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Coherent Breaks Ground on Expanded Texas Facility, Scaling AI’s Optical Backbone | AI BriefWire

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Coherent Breaks Ground on Expanded Texas Facility, Scaling AI’s Optical Backbone

Coherent has started construction on an expanded manufacturing facility in Sherman, Texas. The company produces lasers and optical components critical for AI system connectivity. This expansion aims to enhance the production of advanced optical technology for AI infrastructure.

Coherent Breaks Ground on Expanded Texas Facility, Scaling AI’s Optical Backbone

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Coherent’s expansion at its Sherman, Texas, campus scales what it calls the world’s first volume production 6-inch indium phosphide fab, a key supplier across NVIDIA’s AI stack.

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.

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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.

“AI is the ultimate general-purpose technology,” Huang said during a conversation with Anderson at the groundbreaking. “Because intelligence is fundamental — the ability to process information, to reason and solve problems — it affects every single industry.”

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