Optoelectronics Research Centre awarded £11m for silicon photonics commercialisation
Saqib Bhatti, the UK's Minister for Tech and the Digital Economy, left, and Professor Graham Reed, director of the Optoelectronics Research Centre at the University of Southampton (Image: University of Southampton)
The Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) at the University of Southampton has been chosen as one of two new Innovation and Knowledge Centres (IKC) to help bring new semiconductor chip technologies to market.
Part of a £26.8m government package to boost the UK's research and production of microchips, the centre at the University of Southampton, called Cornerstone, will receive £11m to bring together industry and research expertise and improve the development and commercialisation of silicon photonics technologies.
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