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Market Trends
Passage L20 CPX: Lightmatter’s bidirectional optical engine
PR Newswire / Lightmatter USA Overview Lightmatter has introduced the Passage L20 CPX, the industry's first bidirectional (BiDi) optical link technology designed for AI infrastructure, simultaneously joining the Open CPX Multi-Source Agr... -
New Technology
Nokia: 800ZR/ZR+ 3nm DSP pluggable optics for subsea networks
Nokia (Optical network blogs) Finland Overview Nokia reports that coherent pluggable optics, traditionally used in terrestrial networks, are now extending their applicability to subsea networks. This shift is driven by advancements in 80... -
New Technology
SiCN and SiN deposition: High-speed PIC transmission explained
EurekAlert! United States Overview Significant advancements in silicon carbon nitride (SiCN) and silicon nitride (SiN) deposition and manipulation techniques have dramatically improved the fabrication and functionality of photonic integr... -
New Technology
Coherent: 3.2T and 6.4T optical solutions for AI at ECOC 2026
Coherent (via Stock Titan) USA Overview Coherent will showcase advanced optical solutions at ECOC 2026 to dramatically scale AI infrastructure, including a compact 3.2T pluggable architecture with dual 1.6T optical paths in an OSFP-size ... -
Market Trends
GlobalFoundries & Marvell: 200Gbps silicon photonics specs
TechSpot USA Overview GlobalFoundries and Marvell Technology have significantly expanded their multi-year silicon photonics partnership to overcome the bandwidth and power efficiency limitations of copper wiring in data centers. This all... -
New Technology
ML Interatomic Potentials: DocShare 2026 accuracy explained
DocShare Unknown Overview A study published on DocShare identified a consistent 'systematic softening' in the potential energy surfaces (PES) of universal machine-learned interatomic potentials (uMLIPs) such as M3GNet, CHGNet, and MACE-M... -
New Technology
CoFe2O4: AI foundation model vs DFT site preference specs
Ouro Unknown Overview Recent analysis reveals that AI foundation models for materials science, such as CHGNet and MACE-MP-0, exhibit limitations in accurately predicting d-electron site preferences in spinel structures. Specifically, for... -
New Technology
UCB-Bandit & LLM: Bayesian optimization for materials design 2026
arXiv International Overview A new paper reformulates acquisition function selection in constrained multi-objective Bayesian optimization (CMOBO) for materials design as an adaptive policy selection problem. Two novel controllers, UCB-Ba... -
New Technology
Co-Based Superalloys: ML-driven 15% solvus temperature boost 2026
arXiv Unknown Overview This study introduces a physics-guided machine learning framework for the inverse design of Co-based superalloys, successfully identifying new alloy compositions that enhance the γ' solvus temperature by up to 15% ... -
New Technology
UFO-MGen explained: Flow-based generative model for crystals 2026
arXiv Unknown Overview This arXiv study introduces UFO-MGen, a flow-based universal generative model that learns topological features of Wyckoff representations, achieving over 90% success rate in crystal generation. UFO-MGen demonstrate...