Lightmatter

Lightmatter is a company that develops specialized chips and chip communication technology, called interconnects, using photonics. By leveraging light for data processing and communication, Lightmatter aims to improve computational power while reducing energy consumption, particularly for AI workloads and data-intensive applications. Lightmatter’s CEO, Nicholas Harris, has stated that “over the next few years, all of the GPUs in the world that are designed for AI training and inference… are going to be built on Lightmatter’s Passage”, its photonic interconnect product to improve data center scale-out while reducing energy requirements otherwise impossible with conventional interconnect technologies.