Q/C Technologies teams with Sandia National Labs on nanophotonics research for optical AI inference chip
QCLS•Q/C Technologies entered a research collaboration with Sandia National Laboratories’ Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies to advance its optical processing unit for AI inference. The work targets nanophotonic components and requirements for scalable optical AI hardware.
1. Research collaboration
Q/C Technologies and Sandia National Laboratories’ Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies will work on nanophotonic components needed for scalable optical AI hardware, focusing on device and architecture requirements.
2. Project goals
The project aims to validate a roadmap beyond incremental GPU scaling and address nonlinear operations, memory, precision, optical loss and integration with electronics.
