imec.xpand co-leads Series A of Q.ANT.

We're excited to announce our investment in the Series A round of Q.ANT, a pioneering photonic computing company based in Stuttgart, Germany.

50x computing speed - 30x energy efficiency

As AI infrastructure scales globally, traditional chip technology reaches its physical limits. The performance stagnates, and electricity demand will reach untenable levels. Q.ANT is addressing this issue with a radically different paradigm: computing with light instead of electricity, which opens the door to significantly higher performance and energy savings.

In just five years, Q.ANT has brought to maturity what experts have pursued for decades: the world’s first commercial photonic processor for real-world AI and other complex, data-intensive tasks that require significant computational power.

We are very excited about the transformative potential of Q.ANT's technology and its capacity to redefine the future of computing. As the world enters an era in which AI models grow increasingly complex and demand more computing power, Q.ANT offers a disruptive alternative to traditional processing methods. Through the power of photonics, they are not only boosting performance, but also tackling a key challenge of our time: the high energy consumption of data-heavy computing.

You can read the full press release on Q.ANT's website.