Shares of Tower Semiconductor Ltd. (TSEM) moved higher after the company announced a major silicon photonics breakthrough in collaboration with Coherent Corp.
The stock is currently trading at $178.74, up $15.11 or 9.24%, on the Nasdaq. It opened at $170.94 after closing the previous session at $163.63. The stock has traded between $28.64 and $181.72 over the past 52 weeks.
Tower Semiconductor and Coherent demonstrated 400Gbps per lane data transmission using a silicon modulator built on a production-ready silicon photonics (SiPho) platform, targeting next-generation 3.2T optical transceivers.
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