Post #1758729
2026-04-28 21:59 UTC
@virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca @devsimsek@universeodon.com This is the company, however there's not much on their web site. I believe I saw a youtube video explaining its operation. The gist was that the major roadblock was analog to digital conversion to utilize memory. Apologies my memory of the details is vague. https://qant.com/photonic-computing/
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@virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca 2026-04-28 23:13
@mike@thecanadian.social @devsimsek@universeodon.com OK, so it looks like regular linear algebra but using photonics (one of my PhD committee members pioneered in the field of photonics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sajeev_John) for much higher energy efficiency, presumably by trading digital exactness (hah! IEEE 754 is not exact) for analog computation. Their current produce is 8 GOPS (but does that mean GFLOPS?) and current GPUs are doing TFLOPS, but they seem confident about 1000-fold improvements every 1.5 years, so 2027 here they come!