Anyone else following Q.ANT's photonic GPU advancements? Tech shifting point

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Q.ANT has opened a US facility in Austin and appointed Bruno Spruth as CTO, highlighting production of photonic GPUs at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre that claim significant performance and energy efficiency gains over traditional transistor-based chips.

Has anyone been paying attention to the latest developments? Q.ANT just opened shop in Austin a few weeks ago with Bruno Spruth (IBM) as CTO. There are massive shifts happening in GPU architecture, away from transistor based design, and on to photonic architecture. They've long surpassed the PoC phase, and have been in production for a few months now at The Leibniz Supercomputing Centre in Garching/Munich. That generation of their photonic GPU performance is 50x that of their transistor/chip/wafer manufactured equivalent. The energy efficiency is also 30x that of their transistor based counterpart. Gen 2, which looks to be currently available to order, is at 100x and 90x respectively as performance/load capability and energy efficiency. Because it's using light instead of electricity. The same thing that happened with fiber optic internet vs aDSL. Light vs electron. I think it's about to get very interesting... https://qant.com/press-releases/q-ant-brings-commercial-photonic-computing-to-the-united-states-appoints-bruno-spruth-as-cto/
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