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Kaiam Corporation was an American manufacturer of optronics equipment for computer networking. Founded in 2009, it was headquartered in Newark, California, and until December 2018 had a manufacturing facility in Silicon Glen in Scotland. The CEO was Dr. Bardia Pezeshki.

Products

Kaiam manufactures MEMS systems to link servers using optical connections.[1] The company uses micromachined silicon;[2] in March 2016 it demonstrated the CWDM4, a 100 Gigabit-per-second coarse wavelength division multiplexing (CWDM) silicon photonics transceiver using silicon modules and receivers.[3]

History

The company was founded in 2009[4] by Pezeshki, an Iranian native[5] who had previously founded Santur Corporation.[6] It initially produced TOSA/ROSAs (transmitter optical subassemblies and receiver optical subassemblies).[7]

In April 2013 it acquired Gemfire Corp.,[8] and in 2014, with a grant from Scottish Enterprise, moved production from China to Gemfire's wafer fabrication plant in Livingston, West Lothian,[5][9][10] which had been built in the late 1990s by Kymata, a company spun off from research at Glasgow University and Southampton University, to produce photonic integrated circuits.[1] Pezeshki relocated to Edinburgh in 2015 to explore relocating the company's research and development program to Scotland.[1] At the plant Kaiam produced integrated optical components on a 200mm-diameter wafer silica-on-silicon line, and also 40Gb/s and 100Gb/s optical packaging products.[11]

In April 2017, Kaiam bought a wafer fabrication facility in Newton Aycliffe in England from Compound Photonics Group;[11] it resold the plant to II-VI Inc. in August that year.[12][13] In May 2018, the company signed a memorandum of understanding with Broadex Technologies Co. for co-manufacturing of transceivers based on its LightScale2 platform for the Chinese market.[14]

The company was unable to secure enough orders to sustain full production at its facility in Scotland, and was seeking a financial partner in December 2018.[15] Shortly before Christmas, 310 workers at the plant were laid off with no notice and before receiving their end of year pay.[10][16] Companies House had issued a striking-off order on November 27.[17][18] Pezeshki visited the plant immediately before workers were informed that the factory would be closed until January 3;[9][13][17] the company's subsidiaries Kaiam Europe Limited and Kaiam UK Limited were placed in administration.[13][19] The redundancies were then made permanent on Christmas Eve; 28 employees were retained to assist with selling the plant.[20][21] Crowdfunding and in-kind donations were organized to assist those laid off.[13][17][18][22][23]

