Lightmatter leads 19-company push to standardize photonics

Lightmatter launched an industry initiative with 19 companies to standardize infrastructure for silicon-photonics-ready data centers, accompanied by a 300-page whitepaper.

Why it matters: Silicon photonics is increasingly seen as necessary to keep scaling AI data-center interconnects as clusters grow, and it has also become a US-China chip-policy flashpoint. An industry-wide standardization push suggests the technology is moving from research curiosity toward mainstream infrastructure, which could accelerate adoption timelines.