Startup Claims Light-Based Chip Could Deliver 10x Nvidia's Performance at Similar Power

Startup claims light-based chip could deliver 10x Nvidia's performance at similar power

The concept centers on an optical processing unit – a chip that performs calculations using light rather than electrons. Neurophos says its technology could reach 470 petaFLOPS of FP4/INT4 compute, roughly ten times the performance of Nvidia's latest Rubin GPUs, while drawing similar power. For an industry straining against the...Read Entire Article

Inside the Optical Computing Startup That's Giving NVIDIA Sleepless Nights

A silicon photonics startup backed by Bill Gates’s Gates Frontier fund has revealed optical transistor technology that is 10,000 times smaller than conventional electronic transistors. This technology comes alongside optical chips capable of executing large matrix computations, which is a fundamental requirement of modern AI models. The company, Neurophos, aims to harness the speed and […] The post Inside the Optical Computing Startup That’s Giv…

Photonic chip vendor snags Gates investment

Neurophos has landed another $110 million in funding from investors including Gates Frontier, Bill Gates’ venture capital outfit, to move its photonic chips nearer to production. The growing use of AI has led to increasing demands on computational power within data centers. Traditional silicon-based processors are struggling to meet these demands, leading to limitations on performance at the same time as increased energy consumption. The optical…

Bill Gates-backed silicon photonics startup develops optical transistors 10,000x smaller than current tech — optical chip can process 1,000 x 1,000 multiplication matrices

Neurophos built a silicon photonics chip that's 10,000 smaller than current tech and could potentially deliver 10x the performance of Nivida's Vera Rubin GPUs using the same amount of power and available chip fab technologies.