By Atomica
Atomica’s AI Photonic Integration Platform addresses a critical bottleneck in AI hardware: integrating optics, electronics, memory, thermal management, and packaging into one manufacturable system. The platform gives customers a configurable microfabrication pathway spanning interposers and vias, bonding, optical alignment, and wafer-level packaging. Atomica, a U.S.-based microfabrication foundry, today announced the launch of its AI Photonic Integration Platform, a new microfabrication platform for customers developing photonic and heterogeneous AI hardware that integrates optics, electronics, memory, thermal structures, and package-level interfaces into compact, manufacturable systems. Atomica’s AI Photonic Integration Platform brings together microfabrication technologies for silicon and glass interposers, through-silicon and through-glass vias, redistribution layers, wafer-level packaging, bonding, cavities, optical alignment structures, and customer-specific process layers. The platform is designed to support applications including AI accelerators, high-bandwidth memory integration, chiplet packages, data-center switches, optical I/O modules, co-packaged and near-packaged optics, photonic integrated circuit packaging, optical engines, external laser-source packages, advanced sensors, and physical-AI hardware. At the center of the platform is heterogeneous integration. Photonic, electronic, memory, and thermal components may be fabricated on different substrates, use different materials, and have different alignment, stress, thermal, and reliability requirements. The challenge is bringing those elements together without compromising electrical performance, optical performance, or manufacturability. Rather than offering isolated process capabilities, Atomica’s platform provides a configurable development and manufacturing pathway. Customers can combine proven process modules with custom layers to support specific architectures and move from feasibility through prototype, manufacturing readiness, and scalable production. The AI Photonic Integration Platform interfaces naturally with Atomica’s AI Optical Connectivity and AI Optical Source Platforms. Those platforms help generate, couple, align, and route light; the AI Photonic Integration Platform provides the substrate and package structures that integrate those optical functions with the rest of the system.
