Funding Details
- Awarder
- SemiNews
- Date Award
- December 27, 2024
- Vertical
- Photonic Computing
- Funding URL
- View Funding Page
Company Info
- Founding Year
- 2024
- Traction
- None
- Organizations Involved
- UC Berkeley, MIT
- Founders
- Zaijun Chen, Ryan Hamerly, Mengjie Yu
- Company Description
- Opticore is a photonic computing company developing optical processing units (OPUs) that perform computational tasks using light and waveguides instead of electrical components. This innovative approach allows for computation at significantly lower energy costs and higher clock speeds, addressing the memory bottlenecks in CMOS electronics and enabling the processing of billions of parameters in a single chip.
- Market
- AI Computing
- Location
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Fremont,
CA,
US
- Coinvestors
- Sagax Capital, Jetha Global, Bioeconomy
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