Atomica, a U.S.-based microfabrication foundry, has introduced its AI Optical Connectivity Platform, a new microfabrication solution designed to help companies develop the optical, thermal, mechanical, and packaging technologies needed to scale next-generation AI infrastructure. The platform addresses growing industry demand for advanced optical connectivity as AI systems require faster, more efficient data movement across increasingly complex computing environments.
As AI infrastructure continues to expand, the challenge extends beyond processor performance to efficient data movement across increasingly larger AI clusters. Growing bandwidth requirements, power efficiency demands, thermal limitations, and packaging complexity are driving the adoption of optical connectivity technologies closer to GPUs, accelerators, memory systems, and networking components.
Atomica's AI Optical Connectivity Platform has been developed to address these evolving infrastructure requirements by providing a scalable microfabrication foundation for precision optical integration.
The platform supports a wide range of advanced microfabrication capabilities, including precision fiber alignment, silicon optical benches, V-grooves, microlenses, micromirrors, waveguide structures, optical alignment features, wafer-level packaging components, interposers, TSV and TGV integration structures, optical engine packaging, and thermal management microstructures.
By combining standardized manufacturing processes, design modules, materials expertise, and integration methods, Atomica aims to make custom optical microfabrication more modular, repeatable, and production-ready while reducing development risk and shortening product development cycles.
Atomica's platform is designed for organizations developing:
The platform focuses on solving manufacturing challenges related to optical alignment, packaging, thermal stability, cooling, and large-scale deployment of photonic systems.
Eldon Klaassen, CEO of Atomica
"AI is forcing the hardware industry to rethink the physical layer. The challenge is no longer just processor speed. It is moving data efficiently across thousands of processors without wasting power, space, or thermal budget. Optical connectivity is becoming one of the most important answers, and Atomica is focused on making these systems manufacturable."
"Many companies can demonstrate optical innovation in the lab. The harder question is whether those systems can be aligned, packaged, tested, cooled, and manufactured repeatably. That is the gap Atomica is built to help close."
The launch reflects Atomica's broader strategy of supporting AI hardware innovation through scalable microfabrication platforms that address photonics, sensors, MEMS technologies, and biotechnology devices. As AI infrastructure evolves, the company aims to enable manufacturers with the physical technologies needed to connect, package, cool, and integrate increasingly sophisticated computing systems.
Atomica is a U.S.-based microfabrication foundry that builds advanced platforms for AI hardware, photonics, sensors, MEMS, and biotechnology devices.
Atomica supports customers developing AI optical connectivity, AI optical source integration, AI photonic packaging, AI thermal microstructures, physical AI sensors, MEMS optical control systems, and biotechnology microdevices with rapid prototyping and scalable production.
Atomica operates a 30,000-square-foot Class 100 cleanroom near Santa Barbara, California, supporting a wide range of capabilities and materials with ISO 9001 certification and ITAR registration. Capabilities include photolithography, deposition, dry etch, wet etch, bonding, plating, metrology, testing, dicing, and planarization. Atomica leverages engineering collaboration, process standardization, modeling and simulation, artificial intelligence optimization, and proprietary fab technology to achieve customer objectives.
