Molex invests in Elenion to ‘accelerate innovation in silicon photonics’
Created April 9, 2018
Technologies and ProductsInvestment in Elenion Technologies further addresses “explosive” market demand for hyperscale bandwidth with silicon photonic-based interconnect solutions.
Molex Ventures has announced a strategic investment and collaboration between the Molex Optical Solutions Group and Elenion Technologies, a semiconductor company driving innovation around silicon photonics technology.
The partners will jointly develop, manufacture and promote silicon photonic-based product solutions. Leveraging CMOS and high-volume manufacturing processes, the companies will collaborate to develop advanced optical interconnect solutions that scale to 400Gbps and beyond.
“High-speed silicon photonic-based technologies represent a cost-disruptive solution to bandwidth scalability needs in hyperscale data centers in the high-growth optoelectronics sector, ” said Lily Yeung, vice president, Molex Ventures.
‘Advanced silicon photonics’
“This investment and collaboration combines Elenion’s key strength in advanced silicon photonics core technology, with Molex core capabilities in complex product integration, efficient manufacturing, and global sales and marketing, and provides the most advanced and compelling product solutions to our customers.”
Larry Schwerin, CEO, Elenion Technologies, commented,“Collaborating with Molex will significantly accelerate production and deployments of our silicon photonic technology serving global customers that demand an ever-increasing pace of innovation for high-speed optical communication solutions.
“We now have a great alliance to fulfill our vision to be an industry leader in driving silicon photonics for a broad range of applications in high bandwidth data networks.”
For further information about Molex Ventures and Molex OSG strategic initiatives, visit www.molex-ventures.com
