Akhetonics
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.
- Artificial Intelligence
- Hardware
- Quantum Computing
Funding
Raised to date
$8.8MRaised 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.
across 2 rounds
4CCC+4$6.3M · Seed
Announced Nov 2024
Disclosed cumulative: $8.8M
Founders
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