a cross-border consortium spanning the photonic integrated-circuit value chain.Lightium
  • Lightium is leading INGENIOUS platform development with a €3.1 million project budget.Lightium
  • Hyperlight and Lightium are producing TFLN wafers at scale.EE Times
  • Lightium, MPI Corporation, and Axiomatic_AI entered an MoU to develop an AI-driven autonomous test platform for photonic integrated circuits.Lightium
  • Lightium offers production-grade TFLN photonic integrated-circuit foundry and design services.Lightium

11 signals name Lightium. Members see all of them, filtered by topic, source and date.

Facts, with sources

  • No controlling owner disclosed; founder-led private company.Ownership change · Lightium
  • INGENIOUS platform development project budgetFunding round · Lightium
  • INGENIOUS formed a cross-border consortium spanning the photonic integrated-circuit value chain.Partnership · Lightium
  • MoU with MPI Corporation and Axiomatic_AI to develop an AI-driven autonomous test platform for photonic integrated circuits.Partnership · Lightium

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Scores, AI Core (of 10)

Deployment2
Production2
Commercials2
Progress2
Technology4
Positioning6
Firepower4
Leverage2

Traction: deployment, production, commercials, progress. Capability: technology, positioning, firepower, leverage.

Questions this page answers

What does Lightium do?

Lightium operates a production-grade thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) photonic integrated-circuit foundry and provides PIC design services. It is scaling industrial TFLN chip manufacturing and launched foundry services. Lightium AG is a Swiss photonic foundry and PIC design-services company built around a proprietary thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) platform, offering 200 mm wafer manufacturing, PDKs, prototyping, and a path toward volume production for datacom, telecom, AI, quantum, and space applications. Its disclosed ecosystem includes packaging partner PHIX, testing partners MPI Corporation and Axiomatic_AI,

Where does Lightium rank in ai core?

Lightium is on the AI Core prospect list of Frontier Tech Intelligence with a score of 33 out of 100, below the Top 100.

Where is Lightium based and when was it founded?

Lightium is based in Schlieren, Zurich, Switzerland.

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