Photonic ComputingInterconnect & Networking
Nubis (Ciena)
New Providence, United States, United States
About Nubis (Ciena)
Nubis develops optical interconnect technology, which uses light rather than copper wires to move data between chips inside AI data centres. Moving data at high speed and low power is a growing limit on how large AI clusters can be built, and optical engines placed close to the processor aim to ease it. Nubis was acquired by Ciena, a maker of optical networking equipment, in 2025. The headquarters and founding year in this record could not be confirmed.
Nubis (Ciena) was founded in 2020 and is based in New Providence, United States. It is listed under Photonic Computing, Interconnect & Networking.
Compute Technologies
- Photonics
What Nubis (Ciena) 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.
Interconnect & Networking
Interconnect is the set of links that move data between chips, between boards and between racks. It includes wires on a package, cables inside a server, and the network switches and optical fibre across a data center. A processor is only as useful as the speed at which it can get data in and out.
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