Optical Processing Unit (OPU)
Photonic AI AcceleratorThe flagship product is the Optical Processing Unit (OPU), a photonic chip that integrates over one million micron-scale optical processing elements. It leverages metasurface modulators to perform matrix-vector multiplication, a fundamental operation in AI inference, using light instead of electricity to achieve superior performance.
- Offers up to 100x improvements in performance and energy efficiency over traditional GPUs
- Operates at 56 GHz, delivering 235 Peta Operations per Second (POPS) with a power consumption of 675 watts
- Features extremely small optical elements, enabling massive parallelism
- Designed to be compatible with standard silicon manufacturing processes, facilitating scalable production