Akhetonics develops an all-optical XPU, a general-purpose processor designed for ultra-low power, high-performance computing and AI applications. This platform integrates digital, analog, and quantum computing within a single photonics architecture, eliminating electronic conversion for data processing. The resulting processors offer significant speed and efficiency advantages by operating data entirely in the optical domain at THz clock speeds.
Funding
$8.8M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Product
Problem
Traditional processors face limitations in power consumption and speed due to the constant conversion between electronic and optical signals, hindering performance in high-performance computing and AI applications. Existing von Neumann architectures struggle to efficiently handle the increasing demands of complex computations.
Solution
Akhetonics is developing an all-optical XPU, a general-purpose photonic processor that maintains data in the optical domain throughout processing, eliminating the need for electronic signal conversion. This cross-domain processor uniquely combines optical digital, analog, and quantum computing capabilities on a single platform, surpassing the limitations of traditional architectures. By using a purely European supply chain, Akhetonics ensures unmatched security in the high-performance computing domain. The all-optical approach enables ultra-low power consumption and high-speed data processing, making it suitable for deployment in diverse environments.
Target Audience
The primary target audience includes organizations requiring high-performance, low-power computing solutions for AI, data centers, edge computing, and other computationally intensive applications.
Features
- All-optical data interface for seamless optical data input and output, eliminating electronic conversion bottlenecks
- Cross-domain processor (XPU) managing data flow between memory, network, and Radio Frequency Units (RFUs)
- Volatile and non-volatile optical memory for local processing, code storage, and large datasets
- Dynamically combinable RFUs for specialized optical acceleration of digital, analog, or quantum operations
- Optical nonlinearities enabling complex operations within a photonic integrated circuit (PIC)
- Components such as an all-optical analog-digital converter (ADC)
- Potential for THz clocking speeds, significantly faster than traditional GHz electronic processors
- Scalable bandwidth through multiplexing, enabling petabit-level data transmission