Tower Semiconductor, Oriole Combine for Nanosecond Optical Circuit Switching in AI Networking
Tower Semiconductor and Oriole Networks will collaborate to deliver nanosecond optical circuit switching using Tower’s silicon photonics platform, enabling deterministic low-latency AI networking fabrics. The partnership targets scalable scale-up and scale-out architectures with high-speed transceivers as the AI Networking market approaches $80 billion by 2030.
1. Collaboration Overview
Tower Semiconductor and Oriole Networks announced a joint effort to integrate nanosecond optical circuit switching into AI networking fabrics, combining Tower’s mature silicon photonics foundry capabilities with Oriole’s PRISM and PRISM Ultra edge-switching platforms.
2. Technology Details
The collaboration leverages Tower’s silicon photonics integration of lasers, optical amplification, modulators and detectors to enable deterministic-latency, high-bandwidth optical circuit switching, targeting sub-nanosecond tuning speeds and predictable tail latency for large-scale AI clusters.
3. Market Impact
With the AI Networking market projected to exceed $80 billion by 2030, the partnership positions Tower Semiconductor to capture growing demand for high-radix optical interconnects and low-latency network cores in next-generation data center and AI infrastructure applications.