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# STMicroelectronics unveils PIC100 photonic chip for AI data centre links
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2025-02-20-stmicroelectronics-pic100-photonics-chip/
- Published: 2025-02-19T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-25T05:01:30.000Z
- Description: STMicroelectronics unveiled PIC100, a silicon photonics chip on its BiCMOS55X platform for 800G and 1.6T AI data centre optical links, made at its Crolles, France fab with AWS as a named collaborator, ramping in the second half of 2025.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Compute and infrastructure, Industry, investment and R&D, #news, #reported, #ai-drafted

Reported AI-drafted [Data Center Dynamics report on STMicroelectronics' PIC100 launch, 20 February 2025](https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/stmicroelectronics-unveils-new-data-center-photonics-chip-for-ai-workload-interconnects/?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** It does not establish that the chip has entered volume production or that AWS has committed to buy it.

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