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NewPhotonics

Petah Tikva, Central District, Israel · newphotonics.com

NewPhotonics supplies laser-integrated optical engine PICs for AI interconnect, including 800G and 1.6T solutions for high-bandwidth data-center networking.

AI Core · watchlist · score 51

Positioning

NewPhotonics appears in this registry through exactly one relationship, but it is consequential: it is the customer behind the first-ever volume production orders on Tower Semiconductor's PH18DA indium phosphide-on-silicon photonic platform, announced by OpenLight on 2026-03-05, based on NewPhotonics 800G and 1.6T laser-integrated PIC solutions. That single fact places it at the front of the heterogeneous-integration transition, because it is the first company to commit volume money to a platform that integrates lasers, electro-absorption modulators and semiconductor optical amplifiers monolithically. Everything else is missing: country, headquarters, ownership, funding, revenue, headcount and any other customer or product were not established, and it did not issue its own release on the milestone, which OpenLight announced on its behalf. That asymmetry is itself informative about relative scale. Loaded as a placeholder tied to the OpenLight and Tower rows. Revisit trigger: a NewPhotonics-issued announcement, a funding round, or a second named platform relationship.

Latest signals

  • NewPhotonics and Tower Semiconductor begin high-volume shipments of laser-integrated serviceable optical engine PICs for AI interconnectsemiconductor-today.com
  • OpenLight received its first volume-production orders for Tower Semiconductor’s PH18DA InP-on-silicon photonic platform.semiconductor-today.com

2 signals name NewPhotonics. Members see all of them, filtered by topic, source and date.

Facts, with sources

  • unknownRevenue band · www.semiconductor-today.com — 2026-09-18
  • High-volume shipments of laser-integrated serviceable optical engine PICs for AI interconnectProduct launch · www.semiconductor-today.com — 2026-09-18
  • First-ever volume production orders for NewPhotonics 800G and 1.6T laser-integrated PIC solutions on the PH18DA InP-on-silicon photonic platformDeployment · openlightphotonics.com

3 facts on file. Members see all of them with the source link.

Scores, AI Core (of 10)

Deployment4
Production2
Commercials2
Progress6
Technology8
Positioning6
Firepower2
Leverage8

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

Questions this page answers

What does NewPhotonics do?

NewPhotonics supplies laser-integrated optical engine PICs for AI interconnect, including 800G and 1.6T solutions for high-bandwidth data-center networking. NewPhotonics appears in this registry through exactly one relationship, but it is consequential: it is the customer behind the first-ever volume production orders on Tower Semiconductor's PH18DA indium phosphide-on-silicon photonic platform, announced by OpenLight on 2026-03-05, based on NewPhotonics 800G and 1.6T laser-integrated PIC solutions. That single fact places it at the front of the heter

Where does NewPhotonics rank in ai core?

NewPhotonics is on the AI Core watchlist list of Frontier Tech Intelligence with a score of 51 out of 100, below the Top 100.

Where is NewPhotonics based and when was it founded?

NewPhotonics is based in Petah Tikva, Central District, Israel.

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