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Samsung patents chip package that mixes light and electricity

Samsung has filed a patent for a computer chip design that combines standard processing units with optical engines on a single base. These optical engines use a special coupler to turn light signals into electrical signals, allowing data to move between the light-based components and the main processors.

Why it mattersThis design could help computers handle data faster by using light to move information between parts of the chip, which is a common goal for improving high-speed computing.

In the filing’s own words

Disclosed herein are methods, devices and systems including a substrate supporting one or more processing units and one or more optical engines, the substrate coupling the one or more processing units and the one or more optical engines. The one or more optical engines include a first near compute device and a first bi-directional optical coupler, and the one or more optical engines may convert an incoming optical signal received by the first bi-directional optical coupler to an electrical signal, and the one or more optical engines may route the electrical signal to the first near compute device or the one or more processing units via the one or more optical engines

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. A device comprising: a substrate supporting one or more processing units and one or more optical engines; the substrate coupling the one or more processing units and the one or more optical engines; the one or more optical engines including a first near compute device and a first bi-directional optical coupler; the one or more optical engines being configured to convert an incoming optical signal received by the first bi-directional optical coupler to an electrical signal; and the one or more optical engines being configured to route the electrical signal to the first near compute device or the one or more processing units via the one or more optical engines.

Facts

Company
Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
Official title
SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR MULTI-DEVICE PHOTONIC PACKAGE
Publication number
US20260276887A1
Application number
19315467
Filed
Aug 29, 2025
Published
Sep 17, 2026
Inventors
1
Claims
20

Classified under

G02B 6/12004 Physics & computing
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