Is computing the wrong focus? Lightmatter's 3D photonics tackles AI's data bottleneck

Levi Li

, DIGITIMES Asia, Taipei

Jul 21, 2025, 14:58 0

Credit: Lightmatter

As AI workloads hit data movement bottlenecks, MIT spinoff Lightmatter is betting that photonics, not more transistors, holds the key to next-generation infrastructure. After years of pioneering photonic computing, Lightmatter is moving from research to...

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