CCRAFT Raises $7.8 Million to Expand Swiss Photonic Chip Foundry
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A $7.8M raise to expand an independent TFLN photonic chip foundry in Switzerland is another move to de-bottleneck optics for AI and quantum. Hardware teams should start mapping which of their future bandwidth and latency assumptions depend on photonics — and which foundries can actually deliver it at scale.
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