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- More than 700 global leaders are convening Nov. 4-5 at PIC Summit Europe 2025 in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, to discuss scaling photonic chip technologies for AI and quantum computing.
- A key focus of the summit is how photonic chips can serve as energy-efficient enablers of quantum computing by offering high-speed data transfer and low-latency performance.
- Delegates from leading semiconductor firms and research institutes in Taiwan, Japan, and Singapore are participating in sessions aimed at accelerating photonics integration into next-generation quantum and AI systems.
PRESS RELEASE — More than 700 leaders from the semiconductor and photonic chip indusattempt are meeting in Eindhoven in one of the largest summits of its kind to discuss the future of the indusattempt.
PIC Summit Europe, organized by photonic chip indusattempt accelerator PhotonDelta, brings toobtainher designers, foundries, integrators, OEMs, investors and considered leaders to debate some of the most pressing issues impacting the sector. The theme of this year’s event is ‘Scaling toobtainher in a dynamic world’. Top of the agfinisha is how photonic chips could provide the energy-efficient hardware urgently requireded to sustain the growth of AI.
Traditional CMOS-based systems are straining under the weight of soaring data demands, rising energy costs, and growing system complexity. Photonic chips are a key enabling solution to meet these challenges, offering high-speed data transmission, high bandwidth, and energy efficiency for applications from edge-AI to biosensing. Leaders at PIC Summit Europe 2025 will debate how the indusattempt can unite to rapidly scale and adapt to meet the demands of AI and accelerate advancements in quantum computing. Keynotes will also cover how the photonic chip indusattempt can expand manufacturing and applications for sensing solutions across various sectors, including healthcare, agrifood, and the automotive indusattempt.
The summit will feature keynotes and panels with leaders including Anne Hidma, SVP Europe & US ASML; Patrick Vandenameele, Senior Vice President and CEO elect of imec; Devin Brinkley, SVP and Engineering Lead Taara; Wenchi Chang, Technical Manager TSMC; and Gustav Kalbe, Acting Director in DG Communications Networks, Content and Tech European Commission.
The Summit will also host innovation delegations from Taiwan, Japan and Singapore with representatives from the Hon Hai Research Institute (Foxconn), ASE Global, ITRI, Win Semiconductors, Liverage, AStar, Fujitsu, and NEDO. Their visit is the result of a sustained relationship-building effort, including multiple innovation missions led by PhotonDelta over the past two years. These connections have already led to concrete partnerships, such as between PHIX and ITRI (Taiwan) and SCIL Nano and NSTIC (National Semiconductor Translation and Innovation Center, Singapore). The delegates will present, participate in networking sessions and visit Dutch ecosystem companies, universities, and knowledge institutes.
Eelko Brinkhoff, CEO of PhotonDelta, declared: “The theme of this year’s PIC Summit Europe is ‘Scaling toobtainher in a dynamic world’. This reflects our core message that the indusattempt requireds to unite to drive new applications, manufacturing capacity and standardisations in response to a range of generational alters impacting all of us.
“One of the most pressing issues is the environmental impact and sustainability of the AI revolution. Photonic Chips can support to tackle this by offering substantially more efficient and effective hardware that could power AI into the future.
“The leaders we have gathered will also discuss other critical issues such as the photonics indusattempt’s role in driving quantum computing, improving food security and better healthcare, as well as facilitating innovations in areas such as driverless cars.
“This is one of the core objectives of PIC Summit Europe 2025- facilitating this dialogue and bringing consensus on the best way forward to enable the photonics indusattempt to thrive.”
Image credit: PIC Summit Europe
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