Lightmatter

Lightmatter is building the photonic infrastructure powering the next generation of AI computing. The company develops advanced interconnects, lasers, and packaging technologies that use light instead of traditional electrical signals to move data faster and more efficiently through large-scale AI systems.  

 

As AI models continue to grow, data movement has become one of the biggest challenges in modern computing. Lightmatter’s Passage™ photonic interconnect platform and Guide® light engines are designed to overcome these limits by delivering ultra-high bandwidth, low latency, and improved energy efficiency for AI supercomputers and hyperscale data centers.  

Headquartered in Mountain View, California, Lightmatter works with leading partners across the semiconductor and AI ecosystem to advance the future of computing. The company’s long-term vision extends beyond networking to a complete photonic computing stack, enabling AI infrastructure to scale from thousands to millions of processors connected at the speed of light.

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    Hot Interconnect 2026

    21 May 2026 Lightmatter Nick Harris, Ph.D. Founder and CEO
    Hot Interconnects 2026

    Building out the Photonic Stack

    27 Jan 2026 Lightmatter Nick Harris, Ph.D. Founder and CEO
    The fundamental architecture of computers is changing.In a previous post, I wrote about how we’re approaching the final process node—howMoore’s Law has faltered just as the demand for compute has expl …

    Wide and Parallel Wins

    15 Mar 2026 Lightmatter N i c k H a r r i s , F o u n d e r a n d C E O , L i g h t m a t t e r
    Last week, the Optical Compute Interconnect (OCI) Multi-Source Agreement (MSA)published its v1.0 line interface specification—a 24-page document co-authored byNVIDIA, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Broadcom …

    Scale-Up is a Problem Made for Photonics

    02 Jun 2026 Lightmatter Nick Harris, Ph.D. Founder and CEO
    NVIDIA’s announcement at GTC Taipei 2026 that NVLink Fusion will extend to photonicinterconnects marks a pivotal moment where AI infrastructure scaling meets theinevitable demands of physics. Lightmat …
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