Met een officieel startsein door uitvoerend vicevoorzitter van de Europese Commissie Henna Virkkunen, minister Heleen Herbert van Economische Zaken en Klimaat en minister Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius van Defensie zet Nederland vandaag een cruciale stap naar de technologische wereldtop. TNO en High Tech Campus Eindhoven beginnen de bouw van ’s werelds allereerste industriële fabriek voor de productie van Indiumfosfide fotonische chips op 6-inch wafer schaal. Door
Eindhoven, 22 January 2026 – Europe has a leading position in photonic chip technology, a key technology that enables a better world by driving energy-efficient digital infrastructure, accelerating medical innovation, and enhancing sustainability across mobility, agriculture, and communication systems. Without targeted investment and action, the EU risks losing its advantage as the global competition intensifies with large investments elsewhere. A group of eight European CEOs* from the sector, with the input
The contest aims to identify and elevate the next wave of startups that use PICs to drive meaningful innovation. Industry partners, including Aluvia Photonics, Bright Photonics, Epiphany, Ligentec, LioniX International, PHIX Photonics Assembly, New Origin, PhotonVentures, SMART Photonics, XIVER and imec, join forces to transform the winning idea into reality California, USA & Eindhoven, the Netherlands; 19 January 2025: Photonic
MIT spin-off and winner of the Global Photonics Engineering Contest, relocating R&D facilities to the Netherlands to scale photonic sensing for chemical monitoring Eindhoven, the Netherlands; 8 January 2026: Perceptra, the MIT spin-off pioneering photonic chip-based AI-enabled Raman sensors for chemical monitoring, has announced it has secured a €1.2 million investment from PhotonDelta, the Dutch
The Netherlands is developing a new industrial pilot line for photonic chips. This pilot line, hosted by TNO and part of the EU’s PIXEurope project, will be built at the High Tech Campus Eindhoven starting in February 2026. Once operational, it will serve as a testbed and fab to facilitate full-scale manufacturing of advanced Indium
Eindhoven, The Netherlands – 4 November 2025 – Six months into their joint evaluation program, Aluvia Photonics and Nokia Bell Labs have reported encouraging results in the qualification of Erbium-Doped Waveguide Amplifiers (EDWAs) for next-generation coherent communication systems. Early testing has shown flat gain across the C-band, successful amplification of dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM) comb
Eindhoven, The Netherlands; 3 November 2025: More than 700 leaders from the semiconductor and photonic chip industry are meeting in Eindhoven in one of the largest summits of its kind to discuss the future of the industry. PIC Summit Europe, organised by Photonic Chip industry accelerator PhotonDelta, brings together designers, foundries, integrators, OEMs, investors and
Eindhoven, the Netherlands – 30 October 2025. CoolSem Technologies has received a €700k loan from PhotonDelta, underscoring strong confidence in its mission to advance thermal management solutions for high-performance photonic and semiconductor chips. Based in Eindhoven, CoolSem Technologies develops advanced heat-conducting substrate technology for semiconductor, photonic, and high-performance computing applications. The patented WaLTIS platform replaces conventional substrates with a high-conductivity multi-layer stack that enables efficient, compact, and reliable heat transfer —
Enschede, the Netherlands – 16 October 2025 – Aluvia Photonics, a leading developer of Aluminium Oxide (AlOx) photonic integrated circuits (PICs), has secured new funding from PhotonDelta to expand its technology and deepen collaborations within the PhotonDelta ecosystem. The support strengthens Aluvia’s ability to accelerate ongoing projects and explore new opportunities with customers and suppliers
Eindhoven, Netherlands – 29 September 2025 – CUbIQ Technologies, a Dutch pioneer in quantum communication, announced a successful proof-of-concept (POC) showcasing a disruptive quantum key distribution (QKD), the first scalable QKD over DWDM solution in partnership with Coherent Corp. and Liberty Global. The demonstration marks a major milestone in the evolution of scalable, energy-efficient quantum-secure
Transatlantic partnership will accelerate global photonics innovation by giving companies access to programs for technology development, production, coaching, funding, and go-to-market strategies. Eindhoven, Netherlands and Rochester, NY – 24 June 2025: PhotonDelta, the Netherlands-based photonic chip accelerator, and Luminate NY, the world’s largest accelerator for startups with optics, photonics, and imaging enabled technologies, have entered
A global competition supported by leading photonics entities assembled the world’s top integrated photonics thought leaders and entrepreneurs to drive breakthroughs in photonic chip applications addressing global challenges. The jury has selected US-based Perceptra as the winner of the contest, receiving €50,000 in services to build the first ultra-compact PIC-based molecular analysers 1,000 times smaller
