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– The company acquires global leader VLC Photonics S.L. to add photonic integration engineering, design and test to its portfolio of services –

Tokyo, November 12, 2020 – Hitachi High-Tech Corporation (President and CEO : Masahiro Miyazaki/ Hitachi High-Tech) today announced that VLC Photonics S.L. (VLC) has become Hitachi High-Tech’s subsidiary company and will continue to provide Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) engineering services as part of the Company’s broader offering.

PICs are devices in which optical functions are integrated into wafer materials such as Silicon, Indium Phosphide and Silicon Nitride and have immediate applications in transceivers for optical communications.

Recently internet traffic has been continuing to increase significantly due to the data arising from social media, video streaming services, working from home, IoT and the overall digitization of our economy and environment.

In the optical communications market, higher speeds and increased bandwidth are required to satisfy this growing demand. Meanwhile as demand gets stronger, the market has also had to manage issues of power consumption, size and cost reduction, and manufacturing scalability. Photonic integration provides the means to address all these requirements in a more holistic way than the traditional approach of assembling optical systems from discrete parts.

A long-term provider of components and services to the optical communications industry, Hitachi High-Tech is aware of the increasing need of customers for greater integration and innovation. As the foremost independent provider of PIC design, test and engineering services, VLC is in an excellent position to help Hitachi High-Tech serve the new requirements of its existing customers as well as providing a base for the development of new service provisions.

Besides the optical communications market, PICs are also becoming a critical platform technology within many industrial sectors such as automotive sensing, environmental testing, health sciences and quantum technology.

Going forward, Hitachi High-Tech will not only provide a more complete one-stop service, but also provide engineering services that leverage the strengths of both companies to contribute to solving customers’ issues and expand our business.

Hitachi High-Tech is committed to global sales leveraging the personal connections, business relationships and expertise it has cultivated as a specialist trading company, and creating high value-added businesses that start with resolving customer’s issues, in order to provide solutions that contribute to resolving the issues facing our customers in the manufacturing sector.

About Hitachi High-Tech Corporation
Hitachi High-Tech Corporation, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is engaged in activities in a broad range of fields, including Analytical & Medical Solutions (manufacture and sales of clinical analyzers, biotechnology products, and analytical instruments), Nano-Technology Solutions (manufacture and sales of semiconductor manufacturing equipment and analysis equipment), and Industrial Solutions (providing high value-added solutions in the fields of social & industrial infrastructures and mobility, etc.). For further information, visit https://www.hitachi-hightech.com/global/

■ Contact
Opto-Communications Dept., Social Infrastructure Div.,
Industrial Solution Business Group
Hitachi High-Tech Corporation (Contact: Shunsuke Goto)
Phone: +81 90 2643 8254

■ For Media inquiries
CSR & Corporate Communications Dept., CSR Div.
Hitachi High-Tech Corporation (Contact: Masashi Mizutani)
Phone: +81 80 9280 7334

About VLC Photonics S.L.
VLC Photonics S.L. is a photonic design house based in Valencia, Spain, which provides services and turn-key photonic integration solutions towards multiple application fields. It has a wide experience with various material platforms (silicon photonics, indium phosphide, silicon nitride, PLC, polymer) and offers fabless development services for photonic integrated circuits in Telecom/Datacom, microwave photonics, quantum optics, lidar, bio-photonics and optical sensing markets. The company is a spin-off from the Universitat Politècnica de València. To learn more about VLC Photonics, please visit http://www.vlcphotonics.com/

■ Contact
VLC Photonics S.L. (Contact: Eduardo Selma)
Phone: +34 96 133 78 84

Tigers Jonuzi has recently joined VLC Photonics as a part of the PhD Program promoted by the European Training Network on Post-Digital Computing (Post-Digital). Tigers will work on multi-thread electromagnetic simulation for analog photonic circuits, focusing on the modelling, simulation, design and layout of the analog photonic circuits and in the review of commercial
applications that can benefit from the non-linear analog phenomena implemented in neuromorphic photonic ICs, and in the bare die opto-elerctonic characterization of photonic integrated circuits in manual and semi-automated ways, and the processing of the measurements.

According to the The Community Research and Development Information Service (CORDIS), “the future economic growth in Europe requires engineers and researchers capable to design, develop and implement new information technologies to support explosive data-driven transformation of economy, public and government activities. Current information, computing and processing technologies strongly rely on the classical digital approaches and architectures developed by von Neumann. It is well understood nowadays that brain- or nature-inspired (neuromorphic) technologies can offer substantial advantage in terms of processing capabilities and power efficiency. The development of analog hardware platforms will allow us to achieve significantly higher bandwidth efficiency, faster processing and higher adaptability through integration of self-learning systems. European Training Network on Post-Digital Computing – POSTDIGITAL is an interdisciplinary training network comprising internationally leading teams from academia, research centres and industry, including IBM, Thales and three highly reputed SMEs. POST-DIGITAL will provide a unique training opportunity to a cohort of 15 early stage researchers (ESRs) in the inter-disciplinary fields of emerging disruptive neuromorphic computational technologies and their applications. The strong industrial presence in the network will bridge the gap between early stage innovation and utilization, providing ESRs with the experience of practical applications and solutions beyond traditional digital methods. POST-DIGITAL has the ambition and the vision to create a new generation of scientific and industrial leaders that will greatly contribute to strengthening Europe’s human resources and industry competitiveness in future digital and post digital economy and technology.”

Find out more about this project in the Post-Digital website.