As fibeReality pointed out in a recent article, the counseling from Hock Tan, CEO of Broadcom, to his former executive on the wireless side of…
Category: Photonic Integration
Inphi: Boosting Valuation for Later Exit
While fibeReality is unaware of the exact date of when Chuck Mattera, the CEO, of II-VI, negated the proposal to buy out Finisar’s IC group,…
CPO Gaining on COBO Regarding Irrelevance
Notwithstanding the title of this article, a good number of optical suppliers, which want to do business with Microsoft, are likely to be too wary…
Microsoft/Facebook Will Never Deploy Co-Packaged Optics as Defined
Co-Packaged Optics (CPO) is a serious risk to the well-being of the photonics industry, which can ill-afford the expenditure of such valuable resources. The concept…
Infinera: Potential for Exit by Chip Firm Buyout
fibeRealty has speculated in the past about Infinera doing a spinoff of its DSP/PIC combination. However, given the current intensity in the consolidation of semiconductor…
OSFP-XD Takes the Stand
In August 2018, fibeReality published the article: “Co-Packaged Optics on Trial,” in which we offered this summary judgement: “It is not hard to see why…
Lumentum: Reorganizations Toward 3D Sensing Paradigm
A recent, unpublicized, corporate-wide reorganization by Lumentum Holdings might look like an admission of the company’s inability and/or unwillingness to efficiently run its internal factories…
Cisco and Marvell/Inphi: 400ZR as Microcosm for Future Strategies
When fibeReality published its report on 400ZR in June 2020, we were clearly on the low end of the forecasts in the industry. Nevertheless, as…
Finisar: Agonizing Wait to Cultural Disaster
Some previous assumptions go out the window, and certain, subsequent actions make greater sense, with our current understanding that Finisar’s destiny was out of the…
Inphi: De Facto Merchant Coherent DSP Play
While the bulk of the analyst community in the optics space continues to engage in pandering on the Cisco Systems purchase of Acacia Communications, rather…