References

1. ^1 2 {{cite news |author=Simon Bain |url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/business_hq/14127727.Kaiam_founder_targets_Scottish_research_base/ |title=Kaiam founder targets Scottish research base |newspaper=The Herald |date=December 6, 2015 }}
2. ^{{cite journal |author=Karen Liu |url=http://www.spie.org/newsroom/5797-integrated-multi-wavelength-transmitters-for-parallelism-in-single-mode-high-speed-optics?highlight=x2414&ArticleID=x113405&SSO=1 |title=Integrated multi-wavelength transmitters for parallelism in single-mode, high-speed optics |journal=SPIE Newsroom |date=April 17, 2015 |doi=10.1117/2.1201504.005797 }}
3. ^{{cite web |author=Michael D. Wheeler |url=https://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=60862 |title=Integrated Photonics: A Tale of Two Materials |website=Photonics Media |date=August 2016 }}
4. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapid=100257403 |title=Company Overview of Kaiam Corporation |publisher=Bloomberg |accessdate=December 26, 2018 }}
5. ^1 {{cite news |author=Debbie Hall |url=https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/twenty-jobs-axed-kaiam-corporation-4791086 |title=Twenty jobs axed at Kaiam Corporation in Livingston |newspaper=Daily Record |date=December 11, 2014 }}
6. ^{{cite web |url=http://kaiam.com/?page_id=5895 |title=Management |publisher=Kaiam |accessdate=December 26, 2018 }}
7. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.lightreading.com/optical/optical-components/kaiam-shows-40g-tosa-rosa/d/d-id/684749 |title=Kaiam Shows 40G TOSA/ROSA |website=Light Reading |date=March 4, 2011 }}
8. ^{{cite news |url=https://www.lightwaveonline.com/articles/2013/03/kaiam-to-acquire-gemfire-assets.html |title=Kaiam to acquire Gemfire assets |website=Lightwave |date=March 20, 2013 }}
9. ^1 {{cite news |author=Jamie McKenzie |url=https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/business/kaiam-boss-accused-of-unspeakable-act-of-cowardice-as-livingston-workers-not-paid-christmas-wage-1-4847480 |title=Kaiam boss accused of 'unspeakable act of cowardice' as Livingston workers not paid Christmas wage |newspaper=Edinburgh Evening News |date=December 21, 2018 }}
10. ^1 {{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-46648290 |title=Christmas wages not paid at West Lothian computer firm |publisher=BBC News |date=December 21, 2018 }}
11. ^1 {{cite news |author=Peter Clarke |url=http://www.eenewsanalog.com/news/kaiam-buys-uk-wafer-fab-make-photonic-ics-0 |title=Kaiam buys UK wafer fab to make photonic ICs |website=EE News Analog |date=April 4, 2017 }}
12. ^{{cite news |url=http://www.semiconductor-today.com/news_items/2017/aug/iivi_070817 |website=Semiconductor Today |title=II-VI Inc buys Kaiam’s 6” fab in UK for $80m |date=August 7, 2017 }}
13. ^1 2 3 {{cite news |author=Sebastian Moss |url=https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/news/kaiams-european-operations-go-administration-factory-closed/ |title=Kaiam's European operations go into administration, factory closed |website=Data Centre Dynamics |date=January 4, 2019 }}
14. ^{{cite news |url=http://www.semiconductor-today.com/news_items/2018/may/kaiam_180518.shtml |title=Kaiam partners with Broadex for manufacturing and supply of transceiver modules in China |website=Semiconductor Today |date=May 18, 2018 }}
15. ^{{cite news |author=Stephen Hardy |url=https://www.lightwaveonline.com/articles/2019/01/kaiam-seeks-alternatives-as-uk-operations-go-into-administration.html |title=Kaiam explores alternatives as UK operations go into administration |newspaper=Lightwave |date=January 3, 2019 }}
16. ^{{cite news |url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/17314602.kaiam-factory-in-livingston-announce-they-unable-to-pay-workers-wages-days-before-christmas/ |title=Kaiam factory in Livingston announce they 'unable to pay workers wages' days before Christmas |newspaper=The Herald |date=December 21, 2018 }}
17. ^1 2 {{cite news |author=Andy Shipley |url=https://www.scotsman.com/news/kaiam-boss-dances-at-xmas-party-before-jetting-off-to-us-as-firm-fails-1-4848205 |title=Kaiam boss dances at Xmas party before jetting off to US as firm fails |newspaper=The Scotsman |date=December 23, 2018 }}
18. ^1 {{cite news |author=Andy Shipley |url=https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/business/confusion-reigns-over-phantom-kaiam-pay-1-4848979 |title=Confusion reigns over 'phantom' Kaiam pay |newspaper=Edinburgh Evening News |date=December 27, 2018 }}
19. ^{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-46659356 |title=Administrators appointed at computer firm Kaiam |publisher=BBC News |date=December 22, 2018 }}
20. ^{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-46659361 |title=Livingston computer factory lays off 310 workers |publisher=BBC News |date=24 December 2018 }}
21. ^{{cite news |url=https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/business/over-300-kaiam-staff-lose-their-jobs-on-christmas-eve-1-4848561 |title=Over 300 Kaiam staff lose their jobs on Christmas Eve |newspaper=Edinburgh Evening News |date=December 24, 2018 }}
22. ^{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-46681480 |title=Thousands raised for workers laid off from Kaiam factory |publisher=BBC News |date=December 25, 2018 }}
23. ^{{cite news |author=Rebecca Parker |url=https://www.scotsman.com/livingston/kaiam-crisis-livingston-fc-donate-food-vouchers-and-match-tickets-to-workers-1-4848628 |title=Kaiam crisis: Livingston FC donate food vouchers and match tickets to workers |newspaper=The Scotsman |date=December 25, 2018 }}

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