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New investment from the European Commission is helping innovators exploit the unique properties of light technologies to add smart features and improve the performance of their products through a proven ‘one-stop-shop’ photonics innovation factory. Building on successes to date, a…

Collaborative platform combines InP chiplets with SOI technology via Micro-Transfer-Printing for high-speed, energy-efficient optical transceivers Tessenderlo, Belgium; Eindhoven & Enschede, The Netherlands – March 26, 2025 X-FAB Silicon Foundries SE, the leading analog/mixed-signal and specialty foundry, SMART Photonics, the leading…

X-FAB Silicon Foundries SE, the leading analog/mixed-signal and specialty foundry, and SMART Photonics, the leading Indium Phosphide (InP) integrated photonics foundry, have announced a strategic collaboration. This collaboration intends to integrate X-FAB’s silicon photonics platform with SMART Photonics’ InP chiplets…

We are very pleased and proud to announce that SMART Photonics has received the ISO 9001 certification! This step forward marks a very important milestone in our journey to become the leading Tier 1 foundry in integrated photonics. This certification…

10 CEOs/founders of leading Dutch scale-ups are sounding the alarm. The Netherlands lacks the innovation and business climate in which scale-ups have the opportunity to be successful. We, as united scale-up CEOs, call on the government, investors, and companies to…

SMART Photonics expands its integration platform portfolio, by adding the new high speed >50GHz modulator, opening the route to 96 GBaud transmission. By combining our existing, large portfolio of components with this modulator, our high gain SOA and narrow linewidth…

Transition from 3 to 4 inch doubles the production capacity, accelerating the commercial roll out SMART Photonics is taking an important step in becoming the leading foundry for next generation chips. The Dutch foundry has significantly scaled up its production…

Dutch current affairs television program Nieuwsuur aired an interesting segment on the importance of photonics in the Netherlands. They interviewed ao LioniX, Brilliance, Universities of Technology Eindhoven and Twente and SMART Photonics CEO Johan Feenstra. From the video: Eindhoven is…

We are proud to present you the very first photonics game! Experience our clean room, test your skills and knowledge and finalize the final challenge. Play as much as you like!   Do you like to…

CEOs from eight of Europe’s largest integrated photonics companies have presented Thomas Skordas, Deputy Director-General, DG Connect, and Lucilla Sioli, Director for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Industry, DG Connect and Werner Steinhoegl, Head of Sector, Unit for Microelectronics & Photonics for the European…

We are very pleased to announce that imec and SMART Photonics signed a Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) to underpin their intention to work together in the field of hybrid integration of InP on SiN/SiPh. This collaborative work will include topics…