February 5, 2026, 6:30 AM Eastern Time – Tower Semiconductor, a leading foundry for high-value analog semiconductor solutions (Nasdaq/Tel Aviv Stock Exchange: TSEM), announced today that it is expanding AI infrastructure deployments through high-performance silicon photonics technology, which is used for 1.6T data center optical modules designed for NVIDIA network protocols. Tower Semiconductor's silicon photonics technology can provide data rates up to twice those of previous silicon photonics solutions, bringing higher bandwidth and throughput to optical interconnects, thereby enhancing the performance of AI applications on AI infrastructure.
Tower Semiconductor CEO Russell Ellwanger stated: "Tower Semiconductor is proud to provide advanced high-speed technology that supports the rigorous demands of data centers and AI. We continue to make significant investments in its silicon-germanium (SiGe) and silicon photonics platforms to support the ecosystem with industry-leading performance, scalability, and manufacturability, helping customers advance the development of next-generation data center architectures."
NVIDIA Senior Vice President of Networking Gilad Shainer stated: "The exponential growth of AI is driving the demand for new high-speed, scalable networks to connect AI infrastructure. NVIDIA is working with Tower Semiconductor to advance the ecosystem, achieving more efficient AI infrastructure through next-generation silicon photonics technology and accelerating large-scale AI applications."
Tower Semiconductor's silicon photonics platform is optimized for high-speed optical interconnects, making it an ideal foundry partner for market-leading companies in AI infrastructure, data center networks, and advanced telecommunications.
About Tower Semiconductor
Tower Semiconductor Ltd. is a leading foundry for high-value analog semiconductor solutions, providing customers in growth markets such as consumer, industrial, automotive, mobile, infrastructure, medical, aerospace, and defense with technology, development, and process platforms. Tower Semiconductor focuses on making a positive and sustainable impact on the world through long-term partnerships and its advanced innovative analog technology products. Its technology products include a wide range of customizable process platforms, including SiGe, BiCMOS, mixed-signal/CMOS, RF CMOS, CMOS image sensors, non-imaging sensors, displays, integrated power management (BCD and 700V), photonics, and MEMS. Tower Semiconductor also offers world-class design support services to enable fast and accurate design cycles and provides process transfer services for IDM and fabless companies, including development, transfer, and optimization. To provide customers with multi-fab sourcing and expanded capacity, Tower Semiconductor operates one 200mm fab in Israel, two 200mm fabs in the United States, owns 51% of TPSCo in Japan with two fabs (200mm and 300mm), shares one 300mm fab in Agrate, Italy with STMicroelectronics, and can access 300mm capacity through Intel’s New Mexico facility.