Staera Semiconductor is a San Francisco semiconductor startup that emerged from stealth in November 2026, formerly operating as New Silicon Corporation. It builds Lightwire, an optical interconnect fabricated directly inside silicon chips by combining silicon CMOS circuits, GaN LED light sources and silicon nitride waveguides on a single wafer in standard commercial foundries, replacing copper links between AI compute, memory and racks. The technology grew out of the SMART Low Energy Electronic Systems research group in Singapore, and the company is targeting commercial release in 2030.
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