How is silicon photonics powering the AI revolution and benefitting industries from autonomous vehicles to healthcare? A new edition of the book, Silicon Photonics: Fueling the Information Revolution will reveal the answers.
A decade ago, the editor of Gazettabyte and Daryl Inniss, now Principal Market Analyst at LightCounting Market Research, wrote the book: Silicon Photonics: Fueling the Information Revolution, published by Morgan Kaufmann, part of Elsevier.
We are delighted to report that we have agreed with the publisher to proceed with a second edition.
Many of the arguments about how silicon photonics would develop, as made in the first book, have come to pass. But much has also changed, AI’s phenomenal rise and the emergence of massive AI computing clusters that work only because of photonics enabling their vast networking needs.
While AI will be the primary driver of silicon photonics in the coming years, the book will touch on emerging non-datacom/telecoms applications for silicon photonics such as Lidar and biosensors.
We look forward to our writing journey and conducting interviews with incumbents, start-ups, and academics to deepen our understanding of the technology and the market. The book will explain the technology, the emerging ecosystem, the evolving challenges in bringing silicon photonics to market, and the end applications.
One aim of the first edition was to highlight how silicon photonics would converge with the semiconductor world. Now with the advent of AI, silicon photonics is butting up to AI chips, the most complex of all compute silicon. Yet the integration of photonics and electronics is still to come. The book will discuss the chip world as well as optics.
The second edition is targeted to be published in 2027. We will provide book updates and relevant articles as we advance with our research and writing.
Daryl Inniss and Roy Rubenstein
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