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Coherent Breaks Ground on Scaled up Texas Facility, Scaling AI’s Optical Backbone
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AI runs at the speed of light.
Key facts
- When 576 GPUs span eight racks and operate as a single system, as they will in NVIDIA Vera Rubin Ultra NVL576, which links eight NVLink racks of 72 NVIDIA Rubin Ultra GPUs into one 576-GPU domain
- As part of today’s event, Coherent is announcing a $50 million CHIPS Act grant to help finance the expanded Sherman facility, building on roughly $17 million in earlier support from the Texas CHIPS
- That manufacturing gap shows up in the wafers themselves: while silicon fabs run on 12-inch wafers, most of the world’s InP production is still stuck on 3- and 4-inch wafers, lower yields and far
- NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang and Coherent CEO Jim Anderson were on hand for the ceremony, joined by Sherman Mayor Shawn Temann and Adriana Cruz, executive director of Texas Economic
Summary
Coherent broke ground today on an expanded manufacturing building in Sherman, Texas. The company makes the lasers, optical components and compound semiconductors that wire AI systems together, and runs what it calls the world’s first 6-inch indium phosphide fab. NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang and Coherent CEO Jim Anderson were on hand for the ceremony, joined by Sherman Mayor Shawn Temann and Adriana Cruz, executive director of Texas Economic Development and Tourism, who delivered remarks. The expanded building will scale production of the same InP wafers that carry data between chips, servers and data centers at the speed of light, the optical backbone of modern AI infrastructure. It’s the kind of milestone that turns a commitment into construction: a concrete step in expanding advanced semiconductor manufacturing in the United States.