AMD reportedly establishes $280 million silicon photonics hub in Taiwan — new R&D center could accelerate company’s co-packaged optics roadmap

According to a new report, AMD has made the decision to establish two new R&D centers in Taiwan, focusing on silicon photonics, heterogeneous integration, and AI-related technologies, reports the Liberty Times. Both heterogeneous integration of system-in-packages (SiPs) and silicon photonics with co-packaged optics (CPO) are crucial technologies for current and next-generation AI and HPC components, as performance scaling via traditional methods is too slow to meet market requirements.

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