About Luminous Computing
Luminous Computing was a start-up founded in 2018 to build AI hardware that uses light to link and compute across many chips. Photonic links move data as optical signals, which can use less energy over distance than copper wiring. The company described its aim as a photonic AI supercomputer, and it is listed as based in Palo Alto, California. Its current operating status could not be confirmed.
Luminous Computing was founded in 2018 and is based in Palo Alto, CA, United States. It is listed under Photonic Computing, AI Accelerators.
Compute Technologies
- Photonics
- AI Accelerators
What Luminous Computing works on
Photonic Computing
Photonic computing uses light instead of electricity to carry or process information. Photons have no charge, so light in a waveguide does not cause the resistive heating that current in a wire does, though lasers and modulators still use power, and many wavelengths can share one waveguide. The industry has two quite different parts: moving data with light, and computing with light.
AI Accelerators
An AI accelerator is a chip, or a part of a chip, designed to run machine learning faster or with less energy than a general-purpose processor. The category includes GPUs, TPUs, neural processing units (NPUs) and chips from many startups.
Also in United States
Neurophos, Broadcom, Marvell Technology, Oxmiq Labs, Lemurian Labs
