Coherent starts sampling 300mm silicon carbide substrates for AI chips

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Coherent Begins Customer Sampling of 300mm High Thermal Conductivity Silicon Carbide Substrates for AI Infrastructure

August 17, 2026 4:05 PM EDT

SAXONBURG, Pa., Aug. 17, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Coherent Corp. (NYSE: COHR), a global leader in photonics, today announced that it has begun sampling of its 300mm high thermal conductivity silicon carbide (SiC) substrates to leading AI semiconductor partners. The milestone advances Coherents scalable materials platform for the growing thermal management requirements of artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) systems.

As AI processors move toward higher power densities, effective heat removal is becoming a primary constraint on system performance, reliability, and datacenter efficiency. Customer sampling moves Coherents 300mm SiC... More