Synopsys Inc of Mountain View, CA, USA ― which provides electronic design automation (EDA) software, semiconductor IP and services for chip and electronic system design ― and optical network provider Juniper Networks Inc of Sunnyvale, CA, USA have closed a transaction to form a new, separate company that will provide an open silicon photonics platform to address the growing photonic requirements in applications such as telecom, datacom, light detection & ranging (LiDAR), healthcare, high-performance computing (HPC), artificial intelligence (AI), and optical computing...
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