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Scale-Up is a Problem Made for Photonics
NVIDIA’s announcement at GTC Taipei 2026 that NVLink Fusion will extend to photonic interconnects marks a pivotal moment where AI infrastructure scaling meets the…
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Wide and Parallel Wins
DWDM is the Future of Scale-Up Networking By Nick Harris, Founder and CEO, Lightmatter Last week, the Optical Compute Interconnect (OCI) Multi-Source…
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Building out the Photonic Stack
The fundamental architecture of computers is changing. In a previous post, I wrote about how we’re approaching the final process node—how Moore’s…
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Seeing is Believing: A Technical Deep Dive into Lightmatter’s Hardware
It’s been a busy summer at Lightmatter. For the last four months, we have been demonstrating our production-ready Passage™ 3D photonic interconnect hardware…
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Doubling Down: World’s First 16-λ Single Fiber Bidirectional Link for AI
The computational needs of Artificial Intelligence (AI) have pushed hardware to its absolute limits. One of the most significant bottlenecks in building a massive,…
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A New Kind of Computer
Foreword: This blog post outlines our breakthrough photonic AI acceleration research. This body of work is essential for the future of computing and as…
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Lightmatter and GlobalFoundries® Partner to Mass Produce Passage™ Platform
Accelerating AI with World’s Fastest Silicon Photonics Interconnect We’re excited to share that we’re partnering with GlobalFoundries to mass produce Passage™, our groundbreaking…
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Interconnect Is All You Need: Final Nodes, Big Chips, and Photonics
Humanity’s progress has always paralleled advances in computing. From the abacus to the modern computer, each leap forward has not only improved our capabilities…