Sofradir, a leading developer, and manufacturer of key classes of advanced infrared (IR) detectors has recently unveiled its first supersize near infrared detector in 15-micron pitch. Labeled as the ALFA, the detector is a 2048x 2048 15µm pixel switch SWIR unit. This supersize detector is being designed to meet new performance needs for future ESA scientific space missions and for instruments used in state-of-the-art Extremely Large Telescopes (ELT) for ground observation so as to tackle major scientific challenges. The ALFA 2Kx2K (Astronomy Large Focal Array) 15µm pitch short-wave infrared detector will render the highest levels of performance in Quantum Efficiency (QE), dark current, and noise.