• Applied Optoelectronics plans to add two adjacent buildings in Pearland, Texas, adding about 388,000 square feet of manufacturing capacity.
• Houston-area footprint is set to reach about 900,000 square feet, building on a 210,000-square-foot facility under development near Sugar Land.
• Expansion also adds to existing capacity at Sugar Land headquarters, where AOI operates 135,000 square feet.
• AOI recently leased a 154,000-square-foot building at Blue Ridge Commerce Center as part of the scale-up.
• Company targets output capacity of up to 700,000 units of 800G and 1.6T transceivers per month in Houston area, with laser fabrication capacity expected to rise about 350% by end of 2027.

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