Signal · Technology & Procurement Innovation
OpenLight and Tower expand PH18DA photonics ecosystem to accelerate photonic IC development
What the source reported
Source-reportedPhotonic application-specific integrated circuit (PASIC) chip designer and manufacturer OpenLight of Goleta, Santa Barbara, CA, USA (which launched as an independent company in 2022, introducing the first open silicon photonics platform with heterogeneously integrated III-V lasers, modulators, amplifiers and detectors) and specialty analog foundry Tower Semiconductor Ltd of Migdal Haemek, Israel have announced the availability of OpenLight’s photonic process design kit (PDK) for Tower’s PH18DA indium phosphide (InP)-on-silicon photonics platform in Cadence’s electronic design automation (EDA) tools...
- Publication
- Semiconductor Today · Trade Publication
- Published
- 12th August 2026
- Original report
- semiconductor-today.com
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- Technology & Procurement Innovation
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- Global
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- 12th August 2026 · 18:51
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Initial Significance Moderate (27.0/100). Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact (18.0/30 points). Limiting factor: Impact-Scale Specificity (0.0/10 points). Initial Confidence Very Low (13.5/100, data sufficiency: Insufficient). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (8.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Specificity (0.0/20 points).
- Strongest contributor
- Procurement Impact
- Limiting factor
- Impact-Scale Specificity