Lightmatter Introduces Optical Processor to Speed Compute for Next-Generation Artificial Intelligence
Lightmatter, a leader in silicon photonics processors, today announces its artificial intelligence (AI) photonic processor, a general-purpose AI inference accelerator that uses light to compute and transport data.
- Lightmatter, a leader in silicon photonics processors, today announces its artificial intelligence (AI) photonic processor, a general-purpose AI inference accelerator that uses light to compute and transport data.
- Using light to calculate and communicate within the chip reduces heatleading to orders of magnitude reduction in energy consumption per chip and dramatic improvements in processor speed.
- On August 18th, Lightmatters VP of Engineering, Carl Ramey, will present their photonic processor architecture at HotChips32.
- Lightmatters photonic processor runs standard machine learning frameworks including PyTorch and TensorFlow, enabling state-of-the-art AI algorithms.