{"city":"Eindhoven","name":"Smart Photonics","slug":"smart-photonics","facts":[{"date":"2026-09-14","type":"ownership_change","value":"Undisclosed private owners","source":"Smart Photonics"},{"date":"2026-09-14","type":"product_launch","value":"High-speed modulator exceeding 50 GHz added to the integrated-photonics platform portfolio","source":"Smart Photonics"},{"date":"2026-09-14","type":"product_launch","value":"High-speed modulator added to the integration-photonics platform portfolio","source":"Smart Photonics"},{"date":"2025-06-24","type":"total_funding","value":"EUR 153000000","source":"semiconductor-today.com"},{"date":"2024-07-10","type":"total_funding","value":"Raised over five years for photonic chip companies","source":"semiconductor-today.com"},{"date":"2023-11-16","type":"partnership","value":"MoU for hybrid InP integration on SiN/SiPh with imec","source":"semiconductor-today.com"}],"peers":[],"stage":null,"state":"North Brabant","aliases":[],"country":"Netherlands","domains":[{"why":"Smart Photonics operates an integrated-photonics foundry and provides indium phosphide photonic integrated-circuit platforms, including hybrid integration with SiN and silicon photonics.","list":null,"rank":null,"tier":"watchlist","layer":null,"total":60,"domain":"AI Core","scores":{"leverage":6,"position":6,"progress":8,"firepower":6,"commercial":1,"deployment":6,"production":6,"technology":6},"edition":null,"segment":null}],"founded":null,"signals":[{"date":"2026-09-14","header":"SMART Photonics offers a 110+ GHz indium phosphide Mach-Zehnder modulator for high-speed optical transmission.","outlet":"Smart Photonics"},{"date":"2026-09-14","header":"SMART Photonics added a high-speed modulator exceeding 50 GHz to its integrated-photonics platform portfolio.","outlet":"Smart Photonics"},{"date":"2026-09-14","header":"SMART Photonics achieved ISO/IEC 27001 certification.","outlet":"Smart Photonics"},{"date":"2026-03-13","header":"TNO, TU/e, PhotonDelta, SMART Photonics, and High Tech Campus Eindhoven formed a public-private partnership for the photonic chip factory.","outlet":"semiconductor-today.com"},{"date":"2025-06-24","header":"The Dutch InP photonic-chip pilot line has a total investment of €153 million.","outlet":"semiconductor-today.com"},{"date":"2024-07-10","header":"PhotonDelta raised more than $500 million over five years for photonic chip companies.","outlet":"semiconductor-today.com"}],"website":"smartphotonics.nl","category":"AI Infra · Fabrication, memory & packaging","categories":[{"name":"Photonic foundry & PIC platforms","domain":"AI Core","parent":"AI Infra · Fabrication, memory & packaging"}],"last_round":null,"updated_at":"2026-09-22T22:25:00.724+00:00","facts_total":10,"positioning":"SMART Photonics is an independent Dutch pure-play InP photonic semiconductor foundry that provides process-design kits, integrated photonic building blocks, and 4-inch high-volume manufacturing for optical communications, AI data-center interconnects, sensing, LiDAR, healthcare, and quantum applications. Its ecosystem includes collaborations with X-FAB Silicon Foundries, GX Group, TNO, High Tech Campus Eindhoven, and European public-private photonics programs, while customers retain ownership of their chip IP.","sub_category":"Photonic foundry & PIC platforms","signals_total":8,"url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/smart-photonics","title":"Smart Photonics · ai core, Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands · scores, facts and signals · Frontier Tech Intelligence","description":"Smart Photonics operates an integrated-photonics foundry and provides indium phosphide photonic integrated-circuit platforms, including hybrid integration with SiN and silicon photonics. AI Core watchlist (score 60) 8 signals and 10 facts with sources.","publisher":"Frontier Tech Intelligence (Future Frontiers, a trade name of Essential Cognition Inc.)","note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}