Photonic processor promises 30x energy efficiency improvements
Dr. Michael Förtsch, CEO of Q.ANT, discusses the company's first commercial product - a photonics-based Native Processing Unit (NPU) built on the its compute architecture LENA - Light Empowered Native Arithmetics. The Q.ANT NPU executes complex, non-linear mathematics natively using light instead of electrons, promising to deliver at least 30 times greater energy efficiency and significant computational speed improvements over traditional CMOS technology.
0:00 / 0:00
Recent Interviews
Photonic processor promises 30x energy efficiency improvements
Dr. Michael Förtsch, CEO of Q.ANT, discusses the company's first commercial product - a photonics-based Native Processing Unit (NPU) built on the its compute architecture LENA - Light Empowered Native Arithmetics. The Q.ANT NPU executes complex, non-linear mathematics natively using light instead of electrons, promising to deliver at least 30 times greater energy efficiency and significant computational speed improvements over traditional CMOS technology.
POET Technologies plans to ‘semiconductorise’ photonics
Dr. Suresh Venkatesan, Chairman and CEO, POET Technologies, shares the company’s vision to semiconductorise photonics by integrating electronic and photonic components on the POET optical interposer to enable wafer-scale assembly – high volumes at a much faster pace and in a cost-efficient manner. Suresh explains the innovative and scalable platform solution that POET has developed with a particular focus on the role interconnect technology is playing to meet the growing demand of AI in the data centre.
Accelerating the photonic chip market in North America
Jorn Smeets, Managing Director North America at PhotonDelta, the Dutch photoinic chip accelerator, explains the reasons behind the opening of a new San Franciso-based North America office, as part of an ongoing strategy to help grow the global photonic chip, or PIC, industry. Jorn shares his thoughts as to how collaboration between Europe and the US will help to develop a unified photonic chip industry, best placed to meet the challenges and opportunities which lie ahead across many applications, with the industry predicted to reach a $30 billion value by 2030.
