Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
In this video interview at Computex 2026 in Taipei, Taiwan, EE Times' Nitin Dahad spoke to Samarth Vadia, CEO and co-founder of Linq, a startup focused on programmable silicon photonics technology for the data center.
The company says it has developed a low-loss photonic fabric optimized for information processing on chip by combining advanced semiconductor materials with scalable manufacturing to enable energy-efficient hardware for future computing workloads. Its' first product in all-optical networking is the Linque RISE, which Vadia said is currently developed and deployed with various customers and partners in the AI training and inference space.
Linque is also a winner of the 2026 IC Taiwan Grand Challenge (ICTGC), a global innovation competition focused on accelerating breakthrough semiconductor and deep technology solutions, and organized by Taiwan's National Science and Technology Council (NSTC).
In thsi video interview, he explains more about the startup company, which spun out of the Technical University of Munich (TUM), what the company's value proposition is, and the significance of being awarded the ICTGC.
Watch the video interview at the link.
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In this video interview at Computex 2026 in Taipei, Taiwan, EE Times' Nitin Dahad spoke to Samarth Vadia, CEO and co-founder of Linq, a startup focused on programmable silicon photonics technology for the data center.
The company says it has developed a low-loss photonic fabric optimized for information processing on chip by combining advanced semiconductor materials with scalable manufacturing to enable energy-efficient hardware for future computing workloads. Its' first product in all-optical networking is the Linque RISE, which Vadia said is currently developed and deployed with various customers and partners in the AI training and inference space.
Linque is also a winner of the 2026 IC Taiwan Grand Challenge (ICTGC), a global innovation competition focused on accelerating breakthrough semiconductor and deep technology solutions, and organized by Taiwan's National Science and Technology Council (NSTC).
In thsi video interview, he explains more about the startup company, which spun out of the Technical University of Munich (TUM), what the company's value proposition is, and the significance of being awarded the ICTGC.
Watch the video interview at the link.
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