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We asked Nicholas Harris what "Passage" is. "It's a silicon photonics engine from Lightmatter. We leverage all the semiconductor manufacturing supply chain (like TSMC and GlobalFoundries) that’s used to build modern chips today.” "We help wire up massive data centers. We also just announced 114T bits per second (state... show more

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Nicholas Harris1 year ago

@LightmatterCo Great questions. An exciting time to be building hardware at @LightmatterCo !

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@theanalognick @LightmatterCo add @Extropic_AI chip stack with lightmatter's passage to accelerate compute completely

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