The Singapore Semiconductor Industry Association (SSIA) and PhotonDelta Foundation have formalised a strategic partnership to advance collaboration in photonic integrated circuits (PICs), building on the complementary capabilities of the semiconductor and Integrated Photonics ecosystems in Singapore and the Netherlands. The agreement provides a framework to facilitate technical knowledge exchange, promote joint innovation efforts, and support
Eindhoven, 7 May 2025 – Imec and TNO have officially launched the Holst Centre Photonics Lab, a state-of-the-art facility dedicated to integrated photonics research and development in the Netherlands. By advancing photonics research and fostering collaboration between industry and academia, the lab aims to bridge the gap between innovation and industrialisation for applications in sectors
Collaboration covers access to Silicon Catalyst’s comprehensive incubation programme to deliver expertise and access to funding Silicon Valley, California and Eindhoven, Netherlands – 31 March 2025: Photonic chip accelerator PhotonDelta has established a strategic collaboration with Silicon Catalyst, the world’s only incubator and accelerator focused on the global semiconductor industry. Over the last five years,
Eindhoven, 18 March 2025 – Spectrik, is taking new steps in the photonic gas sensors for the agricultural sector, thanks to the partnership with VTEC Lasers and Sensors. This strategic partnership is proof of trust in the supply chain partners and the confidence that the gas sensor for the livestock sector has the potential to
EINDHOVEN, the Netherlands. PHOTON IP, a manufacturer of advanced low-power optical chips, announced today it has raised a 4.75 million euro seed round. The round was led by Innovation Industries with participation from Faber and Brabantse Ontwikkelings Maatschappij (BOM) and with funding support from PhotonDelta. With this financing, PHOTON IP will accelerate the industrialisation and
27 November 2024 – This week, the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs announced that the National Growth Fund plan PhotonDelta will contribute €53.8 million to the PIXEurope pilot line of which a large part will be built in the Netherlands. The Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO) will coordinate the project on a pan-European level. This
Enschede, Netherlands, 18 July 2024 – QuiX Quantum, a European leader in photonic quantum computing hardware, proudly announces its selection by the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator programme, a key initiative of the European Commission. Being granted the EIC Accelerator highlights QuiX Quantum’s innovative contributions and secures financial support for their cutting-edge projects. The EIC
Amsterdam and Wageningen, Netherlands, 10 July 2024: Today, Surfix Diagnostics, alongside the Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI) and CRCbioscreen, announced a collaboration aimed at enhancing colorectal cancer (CRC) screening methods. This project is set to leverage Surfix Diagnostics’ advanced photonic diagnostic platform and novel biomarkers targeting molecularly defined high-risk precursor lesions and cancer discovered by NKI.
$1.2 billion backed photonic chip accelerator seeks to speed up the creation and adoption of advanced semiconductors enabled by integrated photonics. San Francisco, USA; 9 July 2024: Dutch photonic chip accelerator PhotonDelta has announced the opening of a new office in North America. The move is part of the organisation’s goal to grow the photonic
The Dutch startup MicroAlign secures a 1 million EUR seed investment to enable efficient interconnections in Quantum Photonic Computers. EINDHOVEN, The Netherlands, 5 June 2024 – MicroAlign, a spin-off from the Eindhoven University of Technology, announced today that it has closed €1 million in seed-funding to accelerate the commercialisation of high-accuracy fibre arrays. The funding
Researchers using QuiX Quantum’s technology have successfully demonstrated the on-chip generation of Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) states, a critical component for the advancement of photonic quantum computing. This breakthrough establishes QuiX Quantum’s integrated technology as a leading platform for photonic quantum computing and further validates QuiX Quantum’s roadmap to deliver a scalable universal quantum computer. A GHZ
Breukelen, Netherlands – 16 April 2024 – PhotonVentures, the deep tech venture capital fund focused on startups and scale-ups developing solutions with photonic chips, is proud to announce that its second fundraising round of over €15 million has been successfully completed, bringing the fund’s total to the targeted €75 million. The enthusiasm in the market
Eindhoven, the Netherlands; Massachusetts, USA; 25th March 2024: More than 400 technology, academic and industrial organisations from around the world have contributed to a new integrated photonics roadmap led by foundation PhotonDelta and the Microphotonics Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). IPSR-I provides a technology roadmap and a clear way forward for building