Stuttgart-based Q.ANT has shipped a commercial light-based processor for AI and HPC. Built on thin-film lithium niobate,...

Stuttgart-based Q.ANT has shipped a commercial light-based processor for AI and HPC. Built on thin-film lithium niobate, it does the maths natively in the optical domain — so almost no on-chip heat, and up to 30x the energy efficiency of conventional chips on the same AI workload. It plugs into existing servers via PCIe as a co-processor, and is already running at two of Europe's biggest supercomputing centres. Customer shipments began in 2026. #AI #PhotonicComputing #HPC

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