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Lumentum CEO warns of impending bottleneck on critical material used for silicon photonics — fab and material shortfall already lags 30% below customer needs as co-packaged optics demand skyrockets


Nvidia put $2 billion each into Lumentum and Coherent. Between them, they hold most of the world's indium phosphide capacity.

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