Supply chain / Photonic
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A Stuttgart company building photonic processors that do certain mathematical operations with light rather than transistors. Its Native Processing Server is sold as a photonic compute product, backed by an open-source software kit.
- Type
- Company
- Where it sits
- A route to lower-energy AI and simulation maths, but today a specialist accelerator reached mainly through research centres.
- Constraint
- Hardware access appears limited: the company page says software written with its kit will run on the photonic hardware as access opens.
- Maturity
- Early commercial
What we checked
- The company's page says its photonic servers are deployed at two German research institutions, LRZ and Jülich. (source)
- An open-source software development kit with C/C++ and Python interfaces and a simulation backend is listed as publicly available, with a launch noted for September 2026. (source)
Written by ComputeFinder from public pages on 2 October 2026. Company statements are the company's own, not independently checked, and reported items are marked as such. Not yet reviewed line by line by a second person. If something is wrong, tell us.