BlockBeats News, June 11th, "White Hair Stock God" Serenity posted stating that X-FAB Silicon Foundries SE (XFAB) is building Silicon Photonics foundry alternative capabilities, seen by some market participants as a potential long-term competitor to Tower Semiconductor and GlobalFoundries, and may be involved in Europe's layout in the CPO and photonics chip supply chain.

X-FAB has currently received some level of European industry support and has a certain association with NVIDIA's technology assessment system. Its development direction is interpreted as part of Europe's drive to advance packaging and silicon photonics supply chain independence.

In terms of timeline, the statement indicates that the project's R&D is still in the early stages, with development work expected to continue until around October 2026, then entering a gradual production ramp-up phase in 2027, and may only enter a larger-scale production phase around 2028, with its R&D starting point roughly traceable back to 2023.

Currently, the market generally still perceives it as a traditional industrial or automotive supply chain-related company. However, some believe that its potential long-term value in silicon photonics and CPO directions has not yet been fully priced in. Nevertheless, this logic still heavily relies on the actual progress of future technology commercialization, overall still in the early expectation-driven narrative, with high uncertainty.