Coherent Expands InP Fab with $50M CHIPS Grant, AI's Connectivity Bottleneck Drives Photonics Arms Race
Coherent receives $50M CHIPS Act grant to expand its 6-inch InP fab in Texas, quadrupling capacity. NVIDIA's $2B strategic investment and CEO Jensen Huang's presence signal a shift from GPU compute scaling to optical interconnect as the new AI infrastructure bottleneck.