Pure play foundry GlobalFoundries Inc. (GF) has introduced a new silicon photonics manufacturing process designed for data center solutions. GF is collaborating with semiconductor players Broadcom, Cisco Systems, Marvell and Nvidia as well as photonic companies Ayar Labs, Lightmatter, PsiQuantum, Ranovus and Xanadu for the photonics platform.

Concurrent with the introduction of its GF Fotonix silicon photonics platform, GlobalFoundries announced several high-profile collaborations with the potential to significantly boost the platform’s market reach. The platform enables the combination of 300-mm photonics features and 300-GHz-class RF-CMOS on a silicon wafer at scale.

MALTA, N.Y., March 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- GlobalFoundries Inc (Nasdaq: GFS) (GF) today announced it is collaborating with industry leaders including Broadcom, Cisco Systems, Inc, Marvell and NVIDIA, along with breakthrough photonic leaders including Ayar Labs, Lightmatter, PsiQuantum, Ranovus and Xanadu, to deliver innovative, unique, feature-rich solutions to solve some of the biggest challenges facing data centers today.

In March 2022, GlobalFoundries announced GF Fotonix TM a new platform that monolithically integrates high-performance RF, digital CMOS and silicon photonics (SiPH) circuits on the same chip, while leveraging the scale, efficiencies and tight process controls of 300 millimeter silicon manufacturing.