Lightmatter

Lightmatter is leading the (r)evolution of computing, reducing its impact on our planet, and enabling the next great leaps in human progress.

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AI Infra Summit turns nine this year. It's where the entire industry, representing every layer of the AI stack, converges. Our Founder & CEO @theanalognick takes the main stage on day one for the panel, "Feeding the AI Factory: Solving Data Movement, Memory, and Storage Bottlenecks at Scale." This discussion will tackle the main scaling challenges of AI infrastructure: data movement and memory across chips, racks, and data centers.
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For the second year running, Lightmatter has been honored with the "Best Paper" at @IEEEHOTI. Our 2026 paper shows how photonic scale-up fabrics overcome the reach and bandwidth limits of copper to significantly reduce latency across short, medium, and long-context inference workloads. Congratulations to the authors!

View the HOTI paper presentation: https://t.co/CYsy8QFZ3W

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Lightmatter is heading to NY for @Citi's 2026 Global TMT Conference, one of the year's largest gatherings of investors and tech leaders. Founder & CEO Nick Harris and CFO Simona Jankowski will be on stage at 10:50 AM on Sept. 8 sharing their insights on how photonic interconnects and a new class of lasers are shaping next-gen AI infrastructure. If you're attending, we'd love to connect.
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Ever wonder how a cutting-edge silicon photonics chip goes from a wafer to a fully assembled data center rack? In this video, Lightmatter takes you inside the end-to-end manufacturing journey using the example of our Passage M1000 3D photonic interposer.
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AI infrastructure has a bottleneck: electrical interconnects can’t keep up with the bandwidth and reach frontier models need. In the latest episode of @lightwaveonline’s Broadband Pulse, Lightmatter Founder and CEO Nicholas Harris (@theanalognick) sits down with Sean Buckley to break down how photonic interconnects are solving this problem.

Listen to the full 12-minute episode: https://t.co/Vr3VaUqA2A

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Day one of @IEEEHOTI 2026 is in the books. Copper caps your scale-up domain at one rack. @Theanalognick and @ArulselvanMadhavan took the virtual stage to show what photonics does about it. Slides available at https://t.co/UXEV8NS8gM #HotI2026 #Photonics

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In case you missed the news, a new @OpenComputePrj (OCP) workstream has launched to create a shared reference architecture for the industry’s interconnect transition to silicon photonics. This effort brings together industry leaders to build a unified blueprint that mitigates ecosystem fragmentation, facilitates interoperability, and aligns with hyperscaler build flows. Watch Founder and CEO Nick Harris discuss how this standards initiative helps build the photonic foundation for next-gen AI infrastructure. @theanalognick @ConvergeDigest @NextGenInfra_io @WireRoy @AvidThink

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Electrical interconnects and pluggable optics can no longer keep pace with the bandwidth demands of frontier models and agentic AI workloads. At @SEMIconex Taiwan’s Silicon Photonics Global Summit, Nick Harris’ presentation will outline the photonics innovations, architectures, and roadmap required to drive faster AI training, prefill, and decode with next generation AI infrastructure. Learn more: https://t.co/IgtrzMHBPg @theanalognick

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Scaling agentic inference means longer contexts, more complex workloads and larger scale-up clusters. In this @IEEEHOTI talk, Arul Madhavan will show how photonic scale-up fabrics overcome copper and pluggable interconnect bottlenecks to enable significant reductions in inference prefill latency.

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19 industry leaders and innovators. A blueprint for the photonic future of AI.

A new @OpenComputePrj (OCP) workstream has been launched to build a shared reference architecture for photonic interconnects, turning CPO from concept into hyperscale reality. The blueprint is laid out in the whitepaper, “Architecture Vision: Open Silicon Photonics for AI Systems.”

Lightmatter is proud to have played a lead role in organizing this coalition and grateful to every member for the expertise and commitment they've brought to this work. Read more: https://t.co/2qPNpEBWaG

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In addition to advancing optics worldwide, @OpticaWorldwide highlights the pioneers shaping the future of light-based technology. Optica published a profile of Lightmatter CEO Nick Harris, recently named an Optica Fellow. It offers a fascinating look into Nick’s journey from groundbreaking academic research to founding the industry’s leading photonic interconnect and computing chip company that is shaping the future of next gen AI infrastructure. Check it out: https://t.co/n7cReUpPsP
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Compute scaled 1,000,000x in 30 years. Interconnect bandwidth 1,000x. That 10,000x gap is the AI bottleneck.

Inference consumes orders of magnitude more tokens globally on a daily basis: bandwidth, radix, hop count set the performance ceiling.

Frontier AI requires a silicon roadmap from NPO to CPO to 3D photonic interposer, BiDi DWDM links, enabled by VLSP laser.

Don’t miss @theanalognick sharing these insights at Hot Interconnects
(@IEEEHOTI). https://t.co/zDJz9P2hlI

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The theme of this year’s OCP APAC Summit is “Leading the Future of AI.” Don’t miss Bijan Nowroozi’s talk, describing the open ecosystems and silicon photonics standards needed for hyperscale performance and interoperability in the AI era.
Learn more: https://t.co/HYmZg63W2x
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Lightmatter took 1st Place at the DAC Poster Gladiator Competition!

Out of 20+ top semiconductor finalists, our Agile Silicon RTL-to-GDSII framework took top honors at #DAC63. Huge congrats to Moira Feng for bringing home the shield & sword trophy, and shoutout to Jon Elmhurst, Rishi Anand, Aadvivian Singh, and our Digital Engineering team for driving the future of optical computing!

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Our CEO Nick Harris will deliver a talk titled “Photonics Is the Future of Computing” at UC Berkeley on Saturday, August 1 at 10:15 AM PT as part of the Agentic AI Summit 2026 (Compass session 1), hosted by Berkeley RDI and Responsible Decentralized Intelligence Foundation. The event brings together leaders to explore, discuss, and collaboratively shape the future of AI and Agentic AI.
Register to join the free livestream: https://t.co/fN4KoTT0D2
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Happy #NationalInternDay to the incredible cohort shaping the future of photonic computing at Lightmatter!

When we welcomed our 31 summer interns, we promised they wouldn't be watching from the sidelines. True to our word, we’ve handed them the keys—placing immense trust in their talents and giving them the opportunity to work on high-impact projects. To our summer cohort: thank you for your curiosity, relentless drive, and the bold fresh perspectives you bring to our mission every day. Keep pushing boundaries!