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