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10 records Generated from this page's data. Click a name to open its panel on the Chips and hardware page. Records resting on one source are tagged "one source".| Record | What it is | Place | Links | Confidence |
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| Altro PhotonicsCompanies | Start-up building an integrated photonic chip platform to cut power and cost in AI data centres; ChipStart UK cohort 4. | siliconcatalyst.uk/portfolio-companies · siliconcatalyst.uk/launches-4th-cohort-with-gove | one source | |
| CamGraPhICCompanies | Cambridge spin-out making graphene photonic transceivers for AI interconnects. | Cambridge | gov.uk/government/publications/semiconductor-sec | one source |
| Effect Photonics UKCompanies | Coherent optical transceiver and Indium Phosphide PIC packaging/manufacturing facility in Devon. | Brixham, Devon | — | one source |
| Hartley UltrafastCompanies | Start-up building silicon-photonics and electronic coprocessors for very fast AI inference; ChipStart UK cohort 2. | siliconcatalyst.uk/portfolio-companies | one source | |
| Light Trace PhotonicsCompanies | Manufactures turnkey Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) rapid prototyping and chip-testing platforms (LightPort) to accelerate optical compute and quantum photonics design. | Bristol | — | one source |
| Lumentum UKCompanies | Historic Plessey Caswell III-V semiconductor wafer fab producing high-speed Indium Phosphide electro-absorption modulated lasers (EMLs) and coherent modulators that power 800G/1.6T optical transceivers in Nvidia and hyperscale AI clusters. | Caswell, Northamptonshire | — | one source |
| QascadeCompanies | Start-up developing photonic communication (interconnect) hardware for AI, datacom and hybrid quantum computing; ChipStart UK cohort 4. | siliconcatalyst.uk/portfolio-companies · siliconcatalyst.uk/launches-4th-cohort-with-gove | one source | |
| Rayd TechnologiesCompanies | Start-up building brain-inspired photonic computing hardware for machine vision and AI at the edge; ChipStart UK cohort 3. | siliconcatalyst.uk/portfolio-companies | one source | |
| Sivers PhotonicsCompanies | III-V Indium Phosphide (InP) laser foundry fabricating custom DFB laser arrays for Silicon Photonics (SiPh) and Co-Packaged Optics (CPO) in AI data centres (CW-WDM MSA member). | Glasgow | — | one source |
| Wave PhotonicsCompanies | Computational photonics EDA and PDK company enabling fabless silicon photonics design across multiple foundries (£4.5M seed led by UKI2S & Lundbeckfonden). | Cambridge | — | one source |