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Aeluma
Aeluma is a small Goleta, California, semiconductor company that grows compound-semiconductor materials on large, CMOS-compatible wafers to make photodetectors, quantum dot lasers and related chips for data-center, defense, aerospace, consumer and quantum uses.
Aeluma is a small Goleta, California, semiconductor company that grows compound-semiconductor materials on large, CMOS-compatible wafers to make photodetectors, quantum dot lasers and related chips for data-center, defense, aerospace, consumer and quantum uses.
It is aiming its high-speed photodetectors and quantum dot lasers at AI data-center optics, but it is early-stage: FY2026 revenue was about $4.5 million, largely from development work, and its AI datacom customers were still at the engineering-negotiation stage.
Earns revenue from government and commercial development contracts and engineering work, with the aim of selling photonic chips and wafers in volume.
United States (Goleta, California)
AI chips and networking. The companies designing the processors, accelerators and networking equipment that do the actual computing behind AI, including GPUs like NVIDIA's, and the high-speed connections that link thousands of them together.
Connections (2)
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Dated or announced (1)
Source: 2026-09-16 · reviewed 2026-10-02
Evidence: Primary-source statement · Announced; not confirmed operating
Limits: One-line mention in Aeluma's own results release; does not describe the scope, terms, volumes or status of the Tower partnership, and Tower's own statement was not reviewed.
Aeluma Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Fiscal Year 2026 Financial Results ↗Comparisons (1)
Source: 2026-09-16 · reviewed 2026-10-02
Evidence: Analytical comparison · Product/market overlap (Aeluma pre-volume)
Limits: Editorial comparison; the cited Aeluma release does not name Lumentum, Aeluma is pre-volume, and this does not establish any customer contest or market share. The cited source describes only Aeluma's products; the overlap with Lumentum is an editorial comparison not stated in the source.
Aeluma Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Fiscal Year 2026 Financial Results ↗Aeluma Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Fiscal Year 2026 Financial Results ↗
Reviewed
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