Tower Semiconductor Teams up with Oriole to Advance AI Infrastructure and Networking with Nanosecond Optical Circuit Switching

Tower's advanced silicon photonics platform enables optical networking innovation with high-speed optical circuit switching and transceivers for AI infrastructure MIGDAL HAEMEK, Israel, and Palo Alto, March 16, 2026 - Tower Semiconductor (NASDAQ/TASE: TSEM), the leading foundry for high-value analog semiconductor solutions, and Oriole Networks, developer of the PRISM (Photonic Routing Infrastructure for Scalable Models) and PRISM Ultra networking platforms, today announced their collaboration to deliver ultra-low, deterministic-latency networking for scale-up and scale-out AI architectures, built on Tower's mature silicon photonics platform.