Tower Semiconductor announced it is scaling AI infrastructure deployments with high-performance silicon photonics for 1.6T data center optical modules designed for NVIDIA networking protocols, enabling up to double the data rate of prior solutions for AI workloads. The company’s silicon photonics and SiGe platforms are designed to support next-generation data center architectures and faster optical connectivity. “Tower Semiconductor is proud to deliver advanced, high-speed technologies that support demanding data center and AI requirements,” said Russell Ellwanger, CEO of Tower Semiconductor. “We continue to invest significantly across our SiGe and silicon photonics platforms to support the ecosystem with industry-leading performance, scalability, and manufacturability, enabling customers to advance next-generation data center architectures.”
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The initiative strengthens collaboration with NVIDIA to enable high-speed, scalable networking needed to interconnect AI environments. “The exponential growth of AI is driving the need for a new class of high-speed, scalable networking to connect AI infrastructure,” said Gilad Shainer, Senior Vice President, Networking, NVIDIA. “NVIDIA is collaborating with Tower Semiconductor to advance the ecosystem, enabling more efficient AI infrastructure through next-generation silicon photonics and accelerating AI applications at scale.”