27 Jan 2026

Building out the Photonic Stack

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—how

Moore’s Law has faltered just as the demand for compute has exploded. The path

forward isn’t smaller transistors. It’s assembling maximum-sized chips into datacenter-

scale computers, connected by light.

But here’s the thing about building the future: you can’t do it alone. And you can’t do it

without solving every layer of the stack.

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