• Technical Conference:  30 March – 03 April 2025
  • Exhibition: 01 – 03 April 2025
  • Moscone Center, San Francisco, California, USA

How do Co-Packaged Optics Become Manufacturable?

Sunday, 30 March, 16:00 – 18:30

Rooms 203-204 (Level 2)

This workshop focuses on the critical obstacles the industry must overcome to transition Co-Packaged Optics (CPO) from emerging technology to scalable, volume manufacturing. Attendees will engage in in-depth discussions on how to address key bottlenecks and mitigate risks along the CPO supply chain, from foundries to field deployment.

Topics include designing for manufacturability and Assembly Design Kits (ADKs), advanced semiconductor packaging challenges such as increasing fiber count at increasingly smaller pitches, interposers and through-silicon vias (TSVs), and effective thermal management at both the package and system levels.

We will also explore the reliability and safety of high-power external lasers, operational risks associated with embedded lasers, and the importance of well-defined interfaces and roles among ASIC manufacturers, OSATs, and contract manufacturers, to create a future manufacturable ecosystem for CPO.

Organizers

Yoojin Ban (Lead), IMEC, Belgium

Juthika Basak, Advanced Micro Devices, United States

Takako Hirokawa, GlobalFoundries, United States

Sudip Shekhar, Univ. of British Columbia, Canada

Antonio Tartaglia, Ericsson, Italy

Speakers

Giorgio Cazzaniga, JABIL, Italy

Tom Gray, NVIDIA, United States

Robert Lee, Corning, United States

Hiroyuki Mieno, AGC, Japan

Akihiro Noriki, AIST, Japan

Bardia Pezeshki, AVICENA, United States

Nicholas Psaila, INTEL, United Kingdom

Anand Ramaswamy, Broadcom, United States

Sander Roosendaal, SYNOPSYS, Netherlands

Pooya Tadayon, Ayar Labs, United States

Matt Traverso, Marvell, United States