Silicon photonics company enhances integration and manufacturing capability with Novati Technologies acquisition

Skorpios Technologies, a US System on Chip (SoC) company, has acquired Novati Technologies, a semiconductor integration company and fab located in Austin, Texas.

The Novatis facility is known for its innovative work in 2.5D/3D integration, photonics, MEMS sensors, and micro fluidics for medical applications. Skorpios has a proprietary wafer scale process that allows it to monolithically integrate silicon with III-V gain materials used as the active medium, to create silicon photonic ICs.

Prior to the acquisition, Skorpios had developed its heterogeneous integration process in collaboration with Novati, and was building its ICs in Novati's foundry. After the acquisition, Skorpios will immediately ramp up production, starting with its 100Gb QSFP CWDM4 optical transceiver.

"This transaction marks an exciting time in Skorpios' history," said Stephen Krasulick, chairman, founder and CEO of Skorpios. "The ability to develop and commercialise products based on our proprietary heterogeneous integration process in our own foundry is the next logical step in the evolution of our company. With this acquisition, Skorpios will be well positioned to deliver highly differentiated products with shorter development cycles.

"We believe there are tremendous synergies between Skorpios' heterogeneous integration platform and the technologies currently being developed and offered at Novati."

Skorpios' platform can be used to address a wide range of applications: high speed video, data and voice communications for networking, cloud computing, consumer, medical, and more.

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