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SMART Photonics and GlobalFoundries plan a joint manufacturing service combining Eindhoven’s light-producing components with silicon photonics. Targeting availability in the second half of 2027, the partnership offers a potential route to international customers—with qualification, delivery conditions and commercial adoption still to follow.
Cloud computing is no longer merely a software industry. It has become a strategic layer of infrastructure connecting artificial intelligence, energy systems, data governance and industrial competitiveness, raising fundamental questions about sovereignty, scale and Europe’s capacity to build its own computing future.
Iceland is often overlooked because of its size. Yet the country offers a compelling example of how geography, renewable energy, resource management and institutional flexibility can create resilience. In many respects, Iceland functions as a societal laboratory where constraints are continuously transformed into capabilities.
Norway is often associated with oil, gas and extraordinary national wealth. Yet its deeper achievement may lie elsewhere. Through long-term planning, strong institutions and one of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds, Norway has demonstrated how resource wealth can be transformed into resilience for future generations.
Europe leads the debate on artificial intelligence, digital sovereignty and technology regulation. Yet beneath these ambitions lies a more fundamental question: does Europe possess the infrastructure required to support large-scale AI? From energy certainty to resource allocation, geography and adaptability, five forces may ultimately determine Europe’s ability to compete in the age of artificial intelligence.
Ireland built its success on openness. Through education, foreign investment and global integration, it became a hub for technology, pharmaceuticals and digital services. Yet as globalisation evolves, the country faces a new challenge: transforming international success into long-term domestic resilience.
As artificial intelligence and cloud computing continue to scale, communication networks are becoming a critical part of digital infrastructure. This briefing explores how EFFECT Photonics is helping address the growing challenge of moving information efficiently through increasingly complex AI and cloud environments.
As artificial intelligence scales, computation is no longer the only challenge. This briefing examines how communication, networking and photonics are emerging as critical constraints that may shape the future performance, efficiency and infrastructure of AI systems.
Artificial intelligence is often discussed in terms of algorithms and computing power. Yet the future of AI may depend just as much on the physical infrastructure beneath it. From photonics to energy systems, intelligence remains constrained by the laws of physics.
Artificial intelligence is often discussed as a software revolution. Increasingly, however, AI is revealing itself as something much larger: an industrial system built upon energy, semiconductors, infrastructure and global supply chains. As intelligence scales, the real competition may shift from algorithms toward the ecosystems capable of sustaining them.
