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Optical components

Optical chipmaker focuses on high-performance computing

07 Apr 2022 Hamish Johnston
Taken from the 2022 Physics World Optics and Photonics Briefing.

Founded in 2017, US-based Lightelligence develops optical chips for high-performance computing applications. Co-founders Yichen Shen and Spencer Powers talk to Physics World’s Hamish Johnston about how the company spun out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), its latest product and their plans for Lightelligence’s future

Yichen Shen and Spencer Powers of Lightelligence
Optical accelerators Yichen Shen (left) and Spencer Powers of Lightelligence. (Courtesy: Lightelligence)
How did Lightelligence get going? Spencer Powers: I was an MBA student at MIT in 2015 when I met Yic

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