Physics / mechanism
Competitive landscape
Electronic ASICs (Nvidia H100, Groq LPU, Cerebras) dominate at scale, offering 8–16-bit precision with mature toolchains. Photonic cores trade precision and programmability for energy efficiency at high bandwidth. In-memory compute (SRAM/DRAM MAC, e.g. Mythic, Untether) occupies the mid-ground. Photonic vs. electronic vs. hybrid comparison:
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Frontier (open questions)
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