photonics Archives - High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC https://insidehpc.com/tag/photonics/ At the Convergence of HPC, AI and Quantum Tue, 30 Apr 2024 20:49:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 57143778 IEEE Electronic Components and Technology Conference, May 28-31 in Denver https://insidehpc.com/2024/04/ieee-electronic-components-and-technology-conference-may-28-31-in-denver/ https://insidehpc.com/2024/04/ieee-electronic-components-and-technology-conference-may-28-31-in-denver/#respond Tue, 30 Apr 2024 20:49:24 +0000 https://insidehpc.com/?p=93955

DENVER (April 30, 2024) – The forum for microelectronics packaging and component science and technology, the 74th annual IEEE Electronic Components and Technology Conference (ECTC), will take place from Tuesday to Friday, May 28-31, 2024 at Denver’s Gaylord Rockies Resort & Convention Center, with more than 1,500 scientists, engineers and businesspeople from more than 20 […]

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]]> https://insidehpc.com/2024/04/ieee-electronic-components-and-technology-conference-may-28-31-in-denver/feed/ 0 93955 NTT: Photonics Network Connects Data Centers in U.S. and U.K. https://insidehpc.com/2024/04/ntt-photonics-network-connects-data-centers-in-u-s-and-u-k/ Thu, 11 Apr 2024 19:15:18 +0000 https://insidehpc.com/?p=93829

NTT Corporation (NTT) and NTT DATA announced the successful demonstration of All-Photonics Network (APN)-driven connections between data centers in the United States and the United Kingdom. In the U.K., NTT connected data centers north and east of London....

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]]> 93829 HPC News Bytes 20240219: AI Safety and Governance, Running CUDA Apps on ROCm, DOE’s SLATE, New Advanced Chips https://insidehpc.com/2024/02/hpc-news-bytes-20240219-ai-safety-and-governance-running-cuda-apps-on-rocm-does-slate-new-advanced-chips/ Mon, 19 Feb 2024 11:51:58 +0000 https://insidehpc.com/?p=93484

Happy President’s Day morning to everyone! Today’s HPC News Bytes races (6:22) around the HPC-AI landscape with comments on: developments in AI security and governance, running CUDA (NVIDIA) apps on ROCm (AMD), DOE’s Exascale Software Linear....

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]]> 93484 Lightmatter Announces $155M Funding Round, Expands Photonic Chip Deployments https://insidehpc.com/2023/12/lightmatter-announces-155m-funding-round-expands-photonic-chip-deployments/ Thu, 21 Dec 2023 16:58:37 +0000 https://insidehpc.com/?p=93134

December 19, 2023, BOSTON — Photonics company Lightmatter announced it has raised a $155M Series C-2 led by GV (Google Ventures) and Viking Global Investors, with participation from others. With this round, Lightmatter has raised over $420 million to date and is now valued at over $1.2B. This new financing allows the company to expedite growth […]

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]]> 93134 Lightelligence Announces Optical Network-on-Chip Processor https://insidehpc.com/2023/06/lightelligence-announces-optical-network-on-chip-processor/ Thu, 29 Jun 2023 15:18:02 +0000 https://insidehpc.com/?p=91864

Boston –– June 28, 2023 –– Photonic computing company Lightelligence has introduced Hummingbird, an optical network-on-chip (oNOC) processor designed for domain-specific AI workloads. Lightelligence said Hummingbird utilizes vertically stacked packaging technologies to integrate a photonic chip and an electronic chip into a single package serving as the communications network for data centers and other high-performance […]

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]]> 91864 Photonics Compute and Interconnect Startup Lightmatter Raises $154M Series C Funding, Targets HPC and AI Workloads https://insidehpc.com/2023/06/photonics-compute-and-interconnect-startup-lightmatter-raises-154m-series-c-funding-targets-hpc-and-ai-workloads/ Thu, 01 Jun 2023 17:50:33 +0000 https://insidehpc.com/?p=91689

BOSTON – Photonics computing company Lightmatter announced it has raised $154 million in a Series C investment round, bringing to $270 million that the company has raised. Participants in this latest round are SIP Global, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Viking Global Investors, GV (Google Ventures), HPE Pathfinder and existing investors. The company said it will […]

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]]> 91689 Photonics Company Lightmatter Names Google TPU Engineer Richard Ho VP of Hardware Engineering https://insidehpc.com/2022/08/photonics-company-lightmatter-names-google-tpu-engineer-richard-ho-vp-of-hardware-engineering/ Tue, 23 Aug 2022 17:47:39 +0000 https://insidehpc.com/?p=90056

BOSTON — Photonics company Lightmatter has named Richard Ho its new Vice President of Hardware Engineering. Ho spent nearly nine years at Google leading the Cloud Tensor Processing Units (TPU) project. At Lightmatter, Ho will spearhead Lightmatter’s chip engineering division with focus on developing and deploying Lightmatter’s photonic AI accelerator and wafer-scale interconnect, designed for […]

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]]> 90056 LLNL Entrepreneur Hall of Fame Inducts 1 Current, 2 Former Lab Scientists https://insidehpc.com/2022/03/llnl-entrepreneur-hall-of-fame-inducts-1-current-2-former-lab-scientists/ Tue, 29 Mar 2022 20:31:30 +0000 https://insidehpc.com/?p=89364 One current and two former Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists have been inducted into the Laboratory’s Entrepreneurs’ Hall of Fame (EHF). The trio, who represent the third class of inductees into the Lab’s EHF, have been honored for developing technologies during or after their lab careers that created major economic impacts or spawned new […]

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]]> 89364 Canadian Start-Ups Receive US Air Force Grant to Investigate Platforms for Quantum Information https://insidehpc.com/2022/03/canadian-start-ups-receive-us-air-force-grant-to-investigate-platforms-for-quantum-information/ Thu, 10 Mar 2022 13:00:34 +0000 https://insidehpc.com/?p=89241 Montreal, March 10, 2022 – A recently awarded grant of $450,000 USD from the US Air Force Research Laboratory’s basic research office, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) will enable two Canadian start-ups, Ki3 Photonics and Quantum Bridge Technologies, to explore highly-entangled states of light towards cutting-edge functionalities in telecommunications and computing. “We’re […]

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]]> 89241 Overcoming Bandwidth and Capacity Bottlenecks in the Exascale Era https://insidehpc.com/2021/10/overcoming-bandwidth-and-capacity-bottlenecks-in-the-exascale-era/ Thu, 21 Oct 2021 17:29:28 +0000 https://insidehpc.com/?p=88562

[SPONSORED POST] Join us for the Advanced Memory Architectures to Overcome Bandwidth Bottlenecks for the Exascale Era of Computing webinar on November 10 at 9:00 am PT. During this webinar, leading industry experts will discuss the future of advanced memory architectures, new optical I/O solutions using silicon photonics, and the technologies and environments needed to make next-generation performance a reality.

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