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Luxtera lands project with Sun Microsystems and DARPA.(CONTRACTS)

Article from: Fiber Optics and Communications Article date: October 1, 2008

Luxtera, a developer of Silicon CMOS Photonics, has signed a multimillion-dollar contract with Sun Microsystems for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Ultraperformance Nanophotonic Intrachip Communications (UNIC) program.

Luxtera's technology and silicon fabrication processes will be used to develop next-generation optical interconnects to produce chip-to-chip and intra-chip interconnect technology. This project is designed to provide the computing industry with low-cost, enhanced, high-performance computer ...

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