Q/C Technologies teams with Sandia National Labs on nanophotonics research for optical AI inference chip

• Q/C Technologies entered a research collaboration with Sandia National Laboratories’ Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies to advance its optical processing unit for AI inference.
• Joint work targets nanophotonic components needed for scalable optical AI hardware, focusing on key device and architecture requirements.
• Project aims to validate a roadmap beyond incremental GPU scaling, addressing nonlinear operations, memory, precision, optical loss, integration with electronics.
• Sandia employs about 17,000 staff, runs on an annual budget of about USD 5 billion, operates under the DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration.

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