{"id":226302,"date":"2025-12-02T08:05:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T14:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/news-silicon-photonics-momentum-builds-samsung-ramps-rd-in-singapore-umc-teams-with-imec"},"modified":"2025-12-02T08:05:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T14:05:32","slug":"news-silicon-photonics-momentum-builds-samsung-ramps-rd-in-singapore-umc-teams-with-imec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/news-silicon-photonics-momentum-builds-samsung-ramps-rd-in-singapore-umc-teams-with-imec","title":{"rendered":"[News] Silicon Photonics Momentum Builds: Samsung Ramps R&amp;D in Singapore, UMC Teams With IMEC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/news-silicon-photonics-momentum-builds-samsung-ramps-rd-in-singapore-umc-teams-with-imec.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With AI compute demands soaring, silicon photonics is emerging as a next-generation technology poised to reshape the landscape. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hankyung.com\/article\/2025113044441\">Hankyung<\/a>, sources say that Samsung Electronics\u2019 Device Solutions (DS) Division has designated the technology as a future strategic priority and begun recruiting experts for its Singapore-based R&amp;D center, led by Vice President King-Jien Chui, a former TSMC executive. The report highlights that Samsung is expanding its team in Singapore and working with Broadcom to move the technology toward commercialization.<\/p>\n<p>As the report indicates, citing industry sources, Samsung\u2019s 2027 target for CPO (Co-Packaged Optics) commercialization suggests that its real contest with TSMC will begin at that point. By 2030\u2014when silicon photonics is expected to be applied at the individual-chip level\u2014the technology will likely become the central battleground of the foundry market. Although TSMC currently leads, Samsung is gearing up, viewing the technology as a key to attracting major foundry clients, the report adds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With AI compute demands soaring, silicon photonics is emerging as a next-generation technology poised to reshape the landscape. According to Hankyung, sources say that Samsung Electronics\u2019 Device Solutions (DS) Division has designated the technology as a future strategic priority and begun recruiting experts for its Singapore-based R&amp;D center, led by Vice President King-Jien Chui, a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226302","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}