{"id":155686,"date":"2023-01-18T00:22:52","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T06:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/driving-the-era-of-silicon-photonics-with-integrated-lasers"},"modified":"2023-01-18T00:22:52","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T06:22:52","slug":"driving-the-era-of-silicon-photonics-with-integrated-lasers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/driving-the-era-of-silicon-photonics-with-integrated-lasers","title":{"rendered":"Driving the era of silicon photonics with integrated lasers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/driving-the-era-of-silicon-photonics-with-integrated-lasers2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During the past several decades, silicon has undeniably been the crown jewel of the semiconductor industry\u2019s transformation. But with the plateauing of Moore\u2019s Law, the increasing complexity of circuits, and the explosive growth of data-intensive applications, companies need even more innovative ways to compute, store, and move data faster. As a result, scale, speed, and power have become underlying forces to handle both advanced intelligence and computing needs.<\/p>\n<p>Silicon photonics has already earned a stronghold for its impressive performance, power efficiency, and reliability compared to conventional electronic integrated circuits. Overall speed requirements have become fast enough, benefiting the technology\u2019s strengths to transfer data efficiently over ever-shortening distances. Meanwhile, artificial intelligence (AI) is pushing computing to a point where electronic components need to communicate over distances to combine and integrate multiple XPUs (application-specific processing units).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the past several decades, silicon has undeniably been the crown jewel of the semiconductor industry\u2019s transformation. But with the plateauing of Moore\u2019s Law, the increasing complexity of circuits, and the explosive growth of data-intensive applications, companies need even more innovative ways to compute, store, and move data faster. As a result, scale, speed, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}