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NVIDIA and Corning expand US AI infrastructure manufacturing with new optical connectivity investment
NVIDIA and Corning have announced a long-term $ 3.2 billion dollar partnership to expand US manufacturing capacity for AI infrastructure – targeting rising demand for high-speed optical connectivity across hyperscale data centres and AI factories.
Under the agreement, Corning will increase its US optical connectivity manufacturing capacity by 10 times and expand domestic fibre production capacity by more than 50 %. The company will also build three new advanced manufacturing facilities in North Carolina and Texas, creating more than 3,000 high-paying jobs. to transfer data between thousands of GPUs. As AI workloads continue to grow, demand for fibre, photonics and optical connectivity is increasing across the data centre sector.
Jensen Huang, founder and CEO, NVIDIA, said the partnership represented a major opportunity to strengthen American manufacturing while advancing nextgeneration AI infrastructure.
Wendell P. Weeks, Chairman, CEO and President, Corning, said the collaboration demonstrated how AI investment was directly supporting US industrial growth and skilled manufacturing employment. technologies are developed and manufactured in the US.
The companies said modern AI infrastructure increasingly depends on advanced optical systems capable of delivering low latency, high bandwidth and energy-efficient performance at scale. Corning’ s manufacturing expansion is expected to strengthen domestic supply chains for AI infrastructure while supporting future growth in cloud computing, enterprise AI deployments and large-scale Digital Transformation initiatives.
The expanded production capacity will support deployment of NVIDIAaccelerated computing systems that require large-scale optical networking
Corning, known for its low-loss optical fibre technology and glass science expertise, said the partnership would help ensure critical AI infrastructure
J-Squared expands Ottawa campus with Canada’ s only large-format nuclear EMP testing facility
J-Squared Technologies, a global leader in edge computing, has expanded its Ottawa campus with a 26,000-square-foot defence manufacturing and testing facility that includes Canada’ s only large-format NEMP-WM nuclear electromagnetic pulse testing capability and a new secure storage environment for classified projects.
Located in Kanata, the new site strengthens Canada’ s sovereign defence technology infrastructure and supports advanced manufacturing for militarised cabinets, tactical communications systems, specialised servers and custom cable assemblies. The expansion forms part of J-Squared’ s five-phase Secure Innovation Hubs initiative launched in 2023.
The company said the hubs, which span Western Canada, Eastern Canada and the Arctic North, are designed to provide manufacturing, testing and engineering support for start-ups, universities, research organisations and government agencies.
J-Squared said the Ottawa expansion follows a US $ 10 million infrastructure upgrade completed between 2023 and 2025 at its ESL Labs subsidiary in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
CEO Jeff Gibson said sustained investment in Canadian talent and infrastructure was essential to supporting
Department of National Defence programmes and strengthening the domestic military technology supply chain.
The facility was officially unveiled during a private event in May 2026 attended by partners including L3Harris, Lockheed Martin Canada, Hanwha Ocean, IBM Defence and Landing Zones.
J-Squared develops edge computing and tactical systems for land, sea, air and space platforms including UAVs, autonomous vehicles and naval combat systems.
Company executives said the new capabilities would accelerate secure prototyping, environmental testing and deployment readiness for next-generation ISR, navigation, weapons guidance and sensor fusion technologies supporting multi-domain defence operations across military programmes. www. intelligentcio. com
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