Q/C Technologies, Inc. focuses its efforts on pioneering advanced quantum-class photonic computing and developing robust blockchain infrastructure. The company possesses the sole worldwide rights to LightSolver's revolutionary Light-speed Laser Processing Unit (LPU). This innovative optical and laser-driven computing system is engineered specifically for applications within the cryptocurrency sector, offering a substantial energy efficiency improvement of up to 90% while simultaneously outperforming both conventional GPUs and even quantum computing systems.
Q/C Technologies Announces Research Collaboration with Sandia National Laboratories, a $5 Billion U.S. Department of Energy Lab
Q/C Technologies announced a research collaboration with Sandia National Laboratories' Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies to advance its optical processing unit (OPU) initiative for AI inference.
The joint nanophotonics research aims to define a roadmap for optical AI hardware, addressing challenges such as nonlinear operations, memory, precision and optical loss in Q/C's OPU architecture.
Sandia is a U.S. Department of Energy lab with roughly 17,000 employees and an approximately $5 billion annual budget, lending scientific credibility to the pre-commercial initiative; no financial terms were disclosed.