Lightelligence

Lightelligence is a technology company that specializes in photonic computing and communication solutions. The company offers a range of products including PACE (Photonic Arithmetic Computing Engine), HUMMINGBIRD ONOC, Photowave, and Moonstone. PACE is a fully integrated photonic computing platform featuring a 64x64 optical matrix multiplier, containing over 12,000 discrete photonic devices and operating at a system clock of 1GHz. It is designed to solve the Ising problem using photonic matrix multiplication. HUMMINGBIRD is an optical network-on-chip processor tailored for domain-specific AI workloads, integrating photonic and electronic dies into a single package to address the ‘memory wall’ issue. Its optical network-on-chip (oNOC) technology enables higher computing power utilization and density scaling through efficient communication and interconnect topologies. Photowave provides optical communications hardware for PCIe and Compute Express Link (CXL) connectivity, designed for composable data center architectures. Moonstone is a high-power, multi-channel DFB laser source that replaces multiple butterfly laser diodes, offering better operating temperature ranges and lower costs. Lightelligence has developed a photonic interposer technology that connects cores on an electronic application-specific IC (ASIC) in arbitrary, on-chip network topologies. The company’s technology focuses on high-throughput, low-latency, extended reach hardware foundations compatible with native compute protocols. Lightelligence’s products are utilized in various applications such as bioinformatics, route planning, material research and development, data communication, LiDAR, and optical and quantum computing. The company has offices in Boston, Hangzhou, Shanghai, and Nanjing.