Recently, ICCSZ visited Elite Photonics Technologies Co., Ltd. located in GLP I-Park, Shunyi, Beijing, and conducted an interview with Mr. Li Jing, the company's COO. It was understood that earlier this year, Elite Photonics Technologies successfully completed an angel investment in the amount of tens of millions RMB, aiming to accelerate the launch of their high-end silicon-based optoelectronic chip products to serve China's domestic market and addressing the current technology bottleneck in China.

Elite Photonics Technologies is a high-tech company specializing in the design of next generation silicon-based optoelectronic integrated circuit. The company has a top-notch team of experts from around the globe in the field of silicon-based optoelectronics. The company has established a complete supply chain from silicon photonics chip design, foundry services to packaging and testing. The company is dedicated to pioneer the advancement of domestic silicon photonic industry and becoming a leader in the silicon-based optoelectronic technology.

The company's main products currently include 400G DR4/FR4 PIC, 800G DR8/2FR4 PIC, and 800G DR4/800G FR4 PIC. Among them, the 400G PIC is in mass production, 800G DR8/2FR4 PIC is in small volume production, and 800G DR4/FR4 PIC is in the prototyping stage.

The products that Elite Photonics Technologies are launching into the market are a series of silicon-based optoelectronic integrated circuit chip products for 400Gbps DR4 and FR4 applications. They offer a complete 400G and 800G solution, with the flexibility to match different manufacturers' DSPs, so to provide customers with customized solutions. In terms of power consumption, these products have significant improvement over traditional solution, further reducing the data center energy consumption as part of the company drive for greener environment. In terms of cost, they offer further reductions compared to traditional solution, saving costs for data center deployments and creating more value for customers.

Laying Out Higher-Speed Product Strategy and Leveraging the Cost Advantages of Silicon Photonic Chips In recent years, the booming AI industry has increased the demand for ever higher speed interconnect, and high-speed interconnect chips are playing a very important role. Mr. Li mentioned that Elite Photonics Technologies has launched a series of silicon photonic chips for 400G/800G applications and is targeting 1.6T applications in the future. Elite Photonics Technologies has also laid out 200Gb/s per channel silicon photonic chip products and coherent optical products.

Mr. Li believes that silicon photonic chips, which use silicon as the substrate for integrated circuits, have the advantages of low cost and good scalability. They utilize mature CMOS technology to manufacture optical devices. Compared to the traditional solutions, silicon photonic chips offer higher integration and more compact dimensions. Silicon photonics solutions are expected to find more extensive applications and market space in the future.

The core silicon photonic chip products of the company are based on the Silicon on Insulator (SOI) platform, compatible with CMOS process. They can be produced in large-scale and high-precision. The overall performance of these chips is in compliance with the industry standard, and is leading in domestic level. We are offering competitive pricing. These chips can be widely used in next-generation data centers, 5G/6G communication, fiber-to-the-home, consumer electronics, autonomous driving, industrial automation, and other applications.