Nvidia has announced it is investing a combined $4 billion in two companies developing photonics technologies.
The U.S. chip giant announced on Monday it's investing $2 billion in Lumentum and the same amount in Coherent.
Lumentum is a U.S.-based company that is developing optical and photonic technologies to power the networks and infrastructure behind AI, cloud computing and next-generation communications.
Coherent, also based in the U.S., develops photonics technology, which refers to harnessing light (photons) to create components and systems that enable high-performance optical applications.
"Together with Lumentum, NVIDIA is advancing the world's most sophisticated silicon photonics to build the next generation of gigawatt-scale AI factories," Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia, said in a statement.
He added that Nvidia will work with Coherent on developing next-generation silicon photonics for AI infrastructure.
