Chipmaker Nvidia (NVDA) has committed at least $6.5 billion over the past three months to photonics companies, as it looks for ways to remove on...

Nvidia has invested $6.5B+ in photonics since March, targeting Coherent, Lumentum, Marvell, Corning, and Ayar Labs to replace copper with light in AI data centres.

Photonics is considered to be a more efficient alternative to the current process of transferring data using electricity, which could be crucial to the AI boom.