Tower Semiconductor controls the exact manufacturing chokepoint for next-generation data center cables and just locked in $1.3 billion in future contracts.
Tower owns the published radiation data the space data center photonics slot requires; that design-win pipeline accrues to Tower.
Tower Semi is the dominant 1.6T silicon photonics foundry with 70%+ capacity reserved; re-rates to premium as photonics ramps.
Tower Semiconductor is identified as the biggest winner from the SiPho transition, operating the industry's most mature and highest-performance SiPho process node, uniquely qualified at 1.6T, and planning significant capacity expansion.