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Lightmatter develops photonic computing and optical interconnect technologies designed to address bandwidth, power, and scaling challenges in AI infrastructure. The company combines silicon photonics, optical networking, and advanced packaging technologies to enable high-performance communication between AI accelerators, memory, and compute clusters.
| Headquarters | Mountain View, California |
| CEO | Nick Harris |
| Founded | 2017 |
| Primary Focus | Silicon Photonics, Optical Interconnects, AI Infrastructure, Photonic Computing |
| Key Platforms | Passage™, Envise™, Photonic Superchips, Optical Interconnect Fabric |
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Steve Klinger, VP of Product at Lightmatter, presents the company’s optical scale-up interconnect approach for AI systems. The video highlights the Passage EVK50 platform,…
Lightmatter introduced its Passage L20 optical engine, targeting high-density optical interconnects for AI data centers as bandwidth requirements push beyond the limits of electrical…
Lightmatter introduced its Passage L20 optical engine, targeting high-density optical interconnects for AI data centers as bandwidth requirements push beyond the limits of electrical…
Lightmatter introduced vClick Optics, a detachable fiber array unit for co-packaged optics that targets one of the toughest manufacturing problems in advanced AI packages:…
Lightmatter introduced the Passage L20 optical engine, a 6.4 Tbps (per direction) photonic module designed to accelerate deployment of high-bandwidth optical interconnects for next-generation…
Lightmatter announced the successful sampling of its Passage™ co-packaged optics (CPO) chiplet, demonstrating a record 1.6 Tbps throughput per fiber for AI interconnects. The…
Lightmatter and Synopsys announced a collaboration to integrate Synopsys’ 224G SerDes and UCIe IP, qualified for a 3nm process, into Lightmatter’s Passage 3D co-packaged optics (CPO) platform.…
Lightmatter announced a technical collaboration with Cadence to develop co-packaged optics (CPO) solutions that combine Cadence’s silicon-proven high-speed SerDes and UCIe IP with Lightmatter’s Passage optical engine.…
Lightmatter and Global Unichip Corp. (GUC) announced a strategic partnership to bring commercial Passage 3D co-packaged optics (CPO) solutions to market for hyperscale AI and high-performance computing…
Lightmatter introduced the Guide light engine, built on its new Very Large Scale Photonics (VLSP) laser architecture, targeting the next phase of co-packaged optics (CPO)…
At the PIC Summit, Nick Harris, founder and CEO of Lightmatter, delivered a keynote built around a clear conclusion: the next major order-of-magnitude gains…
At last week’s Optica Photonic-Enabled Cloud Computing (PECC) Summit, Darius Bunandar, Founder and Chief Scientist at Lightmatter, described how 3D photonic integration will redefine the…
Lightmatter CEO Nick Harris took the stage at the AI Infrastructure Summit in Santa Clara to argue that the next 1000X leap in AI…
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