It’s Time to Travel at Light Speed: Photonic Computing

Tuesday, June 23, 2026 4:20 PM to 4:40 PM · 20 min. (Europe/Berlin)
Hall H, Booth L01 - Ground Floor
HPC Solutions Forum
Emerging Computing TechnologiesEnergy Efficiency and SustainabilityNovel AlgorithmsOptimizing for Energy and PerformancePost Moore Computing

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Power consumption and computational density are major challenges facing today’s CMOS processor technology. There is another option, avoiding these challenges: photonic computing operates by modulating light with virtually no power consumption.
The presentation is a lightning speed journey from thin-film lithium niobate chips to photonic accelerators, to a software stack for photonics enabling advanced operations for AI and HPC. We will present how photonic computing opens the door to the next level of energy efficiency and computing algorithms.
HPC Solutions Forum Questions
What is most important: maximizing performance in a given power envelope, minimizing power costs, or being green? Do you have to choose?Discuss your solution in terms of benefits for specific use cases, rather than general horizontal terms like HPC, AI, performance, or scalability.We hear about CPUs and GPUs. Is there another choice that’s better?
Format
on-site
Q.ANTF40Stop Cooling. Start Photonic Computing. Q.ANT provides photonic accelerators for AI and high-performance computing, offering a scalable alternative to transistor-based systems. Its Native Processing Units (NPUs) perform mathematical operations directly on Thin-Film Lithium Niobate (TFLN) based photonic integrated circuits, enabling energy-efficient, high-performance co-processing for complex computational tasks. Q.ANT was founded in 2018. Its European headquarters is in Stuttgart, Germany, where it operates its own TFLN chip pilot line with IMS CHIPS, and it maintains a U.S. office in Austin, Texas. The company secured Europe’s largest Series A for photonic computing in 2025 and introduced its second-generation processor the same year, now installed and running at leading scientific computing centers (Leibniz Supercomputing Center and Jülich Supercomputing Center) with its first commercial deployment at cloud and hosting partner IONOS planned for 2026.

Registered attendees

AJ
Adam Jonsson
Technical coordinatorNDRE
AK
Adrian Koh
Product ManagerSuper Micro Computer, B.V.
AAM
Akeel Ather Medina
StudentEPCC

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