Luminous Computing is building a new supercomputer built on photonics chips. The company has attracted $126 million in funding to date. It is still about 20 months away from production, though the company already has customers ready to go once they do. It’s not just using optics, you have to redesign the entire computer architecture from the ground up, says co-founder Marcus Gomez. Their latest A round was raised on March 3, 2022 for $105 million. Investors include Modern Venture Partners, Horsley Bridge Partners, Third Kind Venture Capital, 8090 Partners, Bill Gates, Neo, Alumni Partners, Strawberry Creek Ventures, Gigafund and others. It turns out that the bottleneck is communication between chips, between memories, between boards, between boxes and racks. . . .
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