HyperLight Corporation, United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC), and Wavetek Microelectronics Corporation, a wholly owned UMC subsidiary, have announced a strategic manufacturing partnership to deliver high-volume foundry production of HyperLight’s thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) chiplet platform on both 6-inch and 8-inch wafers. The companies said the collaboration is intended to provide the manufacturing capacity needed to deploy AI and cloud infrastructure at scale.