GlobalFoundries, Corning collaborate for detachable fiber connector solutions

GlobalFoundries (GFS) announced a collaborative effort with Corning Incorporated (GLW) to develop detachable fiber connector solutions for GF’s silicon photonics platform. Corning’s GlassBridge solution, a glass-waveguide based edge-coupler compatible with the platform’s v-grooves, is designed to meet the growing demands of AI datacenters for high bandwidth and power-efficient optical connectivity. Other coupling mechanisms are also being developed, including a vertically-coupled detachable fiber-to-PIC solution-demonstrating GlobalFoundries and Corning’s combined ability to produce multiple forms of co-packaged PIC-to-fiber connectivity. The collaboration leverages Corning’s world-leading innovation in glass, optical fiber and connectivity technologies. This includes a broad portfolio of special glass compositions, glass wafer, IOX, and laser processing, and Fiber Array Units, leveraging fibers with ultra-precise core alignments minimizing insertion loss for the most demanding data center and high-performance computing applications. Built on GF’s comprehensive silicon photonics platform that supports co-packaged optics solutions for scale-out and scale-up networks, this collaboration will pair Corning’s well established supply chain and leadership in optical interconnect technologies with GF’s high volume manufacturing capabilities and leadership in silicon photonics.