Coherent (COHR)

Manufactures optical components, lasers, and transceivers for AI clusters.

networkingoptics website ↗ AI Adjacency 33/100 Confidence 88%

United States · ticker COHR
Updated 2026-09-09· researched 2026-09-09· next review 2026-09-20· listed 2026-09-09
⚠ research overdue — re-review queued

Why it matters to AI

Coherent operates within the AI industrial ecosystem across networking, optics. Its role sits downstream of 2 entities that depend on it and upstream of 1 dependencies.

AI Dependency Map

SUPPLIES nvidia 0 src · 75%

AI Impact Map

lumentum COMPETES_WITH 0 src · 80%
applied-optoelectronics COMPETES_WITH 0 src · 70%

Customers & Partners

nvidia customer

Research

OpenAI research lab

Ecosystem Map

Neighborhood grouped by layer — click any node to explore. Depth:

suppliessuppliessuppliesdepends oncompetes withmanufacturesCoherentcomputeNVIDIA H100NVIDIA H100 (product)AMDAMD (company)NVIDIANVIDIA (company)semiconductorsTSMCTSMC (company)cloudMicrosoftMicrosoft (company)ai infrastructure softwareOpenAIOpenAI (research_lab)

If Coherent disappeared

Criticality 36/100 (calculated v1 — downstream reach, substitutes, concentration, geography, uniqueness). Impact analysis →

Timeline

View as of:
criticality_score changed 2026-09-13
null → 36
ai_adjacency_score changed 2026-09-13
31 → 33
ai_adjacency_score changed 2026-09-13
29 → 31
ai_adjacency_score changed 2026-09-13
27 → 29
ai_adjacency_score changed 2026-09-13
76 → 27

Machine-readable

coherent.json · full · coherent/ld.json